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+• Introduction to Habakkuk 3
+• Story of John Newton's transformation from a slaver to a minister
+• Similar transformation story of the Apostle Paul
+• Explanation that these stories illustrate the power of God's transforming work in individuals' lives
+• Reading and explanation of Habakkuk 3, verses 1-17
+• Habakkuk's struggles with God over injustice and suffering
+• The importance of expressing complaints and frustrations to God
+• God's ability to handle anger, yelling, and challenges from His people
+• Habakkuk's transformation from protest to prayer in chapter 3
+• The need for a change of heart rather than circumstances when dealing with adversity
+• Habakkuk's encounter with God changes his perspective and actions
+• The relationship between a changed heart and the responsibility to remember rightly and view life through virtues
+• Habakkuk learns to trust God's plan, offers prayers of trust and confidence, and grows in reverence and awe for who God is
+• The importance of remembering what God has done, looking at past deeds through a sovereign worldview
+• Remembering God's fame, deeds, and sovereignty over creation
+• Understanding that there are details beyond human comprehension but trusting that they are enough to drive virtues and action.
+• Habakkuk mentions plagues, pestilence, Cushan, and Midian to situate God's redemption in a historical reality.
+• The prayer situates Habakkuk in the region where Mount Sinai is located, referencing God meeting Moses and the people at Sinai.
+• The place names in the prayer have a poetic and theological account of God's working in the world to deliver Israel from Egypt.
+• Habakkuk sees God carrying David through battles against the Philistines, securing victory for the Israelites in Hezekiah's time, and punishing Sennacherib.
+• The unjust leaders of Judah will face justice from God in exile to Babylon, with Babylon then facing justice in the form of Cyrus the Persian.
+• Joseph's story and the concept that God can turn evil into good
+• The stories of Job and Paul, who trusted in God despite suffering
+• The idea that God is able to overcome even death and transform it into a source of salvation
+• The importance of remembering that God knows us individually and has control over our lives
+• The need for people to be present with each other and support one another in their struggles
+• Viewing life through the lens of valued virtues, which helps us see our circumstances in a new light
+• Habakkuk's message of hope, faith, and love as virtues to navigate life's struggles
+• The importance of remembering rightly and being part of a community that does the same
+• God speaking directly through scripture, emphasizing the language of virtue and vice
+• Trusting in God's plan and purpose for establishing his kingdom and giving oneself in trust
+• Worshiping God even in times of wrecked moments with a changed heart
+• The importance of sharing one's story of transformation through faith in Jesus
+• Sharing the gospel with others, including family, friends, and neighbors
+• Overcoming struggles and darkness by holding on to faith in Jesus
+• God's presence and love being available even in times of hopelessness and doubt

A Changed Heart, Not a Change of Circumstances (Sermon)_transcript.txt

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+[0.00 --> 7.62]  We're going to take some time today and look at Habakkuk 3.
+[8.04 --> 10.60]  We're going to read verse 1 to 16, and we'll get to that in a moment.
+[10.70 --> 17.00]  First, let me just acknowledge that what you're seeing on screen this week looks a little different than what you have seen in the past.
+[17.58 --> 32.10]  We are ever adapting and trying to find ways to better communicate and better translate the message across the air and through your screens into your living room and find ways to do that well.
+[32.30 --> 35.88]  And so we've put together this side set.
+[36.00 --> 38.44]  I'm still here in church, in the sanctuary.
+[38.64 --> 42.32]  There are, you know, nine other people here with me as well.
+[42.32 --> 48.78]  But it just looks a little different, and we hope it looks a little bit better as you are sitting where you are.
+[49.84 --> 58.38]  Before we read together, I just want to introduce kind of where we're going, and then we'll read so you can see that along the way.
+[58.64 --> 60.46]  And do that with a bit of a story.
+[60.58 --> 64.06]  Now, some of you know the story of John Newton.
+[64.64 --> 70.86]  John Newton was an 18th century sailor and slaver on a ship called the Greyhound.
+[70.86 --> 80.18]  Now, at one time in the mid-18th century, they were sailing in the North Atlantic, and a storm rose up and had all but wrecked the ship.
+[80.28 --> 93.48]  The masts were broken, the sails were torn, and all of the sailors had spent hours and days using the pumps, the crank pumps, to try and empty out the hull of the ship, of the water that was gathering.
+[93.48 --> 107.70]  Newton has been exhausted from days of this labor, and so instead of taking a break, he ends up tying himself to the helm of the ship so that he might steer it, even as he struggles with exhaustion.
+[108.66 --> 112.08]  Now, Newton's story is a special one.
+[112.08 --> 121.44]  Newton, he had a reputation for profanity and coarseness and debauchery that shocked even other sailors during that day.
+[122.08 --> 125.26]  He was known as the Great Blasphemer.
+[125.26 --> 133.96]  Now, the story goes, actually, that Newton was an evangelist for unbelief at this time in his life.
+[135.16 --> 142.08]  But on that day, strapped to the helm of that ship, God did something to Newton.
+[142.08 --> 151.68]  And from that moment forward, and you can read about this in his journals as they tell a story of a man who is transformed and slowly being transformed.
+[152.14 --> 162.06]  And so he began to read the Bible regularly, and he began to read books published by other Christian authors to help teach him faith and discipleship and what that might be like.
+[162.06 --> 169.78]  And it took a few years, yes, but after a few years, he left the slaving industry and became a tide surveyor in Liverpool.
+[169.78 --> 177.72]  And then, in 1764, at the age of 39, which is just two years older than me, he became a minister.
+[178.92 --> 188.88]  Now, for the evening services and the little church that he served in Olney, he would publish hymns with his friend and fellow parishioner, William Cowper.
+[189.60 --> 195.40]  One of the hymns that they published has gone on to infamy, and it's called Amazing Grace.
+[195.40 --> 205.24]  God took a cussing, slave-trading, degenerate of a man, changed his heart, and turned him into a gospel preacher.
+[206.70 --> 208.32]  This is what God does.
+[209.70 --> 209.90]  Right?
+[209.96 --> 212.46]  Think of the story from the Bible of the Apostle Paul.
+[213.04 --> 213.22]  Right?
+[213.24 --> 219.86]  The Apostle Paul was, quite literally, in today's terms, a state-sponsored murdering terrorist.
+[219.86 --> 228.82]  And God made him into the greatest missionary that the world has ever known, and used him to author more than half of the New Testament.
+[230.32 --> 233.36]  In different ways, this is my story.
+[234.42 --> 239.44]  In a different way from that, this is your story, if you believe.
+[240.30 --> 240.48]  Right?
+[240.52 --> 242.64]  These are stories of transformation.
+[243.12 --> 243.22]  Right?
+[243.24 --> 245.98]  The gospel of Jesus transforms you.
+[245.98 --> 248.42]  Jesus changes your heart.
+[249.70 --> 250.84]  And that's this story.
+[251.54 --> 257.80]  That's the story that we're going to see and read the fruit of in Habakkuk 3.
+[258.10 --> 261.32]  And so if you have a Bible in front of you, I encourage you to open that up.
+[261.92 --> 263.22]  Turn to Habakkuk 3.
+[263.34 --> 266.12]  We will look more closely at some of the verses there.
+[266.70 --> 268.60]  It will be on the screen as I read it.
+[268.60 --> 274.46]  But of course, I always encourage you to have one open in front of you, or on in front of you, if you use your phone.
+[274.46 --> 278.66]  This is from Habakkuk 3, beginning at verse 1.
+[280.18 --> 284.30]  A prayer of Habakkuk the prophet on Shigenoth.
+[284.30 --> 306.96]  God came from Teman, the Holy One from Mount Paran.
+[306.96 --> 311.12]  His glory covered the heavens, and his praise filled the earth.
+[311.98 --> 314.06]  His splendor was like the sunrise.
+[314.44 --> 317.24]  Rays flashed from his hand where his power was hidden.
+[318.38 --> 320.06]  Plague went before him.
+[320.56 --> 322.10]  Pestilence followed his steps.
+[322.42 --> 323.96]  He stood and shook the earth.
+[324.28 --> 326.24]  He looked and made the nations tremble.
+[326.54 --> 330.46]  The ancient mountains crumbled and the age-old hills collapsed.
+[331.46 --> 333.84]  His ways are eternal.
+[333.84 --> 340.32]  I saw the tents of Cushan in distress, the dwellings of Midian in anguish.
+[341.24 --> 343.24]  Were you angry with the rivers, O Lord?
+[343.30 --> 344.96]  Was your wrath against the streams?
+[345.24 --> 349.94]  Did you rage against the sea when you rode with your horses and your victorious chariots?
+[350.14 --> 351.70]  You uncovered your bow.
+[351.88 --> 353.30]  You called for many arrows.
+[353.86 --> 355.70]  You split the earth with rivers.
+[355.86 --> 357.70]  The mountains saw you and writhed.
+[358.04 --> 359.58]  Torrents of water swept by.
+[359.58 --> 362.68]  The deep roared and lifted its waves on high.
+[363.88 --> 369.32]  Sun and moon stood still in the heavens at the glint of your flying arrows,
+[369.54 --> 372.08]  at the lightning of your flashing spear.
+[372.98 --> 377.56]  In wrath you strode through the earth, and in anger you threshed the nations.
+[377.98 --> 382.50]  You came out to deliver your people, to save your anointed one.
+[382.50 --> 385.48]  You crushed the leader of the land of wickedness.
+[385.60 --> 387.74]  You stripped him from head to foot.
+[388.62 --> 391.28]  With his own spear you pierced his head.
+[391.46 --> 396.70]  When his warriors stormed out to scatter us, gloating as though about to devour the wretched
+[396.70 --> 402.80]  who were in hiding, you trampled the sea with your horses, churning the great waters.
+[402.80 --> 408.12]  I heard, and my heart pounded.
+[408.38 --> 410.38]  My lips quivered at the sound.
+[410.50 --> 413.58]  Decay crept into my bones, and my legs trembled.
+[414.50 --> 424.14]  Yet, I will wait patiently for the day of calamity to come on the nation invading us.
+[425.08 --> 426.44]  This is the word of the Lord.
+[426.44 --> 426.50]  Amen.
+[432.80 --> 436.68]  As I said, this is a story of change.
+[438.14 --> 442.52]  And in chapter 3, there is a change that takes place.
+[442.56 --> 447.18]  With your Bibles, look back to chapter 1, the very first words of the book, right?
+[447.26 --> 448.92]  Chapter 1, verse 1 says,
+[449.30 --> 451.96]  An oracle Habakkuk received.
+[453.00 --> 456.24]  And then, if you've been with us for the last couple weeks, right,
+[456.24 --> 461.58]  you've seen that Habakkuk expresses himself in the form of two complaints.
+[461.58 --> 466.62]  And as we've seen, he's pretty bold and brazen in those complaints.
+[466.66 --> 469.32]  And he's really struggling, right?
+[469.34 --> 473.34]  He complains, and he cries out, and he calls for justice.
+[473.76 --> 480.26]  At one point in the story, in the text, he even seems to challenge God, right, to call him out.
+[483.32 --> 489.60]  And in case it hasn't been clear over these last few weeks, God can handle that.
+[489.60 --> 493.08]  God wants your complaints.
+[494.30 --> 495.72]  His shoulders are big enough.
+[496.56 --> 497.82]  He can handle your challenge.
+[498.16 --> 499.42]  He can handle your frustrations.
+[499.54 --> 500.70]  He can handle your anger.
+[501.34 --> 507.42]  And so, like Habakkuk, like Job, like so many of the psalmists that we can read, give it to him.
+[508.38 --> 508.62]  Right?
+[509.02 --> 511.86]  If you're mad at God, tell him.
+[511.86 --> 515.48]  If you don't get it, ask him.
+[516.14 --> 516.36]  Right?
+[516.38 --> 523.02]  If you are righteously indignant, or perhaps it's better to say, if you're right pissed off, yell at God.
+[524.08 --> 525.26]  He can take it.
+[526.24 --> 527.40]  He can handle it.
+[527.72 --> 527.92]  Right?
+[527.96 --> 529.14]  He is big enough.
+[529.28 --> 530.24]  I promise you.
+[530.24 --> 533.98]  And let's be clear, okay?
+[535.54 --> 541.18]  Yelling at God is the language of faith for those facing injustice.
+[542.88 --> 546.74]  Yelling at God is the language of faith for the brokenhearted.
+[548.68 --> 552.76]  Yelling at God is better than walking away in apathy.
+[552.76 --> 564.84]  By analogy, I would rather my friend get loudly angry at me and yell at me than seethe in silence and never talk to me.
+[566.82 --> 571.20]  But, but know this.
+[571.70 --> 572.52]  Remember this.
+[573.02 --> 573.16]  Right?
+[573.22 --> 578.76]  If God is big enough to handle your anger and your yelling, and he is.
+[578.76 --> 579.26]  Right?
+[579.30 --> 587.96]  If God is big enough to handle your anger and your yelling, that means he is also big enough to have reasons beyond your comprehension.
+[589.06 --> 589.60]  Right?
+[589.62 --> 590.86]  It can only be both.
+[591.78 --> 592.10]  Right?
+[592.12 --> 601.68]  You can't complain to God that he should be doing something different, but then reject the possibility that God is, in fact, doing something different.
+[601.68 --> 610.00]  I think that's the lesson that Habakkuk has learned by the time he gets to chapter 3.
+[610.96 --> 611.44]  Right?
+[611.48 --> 616.50]  That's the lesson that Habakkuk has learned from listening to God speak in chapter 2.
+[617.52 --> 617.92]  Right?
+[618.00 --> 621.74]  As we said, there's something that has changed here.
+[621.84 --> 625.12]  Something has changed between chapter 2 and chapter 3.
+[625.38 --> 625.62]  Right?
+[625.64 --> 630.86]  The book starts with his complaints and with God's oracle, and then chapter 3 is something else.
+[630.86 --> 633.06]  And look at the superscription.
+[633.44 --> 633.60]  Right?
+[633.66 --> 635.84]  It's verse 1 in the text that we read.
+[635.90 --> 639.14]  Now, real quick, let me just put on my Bible teacher hat for a moment.
+[639.22 --> 639.86]  Let's just pause.
+[640.32 --> 642.80]  I don't know what your Bibles might say.
+[642.98 --> 649.98]  Mine, the NIV, has a heading that begins chapter 3 saying Habakkuk's Prayer.
+[650.04 --> 652.06]  That's written there in italics.
+[652.22 --> 653.72]  That's put in there by the editors.
+[654.52 --> 654.64]  Right?
+[654.68 --> 658.06]  That's not part of the text as God's infallible word.
+[658.10 --> 659.36]  That's put in there to help us.
+[659.36 --> 665.84]  But verse 1, right, what's called the superscript, that's part of the authoritative text.
+[665.96 --> 669.44]  And there we read a prayer of Habakkuk.
+[670.40 --> 676.00]  And I want to suggest to you that that line is God telling us that this is something different.
+[677.56 --> 678.06]  Right?
+[678.08 --> 683.44]  That Habakkuk's posture has changed from protest to prayer.
+[683.44 --> 684.44]  Right?
+[684.48 --> 689.04]  From wrecked and whining to wrecked and worshiping.
+[689.92 --> 690.04]  Right?
+[690.10 --> 696.24]  Habakkuk has had a change of heart and not a change of circumstances.
+[697.56 --> 704.82]  Habakkuk has had an encounter with the living God speaking directly to his heart that affects how he sees everything else.
+[704.82 --> 711.42]  And not just how he sees everything else, but what and how he does everything else.
+[711.42 --> 711.70]  Right?
+[711.74 --> 715.92]  In short, an encounter with the living God changes everything.
+[715.92 --> 721.88]  And that's what this word is.
+[722.52 --> 723.20]  Right?
+[723.28 --> 730.04]  God speaking into your life and situation to give you new eyes to see by and a new purpose to live for.
+[730.60 --> 731.22]  Right?
+[731.26 --> 733.90]  That's what this worship is for.
+[734.46 --> 735.10]  Right?
+[735.16 --> 741.46]  For God carrying you into his presence by the power of the Spirit and breathing new life into your dry bones.
+[741.46 --> 743.64]  That's who church is.
+[743.64 --> 743.96]  Right?
+[744.02 --> 753.70]  A community of broken people raised up in new birth into a living hope with the mission of God coursing through us and out to all the world by us.
+[754.58 --> 756.90]  That's what's happening in Habakkuk.
+[757.24 --> 761.48]  His heart is being changed with an encounter with God.
+[761.58 --> 761.66]  Right?
+[761.74 --> 769.04]  Habakkuk is learning to trust God's ultimately unsearchable plan for establishing his kingdom.
+[769.04 --> 780.20]  And in his learning to trust in God's plan, he begins to offer a prayer of trust and a prayer of confidence that grows with reverence and awe at who God is.
+[781.40 --> 784.14]  And that's our goal as we dig into this text.
+[784.66 --> 784.78]  Right?
+[784.86 --> 792.02]  Learning how to trust God's plan and purpose for establishing his kingdom and giving ourselves in trust and confidence.
+[792.18 --> 797.18]  And thereby increasing our capacity for reverence and awe.
+[797.18 --> 798.98]  So we're going to see that.
+[799.30 --> 800.48]  We're going to dig in here.
+[800.60 --> 804.52]  And in these verses of Habakkuk, I want to show you two things.
+[805.22 --> 812.42]  And so in the time that we have left, part one of that will be what I'm calling the responsibility to remember rightly.
+[813.10 --> 819.02]  And then part two will be viewing our lives through valued virtues.
+[819.02 --> 825.30]  So the responsibility to remember rightly and then viewing our lives through valued virtues.
+[825.66 --> 831.82]  And before we dig too far into that, I want you to quickly notice a sort of theological principle operating here.
+[831.94 --> 832.14]  Right?
+[832.18 --> 841.52]  There's a reciprocal relationship between a changed heart and the responsibility to remember rightly and to view our lives through these virtues.
+[841.52 --> 843.26]  And what I mean is this.
+[844.04 --> 844.32]  Right?
+[844.40 --> 846.88]  First, God changes your heart.
+[846.96 --> 849.42]  That is his gift of regeneration.
+[850.02 --> 850.20]  Right?
+[850.22 --> 855.52]  He changes your heart and with that comes the responsibility of faith and the formation of faith.
+[855.52 --> 855.96]  Right?
+[856.00 --> 862.70]  We respond to God changing our heart by digging into his word, by worshiping him in life and with the church.
+[862.70 --> 870.62]  And we respond by becoming part of a community of heart changed people who are learning to view our lives through these virtues.
+[871.58 --> 875.30]  But at the same time, the reverse works as well.
+[875.30 --> 876.06]  Right?
+[876.22 --> 884.58]  As we learn to view life through certain virtues, as we learn practices of remembering rightly, our hearts are changed.
+[886.08 --> 891.92]  In theological terms, what we're talking about is the relationship between justification and sanctification.
+[891.92 --> 895.38]  Justification happens in response to the word.
+[895.82 --> 899.58]  Sanctification happens in responding to the word.
+[900.38 --> 900.58]  Right?
+[900.64 --> 908.42]  Your heart is changed and your heart is changing through discipline and discipleship being transformed by the Holy Spirit.
+[910.04 --> 919.56]  And so, what does it mean for us and Habakkuk with the responsibility to remember rightly?
+[919.56 --> 923.66]  What is the responsibility to remember rightly?
+[923.82 --> 926.02]  And so, look at verse 2.
+[926.38 --> 927.42]  The first part of verse 2.
+[928.32 --> 928.98]  Habakkuk says,
+[929.46 --> 931.50]  Lord, I have heard of your fame.
+[931.70 --> 933.96]  I stand in awe of your deeds.
+[934.34 --> 935.10]  Oh, Lord.
+[935.38 --> 935.56]  Right?
+[935.60 --> 938.40]  I've heard of your fame and I stand in awe of your deeds.
+[938.70 --> 942.28]  Habakkuk is remembering what God has done.
+[942.28 --> 955.82]  He is learning to look at part of what God has done in the past through the lens of a worldview and a theology that says God is sovereign over all creation.
+[955.82 --> 959.84]  That he is big enough to handle our anger and our frustration.
+[959.84 --> 965.52]  But also, that he is big enough to have a purpose beyond our comprehension.
+[965.52 --> 968.78]  That's what it means to remember rightly.
+[969.40 --> 969.60]  Right?
+[969.64 --> 974.82]  That even as we see part of the picture, we know that there are details beyond our sight lines.
+[975.60 --> 975.80]  Right?
+[975.84 --> 981.96]  Even if we could see those details, right, we wouldn't understand them or be able to make sense of them.
+[981.96 --> 986.54]  But what we can see, what we can remember is enough.
+[986.54 --> 996.96]  What we can rightly remember is proof enough, is cause enough to drive us to the virtues that we'll outline in a moment.
+[997.74 --> 1002.48]  Now, quickly, let's look at what Habakkuk is remembering.
+[1003.42 --> 1005.92]  In verse 3, he prays,
+[1005.92 --> 1009.56]  God came from T-Man, the Holy One from Mount Peren.
+[1009.96 --> 1013.88]  Now, T-Man is a city or a region in southern Edom.
+[1013.88 --> 1020.40]  Mount Peren, the location is not precisely known, but based on the stories and the general references,
+[1020.88 --> 1022.88]  we know that it is to the southeast of Israel.
+[1023.72 --> 1030.60]  Actually, we have a map that we can put up on the screen for you that will help you see these place names
+[1030.60 --> 1035.36]  and the purpose, once you see them all together, of mentioning them.
+[1036.50 --> 1039.14]  So with that map, you can see in verse 5,
+[1039.14 --> 1044.28]  quickly, Habakkuk mentions plagues and pestilence that go before him.
+[1044.28 --> 1049.36]  It's probably recalling of Egypt, right, and the ten plagues in the Exodus story.
+[1049.94 --> 1052.54]  Verse 7 mentions Cushan and Midian.
+[1053.22 --> 1058.54]  Cushan is a part of the southern Transjordan region, same with Midian.
+[1058.54 --> 1067.54]  In fact, Midian, or at least two certain Midianites, is where Moses flees from Pharaoh
+[1067.54 --> 1070.42]  when God speaks to him in the burning bush.
+[1071.72 --> 1077.78]  Now, take that all together, and what Habakkuk is seeing, what he is remembering,
+[1078.34 --> 1083.12]  is God coming from the region that on your map there is in that little circle, right?
+[1083.12 --> 1086.88]  The region where Mount Sinai is located.
+[1088.06 --> 1090.70]  All right, Sinai, if you remember the story, if you know the story,
+[1090.76 --> 1094.18]  is where God meets Moses, where God meets the people.
+[1094.36 --> 1097.32]  Sinai is the climax of the story of the Exodus.
+[1097.56 --> 1102.74]  Sinai is the place where, for the first time in generations upon generations,
+[1102.74 --> 1108.56]  the people see the glory of God, where the glory of God descends and dwells with its people,
+[1108.56 --> 1113.72]  where it did so and affected the face of Moses every time that he came into God's presence,
+[1113.78 --> 1117.66]  such that he radiated God's glory and had to wear a veil, right?
+[1117.66 --> 1128.62]  These place names in the prayer situate Habakkuk in a historical reality of God's redemption before his people.
+[1128.62 --> 1136.42]  And then, as if buoyed by remembering rightly,
+[1137.60 --> 1143.66]  Habakkuk switches almost into this beautiful poem in verses 8 through 15
+[1143.66 --> 1145.62]  that we're not going to look at line by line,
+[1145.74 --> 1148.44]  but I encourage you to come back to it sometime this week.
+[1148.84 --> 1153.88]  And it comes across as a sort of description of reality
+[1153.88 --> 1161.18]  as Habakkuk is almost seeing the world and world history through God's eyes, right?
+[1161.20 --> 1165.14]  It's a poetic and theological account of God's working in the world
+[1165.14 --> 1169.70]  to deliver Israel from Egypt and from the armies of Pharaoh who chased them.
+[1170.42 --> 1173.62]  Now, in this, Habakkuk might also be seeing,
+[1173.62 --> 1178.16]  as history sort of layers on itself when God stands above time,
+[1178.56 --> 1183.62]  is also seeing God carrying David through battles against the Philistines
+[1183.62 --> 1187.68]  or God securing victory for the Israelites in the time of Hezekiah
+[1187.68 --> 1190.78]  and the advancing armies of Sennacherib,
+[1190.90 --> 1193.62]  who marched through Israel towards Jerusalem
+[1193.62 --> 1196.82]  only to be utterly destroyed by an angel of the Lord
+[1196.82 --> 1199.44]  coming into their camp as they gathered around the walls
+[1199.44 --> 1202.78]  such that 185,000 soldiers were killed.
+[1203.54 --> 1209.38]  And Sennacherib eventually went back to his home city of Nineveh
+[1209.38 --> 1213.40]  where he was a leader and he was killed by his sons.
+[1213.62 --> 1215.56]  As he worshipped in a temple.
+[1216.32 --> 1220.18]  And that could be the referent for verse 14 of our text, right?
+[1220.44 --> 1221.18]  Where it says,
+[1221.40 --> 1224.16]  With his own spear you pierced his head.
+[1225.28 --> 1225.52]  Right?
+[1225.56 --> 1227.68]  An enemy of God killed by his own sons.
+[1227.84 --> 1230.20]  With his own spear you pierced his head.
+[1230.64 --> 1231.56]  Either way,
+[1231.74 --> 1234.12]  what you see in the grand scheme of things
+[1234.12 --> 1236.40]  and the big drama that is redemption
+[1236.40 --> 1238.72]  focused here through the people of Israel
+[1238.72 --> 1241.26]  Israel is that Pharaoh received justice.
+[1241.46 --> 1243.90]  God protected and provided for David
+[1243.90 --> 1246.06]  and Sennacherib knew punishment.
+[1246.50 --> 1246.62]  Right?
+[1246.70 --> 1247.68]  And so, too,
+[1248.04 --> 1250.06]  will Judah in Habakkuk's day.
+[1250.60 --> 1250.76]  Right?
+[1250.80 --> 1253.00]  The unjust leaders of Judah
+[1253.00 --> 1254.96]  and from the temple and religious system
+[1254.96 --> 1257.58]  will face justice from God
+[1257.58 --> 1259.38]  in the form of exile to Babylon.
+[1259.38 --> 1260.76]  And then greater still,
+[1260.92 --> 1261.28]  Babylon,
+[1261.56 --> 1262.88]  used as an instrument of God's tool,
+[1262.98 --> 1266.40]  will face justice in the form of Cyrus the Persian.
+[1266.86 --> 1267.12]  Right?
+[1267.20 --> 1269.48]  Down and down it goes through history.
+[1269.62 --> 1271.18]  God guiding the way
+[1271.18 --> 1274.80]  to reveal his plan and purpose of redemption.
+[1275.20 --> 1275.44]  You see,
+[1275.54 --> 1277.24]  we may not know the details,
+[1277.24 --> 1280.48]  but we have it even better
+[1280.48 --> 1283.20]  because we know the God
+[1283.20 --> 1284.90]  who controls the details.
+[1286.58 --> 1288.54]  I think about the story, right?
+[1288.74 --> 1289.76]  Consider Joseph.
+[1290.12 --> 1290.84]  Joseph, who,
+[1291.12 --> 1292.34]  as a young man,
+[1292.50 --> 1293.80]  a pretty arrogant young man,
+[1293.92 --> 1294.14]  sure,
+[1294.28 --> 1296.42]  was beaten and abused
+[1296.42 --> 1297.82]  and left for dead
+[1297.82 --> 1299.40]  but then sold into slavery
+[1299.40 --> 1300.52]  by his brothers.
+[1301.24 --> 1301.56]  Joseph,
+[1301.72 --> 1302.86]  who was falsely accused
+[1302.86 --> 1303.76]  of horrible crimes
+[1303.76 --> 1304.68]  and thrown into prison
+[1304.68 --> 1306.62]  and sat there for years
+[1306.62 --> 1308.90]  Joseph,
+[1309.12 --> 1309.36]  who,
+[1310.50 --> 1312.18]  when he finally got to meet his brothers,
+[1313.32 --> 1313.78]  said,
+[1314.34 --> 1316.34]  what you intended for evil,
+[1316.94 --> 1319.10]  God intended for good.
+[1319.84 --> 1321.14]  I think of Job, right?
+[1321.22 --> 1321.46]  Job,
+[1321.56 --> 1323.28]  who lost everything,
+[1324.26 --> 1324.40]  right?
+[1324.48 --> 1324.76]  Job,
+[1324.86 --> 1326.92]  who struggled in innumerable
+[1326.92 --> 1328.82]  and immeasurable ways
+[1328.82 --> 1329.44]  and still,
+[1329.58 --> 1331.04]  after all of that struggling,
+[1331.46 --> 1331.78]  said,
+[1331.90 --> 1334.10]  I know that you can do all things,
+[1334.10 --> 1336.58]  that no plan of yours can be thwarted.
+[1337.62 --> 1338.82]  Or to think of Paul,
+[1338.92 --> 1340.54]  who we've already made reference to,
+[1340.98 --> 1341.12]  who,
+[1341.24 --> 1341.46]  Paul,
+[1341.58 --> 1344.02]  who regularly faced death,
+[1344.14 --> 1345.60]  who regularly stood opposed
+[1345.60 --> 1346.30]  to the religious
+[1346.30 --> 1348.34]  and political authorities,
+[1348.34 --> 1349.04]  who says,
+[1349.50 --> 1349.74]  no,
+[1350.00 --> 1351.30]  in all things
+[1351.30 --> 1353.02]  we are more than conquerors
+[1353.02 --> 1353.66]  through him
+[1353.66 --> 1355.08]  who loved us.
+[1355.14 --> 1356.12]  For I am convinced
+[1356.12 --> 1356.94]  that neither death
+[1356.94 --> 1357.70]  nor life,
+[1357.78 --> 1358.72]  neither angels nor demons,
+[1358.84 --> 1359.54]  neither the present
+[1359.54 --> 1360.14]  nor the future,
+[1360.22 --> 1361.38]  nor any powers,
+[1361.66 --> 1362.74]  neither height nor depth,
+[1362.74 --> 1363.32]  nor anything
+[1363.32 --> 1364.30]  in all creation,
+[1364.50 --> 1366.14]  will be able to separate us
+[1366.14 --> 1367.18]  from the love of God
+[1367.18 --> 1367.82]  that is available
+[1367.82 --> 1368.84]  in Christ Jesus,
+[1369.32 --> 1369.88]  our Lord.
+[1371.54 --> 1373.68]  Just because you don't understand it
+[1373.68 --> 1375.88]  doesn't mean it's not there.
+[1377.98 --> 1379.10]  God is able to take
+[1379.10 --> 1382.00]  the most horrific evil
+[1382.00 --> 1383.22]  in the world,
+[1383.78 --> 1385.78]  his own death
+[1385.78 --> 1387.96]  on an instrument of Roman torture,
+[1387.96 --> 1391.04]  and he's able to turn that
+[1391.04 --> 1393.30]  into the greatest good
+[1393.30 --> 1396.08]  that the world has ever seen,
+[1396.20 --> 1397.78]  salvation for all
+[1397.78 --> 1398.94]  whom he will call.
+[1399.16 --> 1400.16]  And if he can do that,
+[1400.32 --> 1401.32]  is he not able
+[1401.32 --> 1403.18]  to take your present situation
+[1403.18 --> 1404.56]  of hurt and pain
+[1404.56 --> 1405.14]  or worry,
+[1405.44 --> 1406.52]  whatever it may be,
+[1407.48 --> 1409.04]  and be present with you
+[1409.04 --> 1410.74]  and turn it for his glory?
+[1411.82 --> 1412.28]  Right?
+[1412.30 --> 1413.44]  We may not know the details,
+[1414.28 --> 1415.66]  but we have it even better
+[1415.66 --> 1417.02]  because we know the God
+[1417.02 --> 1418.82]  who controls the details.
+[1419.08 --> 1421.54]  And still better yet,
+[1422.68 --> 1425.22]  he knows us.
+[1427.08 --> 1427.64]  Jesus,
+[1428.02 --> 1429.10]  who lived the life
+[1429.10 --> 1429.84]  I should have lived,
+[1430.06 --> 1431.20]  who died the death
+[1431.20 --> 1432.28]  that I deserve,
+[1433.54 --> 1434.78]  gave himself up
+[1434.78 --> 1436.10]  for me,
+[1436.80 --> 1438.70]  for you.
+[1439.98 --> 1441.44]  He knows you
+[1441.44 --> 1443.38]  by name.
+[1445.70 --> 1448.32]  That's remembering rightly.
+[1449.78 --> 1451.10]  We have a responsibility
+[1451.10 --> 1452.34]  to ourselves
+[1452.34 --> 1453.50]  and to each other
+[1453.50 --> 1454.56]  to do that,
+[1454.80 --> 1454.94]  right?
+[1454.98 --> 1455.82]  To put ourselves
+[1455.82 --> 1456.54]  in places
+[1456.54 --> 1457.68]  and circumstances
+[1457.68 --> 1458.90]  and with a people
+[1458.90 --> 1460.38]  who will help us
+[1460.38 --> 1461.72]  remember rightly.
+[1464.28 --> 1465.34]  Remembering rightly
+[1465.34 --> 1467.70]  gets us to a place
+[1467.70 --> 1469.00]  where we can view
+[1469.00 --> 1469.82]  our lives,
+[1469.82 --> 1470.66]  our present
+[1470.66 --> 1472.00]  and future realities
+[1472.00 --> 1473.58]  through the lens
+[1473.58 --> 1474.62]  of what I'm calling
+[1474.62 --> 1476.60]  valued virtues.
+[1477.48 --> 1478.38]  That's part two.
+[1479.34 --> 1479.52]  Right?
+[1479.60 --> 1480.50]  Viewing our lives
+[1480.50 --> 1482.44]  through valued virtues.
+[1483.58 --> 1484.68]  Now this goes back
+[1484.68 --> 1485.72]  to the second part
+[1485.72 --> 1487.00]  of verse two.
+[1487.46 --> 1488.06]  And so we said,
+[1488.40 --> 1488.58]  Lord,
+[1488.68 --> 1489.68]  I have heard of your fame.
+[1489.78 --> 1490.42]  I stand in awe
+[1490.42 --> 1491.08]  of your deeds,
+[1491.16 --> 1491.30]  right?
+[1491.34 --> 1491.94]  That's Habakkuk.
+[1492.04 --> 1493.08]  I remember rightly
+[1493.08 --> 1494.12]  what you have done
+[1494.12 --> 1495.18]  and then now
+[1495.18 --> 1496.40]  renew them
+[1496.40 --> 1497.42]  in our day.
+[1498.12 --> 1498.92]  In our time,
+[1498.92 --> 1499.80]  make them known.
+[1500.04 --> 1500.76]  In wrath,
+[1500.92 --> 1501.94]  remember mercy.
+[1502.48 --> 1503.40]  What's Habakkuk saying?
+[1503.46 --> 1503.68]  He's saying,
+[1503.88 --> 1504.84]  do it again, God.
+[1505.60 --> 1505.82]  Right?
+[1505.84 --> 1506.44]  If you've done it
+[1506.44 --> 1507.22]  in the past,
+[1507.42 --> 1508.68]  you can do it again
+[1508.68 --> 1509.42]  in the present.
+[1510.04 --> 1510.90]  That's hope.
+[1512.58 --> 1513.70]  And Habakkuk knows
+[1513.70 --> 1514.72]  that if he doesn't
+[1514.72 --> 1515.72]  do it again
+[1515.72 --> 1516.40]  in the present,
+[1516.84 --> 1517.70]  he has a purpose.
+[1518.98 --> 1519.80]  That's faith.
+[1521.36 --> 1522.18]  And Habakkuk knows
+[1522.18 --> 1523.48]  that in that purpose,
+[1523.70 --> 1524.92]  he is never forgotten,
+[1525.30 --> 1526.48]  he is never alone,
+[1526.48 --> 1527.82]  and there are no mistakes.
+[1528.64 --> 1530.24]  That's love.
+[1531.74 --> 1532.32]  Hope,
+[1533.36 --> 1533.68]  faith,
+[1534.40 --> 1535.20]  and love.
+[1536.02 --> 1537.92]  These are the three virtues
+[1537.92 --> 1539.30]  by which we see
+[1539.30 --> 1540.14]  life,
+[1540.58 --> 1541.14]  and trial,
+[1541.52 --> 1542.10]  and struggle,
+[1542.48 --> 1543.08]  and hardship.
+[1543.76 --> 1543.92]  Right?
+[1544.02 --> 1545.50]  Hope that he can change it.
+[1545.82 --> 1546.66]  Faith that in it
+[1546.66 --> 1547.58]  he has a purpose,
+[1547.78 --> 1549.22]  and love in such a way
+[1549.22 --> 1550.12]  that he is always
+[1550.12 --> 1551.28]  with you.
+[1552.62 --> 1553.70]  Remembering rightly,
+[1553.70 --> 1555.22]  or being part of a community
+[1555.22 --> 1556.62]  that remembers rightly
+[1556.62 --> 1558.12]  when you just can't,
+[1558.36 --> 1558.52]  right,
+[1558.62 --> 1559.62]  trains your heart
+[1559.62 --> 1561.36]  to see the world
+[1561.36 --> 1562.20]  and life
+[1562.20 --> 1563.84]  through these virtues.
+[1564.44 --> 1565.12]  And I know that
+[1565.12 --> 1567.00]  the language of virtue
+[1567.00 --> 1567.60]  and vice
+[1567.60 --> 1568.50]  isn't really the way
+[1568.50 --> 1569.58]  people talk anymore.
+[1569.86 --> 1570.74]  I get that.
+[1571.46 --> 1572.08]  But this
+[1572.08 --> 1573.84]  isn't just
+[1573.84 --> 1574.68]  talk.
+[1574.92 --> 1575.98]  These aren't just
+[1575.98 --> 1576.70]  words.
+[1576.90 --> 1577.90]  This is God
+[1577.90 --> 1578.64]  talking.
+[1579.04 --> 1580.04]  These are God's
+[1580.04 --> 1580.62]  words,
+[1580.62 --> 1581.20]  and the one
+[1581.20 --> 1582.04]  who spoke
+[1582.04 --> 1583.10]  all of the world
+[1583.10 --> 1584.12]  into existence
+[1584.12 --> 1586.10]  is speaking to you
+[1586.10 --> 1587.32]  and to your heart
+[1587.32 --> 1588.82]  right here.
+[1589.62 --> 1590.24]  Now.
+[1591.78 --> 1593.38]  He is drawing you
+[1593.38 --> 1595.26]  into the arms
+[1595.26 --> 1596.68]  of Jesus,
+[1596.88 --> 1598.72]  close to his heart,
+[1598.72 --> 1600.46]  and into your
+[1600.46 --> 1602.18]  wrecked moments
+[1602.18 --> 1603.32]  he whispers,
+[1603.66 --> 1605.64]  I have made you,
+[1605.86 --> 1607.54]  I will carry you,
+[1607.54 --> 1609.34]  I will sustain you,
+[1609.46 --> 1611.22]  and I will rescue you.
+[1612.12 --> 1613.28]  Into your moments
+[1613.28 --> 1613.90]  and days,
+[1614.00 --> 1615.08]  whatever they are,
+[1615.14 --> 1615.52]  he says,
+[1615.62 --> 1616.60]  come to me,
+[1616.72 --> 1618.00]  all who are weary
+[1618.00 --> 1619.18]  and burdened,
+[1619.20 --> 1620.70]  and I will give you
+[1620.70 --> 1621.52]  rest.
+[1623.28 --> 1623.76]  And look,
+[1624.42 --> 1625.78]  this is our point.
+[1626.82 --> 1628.10]  We are learning
+[1628.10 --> 1629.68]  how to trust
+[1629.68 --> 1630.92]  God's plan
+[1630.92 --> 1631.90]  and purpose
+[1631.90 --> 1632.72]  for establishing
+[1632.72 --> 1633.60]  his kingdom
+[1633.60 --> 1634.66]  and giving ourselves
+[1634.66 --> 1635.42]  in trust
+[1635.42 --> 1636.36]  with confidence
+[1636.36 --> 1637.38]  and increasing
+[1637.38 --> 1638.34]  our capacity
+[1638.34 --> 1639.12]  for reverence
+[1639.12 --> 1639.54]  and awe
+[1639.54 --> 1640.52]  so that even
+[1640.52 --> 1641.66]  when we are
+[1641.66 --> 1642.38]  wrecked,
+[1642.80 --> 1644.28]  we can worship.
+[1646.22 --> 1647.10]  And that takes
+[1647.10 --> 1647.78]  a changed heart.
+[1649.82 --> 1650.42]  And look,
+[1650.44 --> 1651.06]  I know that we're
+[1651.06 --> 1652.08]  coming up against
+[1652.08 --> 1653.88]  the limits of our time
+[1653.88 --> 1654.72]  here this morning,
+[1654.84 --> 1655.60]  and so I will be quick
+[1655.60 --> 1656.04]  with this,
+[1656.12 --> 1658.32]  but your story
+[1658.32 --> 1660.90]  of a transformed heart,
+[1661.34 --> 1662.40]  your story
+[1662.40 --> 1663.84]  of God at work
+[1663.84 --> 1664.36]  in you
+[1664.36 --> 1665.64]  and through you
+[1665.64 --> 1667.68]  is a powerful thing,
+[1667.88 --> 1669.08]  and don't waste it
+[1669.08 --> 1670.20]  by not telling it.
+[1670.94 --> 1671.06]  Right?
+[1671.18 --> 1671.58]  Parents,
+[1671.76 --> 1672.76]  tell your kids
+[1672.76 --> 1674.04]  how Jesus changed
+[1674.04 --> 1674.56]  your life.
+[1674.92 --> 1675.20]  Kids,
+[1675.36 --> 1676.14]  tell your friends
+[1676.14 --> 1677.96]  how Jesus is changing you.
+[1678.30 --> 1678.74]  Boyfriends,
+[1678.86 --> 1679.76]  talk to your girlfriends.
+[1679.96 --> 1680.36]  Girlfriends,
+[1680.46 --> 1681.30]  talk to your boyfriends
+[1681.30 --> 1682.58]  about why faith
+[1682.58 --> 1683.94]  in Jesus matters.
+[1684.82 --> 1685.02]  Right?
+[1685.14 --> 1686.06]  Find a chance.
+[1686.46 --> 1687.22]  Make it happen.
+[1687.22 --> 1688.22]  Talk to your neighbor
+[1688.22 --> 1688.82]  this week
+[1688.82 --> 1689.86]  about how God
+[1689.86 --> 1691.16]  is changing your heart.
+[1691.48 --> 1692.44]  Tell your coworkers
+[1692.44 --> 1693.34]  why holding on
+[1693.34 --> 1693.78]  to Jesus
+[1693.78 --> 1695.24]  is so important.
+[1695.46 --> 1696.06]  And don't make it
+[1696.06 --> 1696.68]  more complicated
+[1696.68 --> 1697.74]  than it needs to be.
+[1697.94 --> 1698.08]  Right?
+[1698.12 --> 1698.80]  Don't make it out
+[1698.80 --> 1699.66]  to be more complicated
+[1699.66 --> 1700.76]  than it actually is.
+[1700.90 --> 1701.10]  Right?
+[1701.14 --> 1702.24]  This is your story.
+[1702.94 --> 1704.22]  The gospel of Jesus
+[1704.22 --> 1705.48]  is your story.
+[1706.28 --> 1707.14]  And so tell it.
+[1710.02 --> 1711.48]  And if you can't tell it,
+[1713.08 --> 1714.36]  or if you don't know
+[1714.36 --> 1715.32]  your place
+[1715.32 --> 1716.26]  in this story
+[1716.26 --> 1717.42]  right now,
+[1717.46 --> 1718.46]  or if you're in a place
+[1718.46 --> 1720.52]  where you're just lost
+[1720.52 --> 1721.58]  and afraid,
+[1721.74 --> 1722.68]  I want to talk to you
+[1722.68 --> 1723.70]  right now.
+[1726.80 --> 1728.16]  If you are in a place
+[1728.16 --> 1730.76]  that is so dark
+[1730.76 --> 1732.96]  you can't see any light,
+[1733.60 --> 1735.22]  if you are in a storm
+[1735.22 --> 1737.02]  that is so overwhelming
+[1737.02 --> 1738.96]  you can't even fix your eyes
+[1738.96 --> 1739.88]  on anything
+[1739.88 --> 1740.78]  or anyone,
+[1741.10 --> 1742.50]  let alone Jesus,
+[1742.64 --> 1744.64]  if you can't hold on anymore,
+[1744.64 --> 1746.20]  I want you to know
+[1746.20 --> 1748.32]  that he is holding on
+[1748.32 --> 1748.92]  to you.
+[1750.18 --> 1751.82]  That if you are faithless,
+[1752.06 --> 1753.14]  he is faithful
+[1753.14 --> 1754.90]  for he cannot disown himself.
+[1755.24 --> 1755.34]  Right?
+[1755.34 --> 1756.18]  That if you don't have
+[1756.18 --> 1756.82]  the energy
+[1756.82 --> 1758.48]  or the spiritual intuition
+[1758.48 --> 1759.90]  to even look to Jesus
+[1759.90 --> 1761.56]  as the waves are crashing in
+[1761.56 --> 1762.32]  around you,
+[1762.54 --> 1764.62]  know that he is reaching out
+[1764.62 --> 1765.32]  to you.
+[1765.62 --> 1767.10]  He is grabbing your hand.
+[1767.48 --> 1770.10]  He will hold you fast.
+[1770.10 --> 1773.90]  our circumstances
+[1773.90 --> 1774.80]  may never change,
+[1775.52 --> 1778.00]  but we will change
+[1778.00 --> 1780.56]  because that's
+[1780.56 --> 1782.60]  what God does.
+[1783.74 --> 1784.38]  Amen.
+[1784.88 --> 1785.78]  Let me pray with you.
+[1785.78 --> 1791.92]  Lord God,
+[1792.02 --> 1792.44]  today,
+[1793.16 --> 1795.06]  take your word
+[1795.06 --> 1796.92]  and transform us.
+[1798.22 --> 1799.68]  Change our hearts,
+[1800.08 --> 1801.64]  open our eyes
+[1801.64 --> 1802.64]  that we might see
+[1802.64 --> 1803.94]  Jesus.
+[1806.14 --> 1807.96]  We might hear your voice
+[1807.96 --> 1810.64]  whispering your promise.
+[1810.64 --> 1813.34]  that we might hear your voice
+[1813.34 --> 1814.88]  speaking love
+[1814.88 --> 1816.14]  over us.
+[1819.06 --> 1820.04]  Strengthen us
+[1820.04 --> 1820.90]  in hope
+[1820.90 --> 1822.04]  and faith
+[1822.04 --> 1823.26]  and in love.
+[1824.52 --> 1825.26]  And God,
+[1825.30 --> 1826.02]  if we are hopeless,
+[1826.92 --> 1828.16]  if we are faithless,
+[1828.54 --> 1829.90]  if we don't know your love,
+[1831.28 --> 1832.10]  reach out
+[1832.10 --> 1833.32]  all the more.
+[1834.68 --> 1835.34]  Hang on
+[1835.34 --> 1836.06]  all the tighter.
+[1837.20 --> 1837.94]  And may we
+[1837.94 --> 1838.64]  experience today
+[1838.64 --> 1841.64]  your strength.
+[1843.44 --> 1845.28]  Hold us fast,
+[1845.44 --> 1846.00]  Lord Jesus,
+[1846.80 --> 1848.42]  that whatever may come,
+[1849.58 --> 1851.64]  even while we are wrecked,
+[1852.20 --> 1854.68]  we can worship you.
+[1855.68 --> 1856.32]  Amen.

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+• Repeated phrase "We'll be right back"
+• Praise to Christ and His name
+• Christmas carols (e.g. "Joy to the World", "Oh Night Divine")
+• Scriptural references to Jesus as savior and king
+• Prayers for light, hope, love, joy, and peace
+• Mention of authority and justice through Jesus' birth
+• Jesus Christ's birth and significance
+• Welcome to worship service, Christmas celebration
+• Invitation for all people to come and worship
+• Hymns and songs of praise (O Come, All Ye Faithful)
+• Repeated phrases of adoration and praise to God
+• Christmas carols sung, including "Hark! The Herald Angels Sing" and "Away in a Manger"
+• Discussion of the importance of Jesus' birth amidst chaos and uncertainty
+• Reflection on the world's problems, such as conflict, fear, and isolation
+• Mention of COVID-19 pandemic and its impact on daily life
+• Celebration of Jesus' coming into a broken world with comforting words
+• Ongoing support services provided by Night Shift, including counseling, Bible studies, and hot meals
+• Langley outreach service and commitment from the church to serve every second month
+• Donations for ongoing support
+• Reading of the Christmas story from Matthew chapter 1 verses 18-24
+• Prayer for the word of God to be spoken and planted in hearts
+• The story of Jesus' birth and name
+• The concept of "un-hallmark Christmas" and deconstructing cultural influences on Christmas
+• Frustration with commercialization of Christmas
+• The importance of Advent and liturgy of waiting for the coming light
+• Re-narrating lives in the truth of the gospel and Jesus' coming again
+• The source of meaning and how it is found, particularly through a Christian perspective
+• Relationship to God is fundamental to understanding truth, goodness, and beauty
+• General revelation: God reveals himself through creation's order, majesty, and beauty
+• Special revelation: God's word and story provide ultimate meaning and purpose
+• Meaning and purpose come from living in a purposive relationship with God as the true God and source of all good
+• Deconstructing faith within the context of community
+• The importance of rooting oneself in the true story of Jesus
+• Christmas as a reminder of something more and transcendent
+• The human longing for meaning and magic in an increasingly disenchanted world
+• The need for an experience of deeper magic
+• The Bible's book of Ecclesiastes states that eternity is set within every human heart.
+• Christmas gives a glimpse into eternity through the birth of Jesus, who entered time as Emmanuel (God with us).
+• The virgin Mary became pregnant with Jesus through the Holy Spirit, and his birth was prophesied to fulfill God's plan.
+• The true story of Christmas is the incarnation, where God took on flesh to ransom humanity from sin.
+• The meaning in life comes from embracing this true story of Christmas.
+• The importance of historical roots in a story
+• Use of genealogies to tie events to history
+• Inclusion of unseemly characters as an argument for the story's truth
+• First witnesses being shepherds and women as evidence of the story's authenticity
+• Inclusion of pagans and non-Jewish elements in the story of Jesus' birth
+• The significance of the truth mattering to those who hear the story
+• The story of Jesus has been challenged and deconstructed, but the goal is to bring people closer to the true Jesus.
+• It's easy to substitute a personal version of Jesus for the one described in the Bible.
+• A fictional example from "American Gods" illustrates how different cultures have created their own versions of gods, including multiple Jesuses.
+• The TV adaptation of "American Gods" takes this concept further, showing various Jesuses based on Western cultural influences.
+• Different images or versions of Jesus (feminine, hipster, hippie)
+• Preferences for a Jesus that fits one's needs or beliefs
+• Distinction between a historical/safe Jesus and an active/involved Jesus
+• Various expectations of Jesus' role in life (Savior, Lord, teacher)
+• Importance of seeking the real Jesus over substitutes or lesser versions
+• The true meaning of Jesus' birth and significance
+• Finding meaning and purpose in life through a relationship with Jesus
+• Understanding the importance of Jesus' teachings and word
+• The reality of Jesus as king of the universe and savior from sin and death
+• The hope of Jesus' return and second coming
+• The relationship between God and humanity, specifically through Jesus Christ
+• The mystery of God's meekness and majesty
+• The significance of Christmas and the birth of Jesus
+• Inviting God to go with us as we face challenges in our lives
+• Receiving God's blessing for the day ahead
+• Going out into the world to love and serve the Lord
+• Discussion of a Christmas tradition in the church that reflects Dutch heritage
+• Performance of a song with lyrics displayed on screens in English and Dutch
+• Invitation to sing together in either language
+• Conclusion of service with repeated expression of gratitude and thanks

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+[429.88 --> 435.88]  We'll be right back.
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+[437.88 --> 441.88]  We'll be right back.
+[441.88 --> 443.88]  We'll be right back.
+[443.88 --> 445.88]  We'll be right back.
+[445.88 --> 447.88]  We'll be right back.
+[447.88 --> 451.88]  We'll be right back.
+[451.88 --> 456.22]  Praise His holy name.
+[456.80 --> 463.88]  Christ is the Lord.
+[465.10 --> 471.96]  Praise His name forever.
+[471.96 --> 484.38]  His power and glory evermore.
+[484.38 --> 487.86]  Evermore proclaim.
+[490.00 --> 501.42]  His power and glory evermore.
+[501.96 --> 504.62]  Evermore proclaim.
+[531.96 --> 536.96]  His power and glory evermore.
+[536.96 --> 545.82]  Fall on your knees.
+[545.82 --> 552.82]  Oh, hear the angel voices.
+[554.82 --> 560.82]  Oh, night divine.
+[560.82 --> 565.58]  Oh, night.
+[565.82 --> 570.82]  When Christ was born.
+[570.82 --> 577.82]  Oh, night divine.
+[577.82 --> 584.82]  Oh, night divine.
+[584.82 --> 586.82]  Oh, night divine.
+[586.82 --> 590.82]  Oh, night divine.
+[590.82 --> 605.82]  Oh, night divine.
+[605.82 --> 627.44]  Light of the world, treasure of heaven, brilliant like the stars in the wintry sky.
+[627.44 --> 637.02]  Joy of the Father, reach through the darkness, shine across the earth.
+[637.02 --> 660.02]  Joy to the world, the Lord is come.
+[660.02 --> 667.02]  Let earth receive her King.
+[667.02 --> 677.02]  Let every heart prepare Him room.
+[677.02 --> 684.02]  Let heaven and nature sing.
+[684.02 --> 692.02]  Let heaven and nature sing.
+[692.02 --> 704.02]  Joy to the earth, the Savior reigns.
+[704.02 --> 711.02]  Let all their songs and songs.
+[711.02 --> 726.02]  What fields and floods, rocks, hills and plains, repeat the sounding joy.
+[726.02 --> 741.02]  Repeat, repeat the sounding joy.
+[741.02 --> 748.02]  Let all our sin and sorrow grow.
+[748.02 --> 756.02]  Your thoughts infest the ground.
+[756.02 --> 763.02]  He comes to make His blessings flow.
+[763.02 --> 769.02]  For as the curse is found.
+[769.02 --> 775.02]  For as the curse is found.
+[775.02 --> 782.02]  For as the curse is found.
+[782.02 --> 792.02]  He rules the world with truth and grace.
+[792.02 --> 799.02]  And makes the nations rule.
+[799.02 --> 809.02]  The glories of His righteousness.
+[809.02 --> 813.02]  And wonders of His love.
+[813.02 --> 818.02]  And wonders of His love.
+[818.02 --> 827.02]  And wonders of His love.
+[827.02 --> 829.02]  You learn to swear to God.
+[829.02 --> 830.02]  You assumed always Hat day slime lives from you.
+[830.02 --> 831.02]  Efenasius of talism.
+[831.02 --> 836.02]  He loved everything in setzen and sleeps the ions it takes down to you.
+[836.02 --> 837.02]  Therefore, when there is an angel.
+[837.02 --> 838.02]  See us Informerniaelah, personal absolutes from you.
+[838.02 --> 839.02]  The Mukurt!!!
+[839.02 --> 840.02]  Miss active has taught me what's proof.
+[840.02 --> 841.02]  What's NBC 95 00489112100AS.
+[841.02 --> 842.02]  It00syeジェクiatwomen,,
+[842.02 --> 844.02]  er offset the truth in the military.
+[844.02 --> 845.02]  It00sye menses in dynamite.
+[845.02 --> 848.02]  But of my own evil,
+[848.02 --> 849.52]  It00sye cms me you cannot det.
+[849.52 --> 851.52]  Despite the Royal Prince the King.
+[851.52 --> 852.62]  For as supernatural services,
+[852.62 --> 854.02]  people may not eat.
+[854.02 --> 854.52]  It00s意 thể이스를 listen.
+[854.52 --> 855.92]  Lo yor Zen and econ 73%
+[855.92 --> 882.28]  We who have walked in darkness have seen a great light.
+[882.28 --> 889.00]  We who have lived in a land of deep darkness have had the light of hope, love, joy, and
+[889.00 --> 891.44]  peace shined on us.
+[891.44 --> 895.20]  For the yoke of our burden has been broken.
+[895.20 --> 899.46]  For the rod of the oppressor has been broken.
+[899.46 --> 903.88]  We call him one for a child has been born to us.
+[903.88 --> 906.88]  And all authority rests on his shoulders.
+[906.88 --> 910.46]  We call him Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God.
+[910.46 --> 913.90]  We call him Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.
+[913.90 --> 917.46]  The Lord establishes his kingdom with justice and righteousness.
+[917.46 --> 920.90]  For this is the Christ on whom we have waited.
+[920.90 --> 924.34]  We pray.
+[924.34 --> 925.34]  We pray.
+[925.34 --> 929.78]  Mighty God, you have sent us your son in whom we find our hope, who teaches us love, who
+[929.78 --> 931.34]  teaches us joy, and rules with peace.
+[931.34 --> 938.34]  In this baby we have seen the Christ and his kingdom, which breaks the oppressive powers
+[938.34 --> 939.34]  of this world.
+[939.34 --> 944.34]  May the light of your kingdom shine from this time onward and forevermore.
+[944.34 --> 945.78]  In Jesus' name we pray.
+[945.78 --> 946.78]  Amen.
+[946.78 --> 971.78]  Merry Christmas.
+[971.78 --> 972.78]  Merry Christmas.
+[972.78 --> 973.78]  Merry Christmas.
+[973.78 --> 975.78]  Oh, wow.
+[975.78 --> 978.22]  That was very robotic of you.
+[978.22 --> 979.22]  Well done.
+[979.22 --> 982.78]  Welcome to worship.
+[982.78 --> 986.22]  A special welcome if you are visiting with us this morning.
+[986.22 --> 987.22]  My name is Chris.
+[987.22 --> 989.22]  I'm one of the pastors here.
+[989.22 --> 996.50]  It's my privilege along with these others to lead us in our Christmas worship today.
+[996.50 --> 1001.42]  If you are joining us online, congratulations on not having to make it through the snow to
+[1001.42 --> 1001.88]  get here.
+[1001.88 --> 1005.52]  For those of you who made it through the snow, congratulations on making it here safely.
+[1006.08 --> 1011.22]  If you didn't make it here safely, you can't hear me right now, so we'll talk after.
+[1011.22 --> 1018.88]  This morning, as we come together, we come to celebrate Jesus Christ who came.
+[1018.88 --> 1023.82]  He calls us into his presence this morning.
+[1023.82 --> 1032.06]  He says, all God's people, boys and girls, women and men, come and worship.
+[1032.98 --> 1038.46]  Shepherds, magi, saints and sinners, come and worship.
+[1038.46 --> 1048.06]  Outsiders, outcasts, unlikely witnesses, pagan worshipers, friends and family, come and worship.
+[1049.26 --> 1055.12]  All who need a Savior, all who long for comfort, come and worship.
+[1055.12 --> 1059.36]  Come and worship Christ, the newborn King.
+[1060.36 --> 1064.42]  It's in his name that we come together this morning.
+[1065.08 --> 1067.18]  God welcomes us into this place.
+[1067.18 --> 1068.68]  The Lord be with you.
+[1072.76 --> 1079.38]  Grace, mercy, and peace to you this Christmas day.
+[1080.28 --> 1087.20]  From God our Father, from Lord Jesus Christ, his Son and our Savior, born today through the
+[1087.20 --> 1089.88]  presence and power of the Holy Spirit.
+[1090.48 --> 1093.02]  All God's people said, amen.
+[1093.38 --> 1095.06]  Let's worship our God in song together.
+[1095.06 --> 1095.16]  Amen.
+[1097.18 --> 1099.18]  Amen.
+[1099.18 --> 1103.10]  The word became flesh and made his dwelling among us.
+[1103.76 --> 1105.00]  O come, all ye faithful.
+[1106.02 --> 1110.60]  Come, let us adore him, for he is Christ the Lord.
+[1110.60 --> 1110.68]  Amen.
+[1110.68 --> 1124.10]  O come, all ye faithful.
+[1124.10 --> 1127.46]  Joyful and triumphant.
+[1127.46 --> 1137.40]  O come ye, O come ye to Bethlehem.
+[1137.40 --> 1147.32]  Come and behold him, for the king of angels.
+[1147.32 --> 1153.22]  O come, let us adore him.
+[1153.22 --> 1157.18]  O come, let us adore him.
+[1157.18 --> 1159.18]  Oh
+[1187.18 --> 1189.18]  Oh
+[1189.18 --> 1191.18]  Oh
+[1195.18 --> 1197.18]  Oh
+[1197.18 --> 1199.18]  Oh
+[1201.18 --> 1203.18]  Oh
+[1205.18 --> 1207.18]  Oh
+[1209.18 --> 1211.18]  Oh
+[1211.18 --> 1213.18]  Oh
+[1213.18 --> 1215.18]  Oh
+[1215.18 --> 1217.18]  Oh
+[1221.18 --> 1223.18]  Oh
+[1223.18 --> 1225.18]  Oh
+[1225.18 --> 1227.18]  Oh
+[1231.18 --> 1233.18]  Oh
+[1233.18 --> 1235.18]  Oh
+[1235.18 --> 1237.18]  Oh
+[1241.18 --> 1243.18]  Oh
+[1243.18 --> 1245.18]  Oh
+[1245.18 --> 1247.18]  Oh
+[1247.18 --> 1249.18]  Glory
+[1249.18 --> 1251.18]  In the highest
+[1251.18 --> 1253.18]  Oh
+[1253.18 --> 1255.18]  Come let us adore
+[1255.18 --> 1257.18]  Him
+[1257.18 --> 1259.18]  Oh
+[1259.18 --> 1261.18]  Come let us adore
+[1261.18 --> 1263.18]  Him
+[1263.18 --> 1265.18]  Oh
+[1265.18 --> 1267.18]  Come let us adore
+[1267.18 --> 1269.18]  Him
+[1269.18 --> 1271.18]  Praise
+[1271.18 --> 1273.18]  The Lord
+[1273.18 --> 1275.18]  Yea
+[1275.18 --> 1277.18]  Lord we greet
+[1277.18 --> 1279.18]  Thee
+[1279.18 --> 1281.18]  Born this happy
+[1281.18 --> 1283.18]  Morning
+[1283.18 --> 1285.18]  Jesus
+[1285.18 --> 1287.18]  To Thee
+[1287.18 --> 1289.18]  We all
+[1289.18 --> 1291.18]  Glory
+[1291.18 --> 1293.18]  Give
+[1293.18 --> 1295.18]  Word
+[1295.18 --> 1297.18]  Word
+[1297.18 --> 1299.18]  On the Father
+[1299.18 --> 1301.18]  Now in
+[1301.18 --> 1303.18]  Flesh appearing
+[1303.18 --> 1305.18]  Oh
+[1305.18 --> 1307.18]  Come let us adore
+[1307.18 --> 1309.18]  Him
+[1309.18 --> 1311.18]  Oh
+[1311.18 --> 1313.18]  Come let us adore
+[1313.18 --> 1315.18]  Him
+[1315.18 --> 1317.18]  Oh
+[1317.18 --> 1319.18]  Come let us adore
+[1319.18 --> 1321.18]  Him
+[1321.18 --> 1323.18]  Praise
+[1323.18 --> 1325.18]  The Lord
+[1325.18 --> 1327.18]  The Lord
+[1327.18 --> 1329.18]  The Lord
+[1329.18 --> 1331.18]  The Lord
+[1331.18 --> 1333.18]  The Lord
+[1333.18 --> 1335.18]  Hark
+[1335.18 --> 1337.18]  The
+[1337.18 --> 1349.18]  Hark the herald angels sing
+[1349.18 --> 1353.18]  Glory to the newborn King
+[1353.18 --> 1359.38]  peace on earth and mercy mild
+[1359.38 --> 1364.18]  God and sinners reconciled
+[1364.70 --> 1369.18]  joyful all ye nations rise
+[1369.90 --> 1374.18]  join the triumph of the skies
+[1375.12 --> 1379.18]  with angelic hopes proclaim
+[1379.18 --> 1385.34]  Christ is born in Bethlehem
+[1385.34 --> 1390.18]  Hark the herald angels sing
+[1390.72 --> 1396.18]  Glory to the newborn King
+[1397.40 --> 1402.52]  Christ the highest heaven adored
+[1402.52 --> 1407.18]  Christ the everlasting Lord
+[1407.18 --> 1412.18]  Late in time behold him God
+[1412.74 --> 1417.18]  Offspring of the virgin's womb
+[1417.98 --> 1422.18]  Failed in flesh the Godhead see
+[1423.18 --> 1427.18]  Hail the darned deity
+[1427.18 --> 1433.30]  Pleased his man with us to dwell
+[1433.30 --> 1437.18]  Jesus our Emmanuel
+[1437.18 --> 1443.18]  Lord the herald angels sing
+[1443.74 --> 1449.18]  Glory to the newborn King
+[1449.18 --> 1455.18]  Hail the heaven-born Prince of Peace
+[1455.18 --> 1460.18]  Hail the Son of Righteousness
+[1460.18 --> 1466.18]  Light and life to all he brings
+[1466.18 --> 1471.18]  Risen with healing in his wings
+[1471.18 --> 1476.18]  While he lays his glory by
+[1476.18 --> 1481.18]  Born that we no more may die
+[1481.18 --> 1486.18]  Born to raise us from the earth
+[1486.18 --> 1490.18]  Born to sin a second birth
+[1490.18 --> 1492.18]  A second birth
+[1492.18 --> 1497.18]  On the herald angels sing
+[1497.18 --> 1502.18]  Glory to the newborn King
+[1502.18 --> 1504.18]  Lord King
+[1504.18 --> 1507.18]  All right, invite you to be seated
+[1507.18 --> 1510.18]  I was wondering if we could get the kids up here
+[1510.18 --> 1513.18]  We're going to be singing a song that you guys know really well
+[1513.18 --> 1514.18]  Away in the manger
+[1514.18 --> 1517.18]  Does anybody want to come up and help us sing that song?
+[1518.18 --> 1519.18]  Let's come up here
+[1519.18 --> 1520.18]  Let's come up here
+[1520.18 --> 1522.18]  Oh, I see some kids are coming up
+[1523.18 --> 1524.18]  Good
+[1524.18 --> 1525.18]  Come on up
+[1525.18 --> 1527.18]  We can stand up and we can look at our parents
+[1528.18 --> 1529.18]  All right, we can stand up here
+[1530.18 --> 1533.18]  Anybody else want to come up and help us sing it?
+[1534.18 --> 1535.18]  Does anybody know the actions to it?
+[1537.18 --> 1539.18]  No? Do you want to help me do it too?
+[1540.18 --> 1541.18]  Yeah? All right
+[1542.18 --> 1543.18]  Let's sing away with the manger
+[1549.18 --> 1567.18]  Be thosehlian who we sphere
+[1568.18 --> 1569.18]  food
+[1570.18 --> 1573.18] odge of amazing
+[1574.18 --> 1575.18]  The sullies of of man
+[1575.18 --> 1577.18]  In a manger
+[1577.18 --> 1580.94]  No crib for a bed
+[1580.94 --> 1584.18]  The little Lord Jesus
+[1584.70 --> 1588.42]  He downed his sweet neck
+[1588.42 --> 1592.48]  The stars in the bright sky
+[1592.48 --> 1595.18]  Looked out where he lay
+[1596.02 --> 1599.18]  The little Lord Jesus
+[1599.70 --> 1603.18]  Asleep on the hay
+[1605.18 --> 1609.26]  The cattle are lowing
+[1609.26 --> 1612.18]  The baby awakes
+[1612.94 --> 1616.18]  But little Lord Jesus
+[1616.70 --> 1620.44]  No crying he makes
+[1620.44 --> 1624.18]  I love you Lord Jesus
+[1624.18 --> 1627.18]  Look down from on high
+[1628.00 --> 1631.18]  And stay by my side
+[1631.18 --> 1636.18]  Till morning is night
+[1636.18 --> 1641.42]  Be near me Lord Jesus
+[1641.42 --> 1644.18]  I ask you to stay
+[1644.18 --> 1648.18]  Close by me forever
+[1648.18 --> 1650.18]  And love me
+[1650.18 --> 1652.18]  I pray
+[1652.18 --> 1656.18]  Bless all the dear children
+[1656.18 --> 1659.18]  In your tender care
+[1659.18 --> 1664.18]  Prepare for heaven
+[1664.18 --> 1669.18]  To live with you there
+[1669.18 --> 1673.18]  Thank you so much for helping us
+[1673.18 --> 1675.18]  You can go back to your moms and dads
+[1675.18 --> 1705.16]  Thank you.
+[1705.18 --> 1708.28]  Fires, floods, funerals, and fear.
+[1709.86 --> 1714.72]  Families split in ideology, distance, controversy, and border closures.
+[1715.66 --> 1719.14]  Elders imprisoned in care homes as well as in their own bodies.
+[1720.12 --> 1723.98]  The nightly news erupts into our protected, isolated space.
+[1724.74 --> 1731.98]  Protests, wars, famines, earthquakes, government overspending, deficits, debts, inflation.
+[1731.98 --> 1739.54]  Conflicting voices on social media echo in our ears amidst the daily COVID count.
+[1741.06 --> 1745.24]  Neighboring cities had drive-by shootings as we had drive-by birthdays.
+[1746.34 --> 1751.32]  Yet amidst the mayhem and the masking, the isolation and the weariness,
+[1752.26 --> 1756.92]  another voice long remembered echoes through the chaos of the years.
+[1757.80 --> 1759.72]  The voice of one who knows.
+[1761.06 --> 1764.18]  One who was born into a world of chaos and weariness.
+[1765.16 --> 1767.94]  His voice still speaks with comforting clarity.
+[1769.02 --> 1772.12]  And so, we celebrate his coming once again.
+[1772.88 --> 1776.48]  His coming into a broken world and into broken hearts.
+[1776.48 --> 1783.12]  He stills our anxiousness with words that carry on into eternity.
+[1784.50 --> 1785.86]  Peace I leave with you.
+[1786.14 --> 1787.74]  My peace I give to you.
+[1788.34 --> 1790.52]  I do not give to you as the world gives.
+[1791.40 --> 1793.52]  Do not let your hearts be troubled.
+[1794.02 --> 1795.54]  And do not be afraid.
+[1795.54 --> 1795.70]  Thank you.
+[1795.70 --> 1797.70]  Thank you.
+[1806.48 --> 1836.46]  Thank you.
+[1836.46 --> 1866.44]  Thank you.
+[1866.46 --> 1896.44]  Thank you.
+[1896.46 --> 1898.46]  Thank you.
+[1898.46 --> 1926.44]  Thank you.
+[1926.44 --> 1928.44]  Thank you.
+[1928.44 --> 1930.44]  Thank you.
+[1930.44 --> 1932.44]  Thank you.
+[1932.44 --> 1934.44]  Thank you.
+[1934.44 --> 1936.44]  Thank you.
+[1936.44 --> 1938.44]  Thank you.
+[1938.44 --> 1940.44]  Thank you.
+[1940.44 --> 1942.44]  Thank you.
+[1942.44 --> 1944.44]  Thank you.
+[1944.44 --> 1945.44]  Thank you.
+[1945.44 --> 1947.44]  Thank you.
+[1947.44 --> 1949.44]  Thank you.
+[1949.44 --> 1951.44]  Thank you.
+[1951.44 --> 1953.44]  Thank you.
+[1953.44 --> 1954.44]  Thank you.
+[1954.44 --> 1956.44]  Thank you.
+[1956.44 --> 1958.44]  Thank you.
+[1958.44 --> 1960.44]  Thank you.
+[1960.44 --> 1962.44]  Thank you.
+[1962.44 --> 1963.44]  Thank you.
+[1963.44 --> 1965.44]  Thank you.
+[1965.44 --> 1972.10]  basic nursing, a mobile library, prayer and loving community contact. The continuum of care includes
+[1972.10 --> 1978.06]  ongoing registered Christian counseling with sliding scale fees, men's and women's support
+[1978.06 --> 1983.50]  groups, Bible studies, extreme weather response, a clothing ministry and much more. More recently,
+[1983.50 --> 1988.12]  Night Shift has extended their service to outreach in the Langley area. Our church has committed,
+[1988.12 --> 1993.04]  our church, referring to us, has committed to serving the people of Langley every second month.
+[1993.04 --> 1998.74]  We currently serve 50 to 60 people a hot meal along with snacks and friendly conversation.
+[1998.74 --> 2003.48]  If you would like more information on how to get involved, please contact me. We thank you for
+[2003.48 --> 2004.38]  your donations today.
+[2023.04 --> 2037.48]  God of all creation, here with us in a starlit manger, Emmanuel.
+[2037.48 --> 2051.48]  God of all creation, here with us in a starlit manger, Emmanuel.
+[2051.48 --> 2054.98]  God of all creation, he has nothing to hold.
+[2054.98 --> 2080.28]  Amen, the lebihrea and blaerіль to
+[2080.28 --> 2095.28]  Worship Christ the Lord, that all that is within us adore.
+[2095.28 --> 2108.28]  Wives and bring their treasures, shepherds bow along.
+[2108.28 --> 2116.28]  Angels' voices sing of peace on earth,
+[2116.28 --> 2126.28]  And have I to offer to heaven's King?
+[2126.28 --> 2135.28]  I will bring my life, my love, my heart.
+[2135.28 --> 2147.28]  Adore, come let us adore, come let us adore.
+[2147.28 --> 2158.28]  Hail the Lord, worship Christ the Lord,
+[2158.28 --> 2170.28]  That all that is within us adore.
+[2170.28 --> 2181.28]  Angels sing praises, ring to the newborn King.
+[2181.28 --> 2186.28]  Peace on earth, here with us, joy awakening.
+[2186.28 --> 2191.28]  At your feet we fall.
+[2191.28 --> 2196.28]  Angels sing praises, ring to the newborn King.
+[2196.28 --> 2201.28]  Peace on earth, here with us, joy awakening.
+[2201.28 --> 2205.28]  At your feet we fall.
+[2205.28 --> 2212.28]  Adore, come let us adore.
+[2212.28 --> 2219.28]  O come let us adore Him.
+[2219.28 --> 2227.28]  The Lord, worship Christ the Lord,
+[2227.28 --> 2240.28]  Let all that is within us adore.
+[2240.28 --> 2245.28]  O come let us adore.
+[2245.28 --> 2246.28]  Morning.
+[2246.28 --> 2266.28]  We're gonna spend some time hearing again, or maybe for the first time, the Christmas story.
+[2266.28 --> 2271.18]  We're going to read that in our Bibles from Matthew chapter 1.
+[2271.78 --> 2280.88]  I'm going to read verse 18 through 24, Matthew's quick Christmas story there.
+[2280.96 --> 2282.24]  It's going to be on the screen behind me.
+[2282.32 --> 2283.22]  You can probably see it already.
+[2283.70 --> 2289.36]  I encourage you, if you have a Bible, to have that in your hands, open, on your device or whatever,
+[2289.66 --> 2296.10]  and you can read along there and then keep it with you as we come into the text.
+[2296.28 --> 2302.10]  With the text open in front of you, let's pray together.
+[2305.08 --> 2312.42]  Holy God, Heavenly Father, speak now your Christmas words to us.
+[2313.70 --> 2325.58]  Speak now the hope, the love, the joy, and the peace that you might bring into the chaos of our lives.
+[2327.10 --> 2331.88]  Speak now with your voice that we might hear you in this word.
+[2332.60 --> 2335.98]  That we might go from here today praising your name,
+[2336.76 --> 2341.40]  joining our voice with the angels, with all of creation, with the shepherds of old,
+[2341.90 --> 2345.16]  singing your worth and majesty.
+[2345.16 --> 2349.94]  Take your word and plant it deep in our hearts.
+[2350.06 --> 2351.46]  In Jesus' name we pray.
+[2352.36 --> 2352.68]  Amen.
+[2352.68 --> 2352.76]  Amen.
+[2360.50 --> 2365.60]  This is how the birth of Jesus, the Messiah, came about.
+[2365.60 --> 2370.10]  His mother, Mary, was pledged to Joseph.
+[2371.14 --> 2377.10]  But before they came together, she was found to be pregnant through the Holy Spirit.
+[2377.10 --> 2385.80]  Because Joseph, her husband, was faithful to the law and yet did not want to expose her to public disgrace,
+[2386.20 --> 2389.50]  he had in mind to divorce her quietly.
+[2389.50 --> 2396.38]  But after he had considered this, an angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream and said,
+[2396.52 --> 2402.48]  Joseph, son of David, do not be afraid to take Mary home as your wife,
+[2402.48 --> 2407.32]  because what is conceived in her is from the Holy Spirit.
+[2408.02 --> 2412.34]  She will give birth to a son and you are to give him the name Jesus
+[2412.34 --> 2416.64]  because he will save his people from all their sins.
+[2416.64 --> 2422.56]  All this took place to fulfill what the Lord had said through the prophet.
+[2423.48 --> 2428.32]  The virgin will conceive and give birth to a son and they will call him Emmanuel,
+[2428.96 --> 2431.12]  which means God with us.
+[2432.74 --> 2436.70]  When Joseph woke up, he did what the angel of the Lord had commanded him
+[2436.70 --> 2439.06]  and he took Mary home as his wife.
+[2439.60 --> 2443.80]  But he did not consummate their marriage until she gave birth to a son
+[2443.80 --> 2446.72]  and he gave him the name Jesus.
+[2447.42 --> 2448.74]  This is the word of the Lord.
+[2454.48 --> 2459.92]  This year for Advent and Christmas, if you're visiting with us this morning
+[2459.92 --> 2461.68]  or checking us out for the first time,
+[2462.10 --> 2468.52]  we have been working towards this idea that we've called un-hallmark Christmas.
+[2468.52 --> 2475.88]  And by that, we've meant that we have been trying to sort of remove the layers of whitewashing
+[2475.88 --> 2481.46]  or misinformation or cultural fluff that have been added to the story
+[2481.46 --> 2485.06]  for so many generations, for so long,
+[2485.14 --> 2489.34]  that it has become hard to separate fact from fiction.
+[2489.34 --> 2493.90]  And I'll be honest with you,
+[2494.66 --> 2497.92]  doing this this past Christmas season,
+[2498.04 --> 2500.38]  these past four weeks or so,
+[2500.82 --> 2501.36]  has
+[2501.36 --> 2506.24]  has helped me love Christmas again.
+[2510.26 --> 2510.78]  Ordinarily,
+[2511.14 --> 2514.38]  I get really frustrated around this time of year
+[2514.38 --> 2518.60]  because of the way that the culture has sort of hijacked Christmas
+[2518.60 --> 2524.12]  and turned it into sleigh bells and Santa Clauses on every porch and corner.
+[2524.96 --> 2525.92]  And I confess,
+[2526.18 --> 2528.98]  it grates on me a little every year
+[2528.98 --> 2531.12]  when the radio stations that I listen to,
+[2531.18 --> 2532.40]  and there's really only two of them,
+[2533.02 --> 2535.96]  start playing Christmas music in mid-November.
+[2535.96 --> 2540.36]  But this year has been different,
+[2540.62 --> 2542.12]  and that's in large part because
+[2542.12 --> 2545.04]  of you and the work we've been doing here
+[2545.04 --> 2547.36]  and the conversations that have been developed.
+[2547.68 --> 2551.38]  And we've leaned into the rhythms of Advent
+[2551.38 --> 2554.20]  and the liturgy of waiting in the darkness
+[2554.20 --> 2557.20]  and waiting for that light to slowly,
+[2557.70 --> 2560.26]  slowly shine through a crack.
+[2560.26 --> 2563.12]  And I've really enjoyed with you
+[2563.12 --> 2564.60]  and with Pastor Kevin
+[2564.60 --> 2567.80]  pulling back the sort of Western cultural veil
+[2567.80 --> 2570.78]  and the hallmarking of Christmas that has happened.
+[2572.36 --> 2575.24]  I like the idea and the practice
+[2575.24 --> 2579.50]  of deconstructing cultural and religious ideologies
+[2579.50 --> 2580.84]  and idolatries.
+[2582.34 --> 2583.76]  And if you know me,
+[2584.10 --> 2586.40]  you know that I believe the church
+[2586.40 --> 2588.08]  is precisely the place
+[2588.08 --> 2590.46]  where these sorts of conversations should be happening.
+[2591.94 --> 2595.32]  And precisely because Christmas did happen,
+[2595.44 --> 2597.80]  that Jesus did come in history,
+[2597.96 --> 2601.72]  precisely because this is the greatest story ever told
+[2601.72 --> 2604.70]  and its greatness is largely owing to the fact
+[2604.70 --> 2605.80]  that it's real,
+[2606.10 --> 2610.78]  we constantly need to re-narrate our lives
+[2610.78 --> 2612.14]  in the truth of the gospel
+[2612.14 --> 2615.94]  and the truth of Jesus' come and his coming again.
+[2615.94 --> 2619.28]  And here's the thing about that
+[2619.28 --> 2622.40]  where I'd like to spend a little time with you this morning.
+[2623.72 --> 2625.54]  Because you see, this time of year
+[2625.54 --> 2630.08]  and our places in the world,
+[2631.32 --> 2633.44]  our responsibilities,
+[2634.28 --> 2637.22]  our idea of meaning, right?
+[2637.82 --> 2642.34]  Meaning comes from these stories.
+[2642.34 --> 2644.44]  That meaning is found,
+[2644.66 --> 2645.68]  it is identified,
+[2645.94 --> 2646.62]  it is made,
+[2646.74 --> 2647.84]  however you want to put it.
+[2648.14 --> 2651.10]  Meaning comes out of the story
+[2651.10 --> 2653.90]  that you are rooting yourself in.
+[2656.60 --> 2659.26]  I listened to a podcast recently
+[2659.26 --> 2662.20]  called The Four Horsemen of Meaning.
+[2662.58 --> 2663.50]  We can talk about it later.
+[2663.56 --> 2664.52]  I don't need to get into the details.
+[2664.66 --> 2665.62]  It's two and a half hours long.
+[2666.20 --> 2667.00]  But in there,
+[2667.08 --> 2668.90]  there was a whole conversation about meaning
+[2668.90 --> 2670.14]  and the source of meaning.
+[2670.26 --> 2672.32]  And the people in this conversation
+[2672.32 --> 2674.16]  was a cognitive scientist
+[2674.16 --> 2676.08]  and a psychoanalyst,
+[2676.44 --> 2678.02]  an art theologian,
+[2678.12 --> 2679.28]  and a Catholic bishop.
+[2680.14 --> 2682.44]  And the whole conversation was about meaning
+[2682.44 --> 2684.46]  and where meaning is found
+[2684.46 --> 2685.50]  or how we find it
+[2685.50 --> 2686.92]  and how we come by it.
+[2687.08 --> 2687.88]  And at one point,
+[2687.94 --> 2689.94]  one of the people in this conversation
+[2689.94 --> 2692.60]  said that meaning comes
+[2692.60 --> 2695.90]  from living in purposive relationship
+[2695.90 --> 2697.02]  to the true,
+[2697.34 --> 2697.76]  the good,
+[2697.84 --> 2698.60]  and the beautiful.
+[2700.32 --> 2701.58]  And as Christians,
+[2701.92 --> 2702.10]  right,
+[2702.14 --> 2703.60]  we know that the ultimate true,
+[2703.72 --> 2704.32]  the ultimate good,
+[2704.40 --> 2705.20]  the ultimate beautiful
+[2705.20 --> 2706.98]  is God.
+[2708.80 --> 2709.26]  Now,
+[2709.46 --> 2712.58]  I would add to that conversation
+[2712.58 --> 2715.76]  that the way that we have
+[2715.76 --> 2717.78]  a purposive relationship
+[2717.78 --> 2718.78]  to the true,
+[2718.92 --> 2719.28]  the good,
+[2719.34 --> 2720.00]  and the beautiful
+[2720.00 --> 2723.50]  is as God reveals himself
+[2723.50 --> 2725.76]  to us in his word.
+[2727.26 --> 2727.44]  Now,
+[2727.58 --> 2730.34]  let me be really clear with you,
+[2730.38 --> 2730.54]  right,
+[2730.62 --> 2732.14]  because all people,
+[2732.66 --> 2734.16]  whether or not they are Christian
+[2734.16 --> 2736.90]  or whether or not they call it as such,
+[2737.20 --> 2739.32]  all people have a relationship
+[2739.32 --> 2740.26]  to the true,
+[2740.38 --> 2740.66]  the good,
+[2740.70 --> 2741.30]  and the beautiful
+[2741.30 --> 2743.66]  or an idea of what the ultimate true,
+[2743.80 --> 2743.98]  good,
+[2744.06 --> 2745.48]  and beautiful is.
+[2746.36 --> 2747.90]  And as Reformed Christians,
+[2748.10 --> 2750.84]  as our branch of Christianity
+[2750.84 --> 2752.96]  and the Protestant stream,
+[2753.50 --> 2754.56]  as Reformed Christians,
+[2755.00 --> 2757.20]  we call that general sense
+[2757.20 --> 2758.12]  of relationship
+[2758.12 --> 2759.02]  to the true,
+[2759.14 --> 2759.30]  good,
+[2759.36 --> 2759.74]  and the beautiful,
+[2759.80 --> 2761.56]  we call that general revelation.
+[2762.52 --> 2762.62]  Right,
+[2762.70 --> 2763.74]  God reveals himself
+[2763.74 --> 2764.56]  to the world
+[2764.56 --> 2765.50]  in the order
+[2765.50 --> 2766.62]  and the majesty
+[2766.62 --> 2767.94]  and the magnitude
+[2767.94 --> 2769.30]  of creation.
+[2769.66 --> 2770.48]  God reveals himself
+[2770.48 --> 2771.08]  to the world
+[2771.08 --> 2772.02]  in its beauty.
+[2774.08 --> 2774.64]  But,
+[2774.98 --> 2776.46]  the way that you have
+[2776.46 --> 2777.74]  a purposive,
+[2778.10 --> 2778.26]  right,
+[2778.44 --> 2780.20]  a meaningful relationship
+[2780.20 --> 2780.90]  to God,
+[2781.00 --> 2781.44]  and thus,
+[2781.54 --> 2782.88]  the way that we understand
+[2782.88 --> 2783.86]  ultimate meaning
+[2783.86 --> 2785.36]  is only by
+[2785.36 --> 2787.40]  his special revelation,
+[2787.56 --> 2788.26]  is only by
+[2788.26 --> 2790.34]  his word,
+[2790.80 --> 2792.24]  by his story.
+[2793.16 --> 2793.38]  Now,
+[2793.86 --> 2794.98]  I get that right now
+[2794.98 --> 2795.66]  I'm at the risk
+[2795.66 --> 2796.74]  of losing some of you
+[2796.74 --> 2798.42]  because I'm talking
+[2798.42 --> 2799.66]  philosophy and theology,
+[2799.82 --> 2800.80]  and so let me just wrap that up
+[2800.80 --> 2801.58]  with this point.
+[2803.34 --> 2803.82]  Meaning,
+[2805.26 --> 2805.90]  individual
+[2805.90 --> 2807.68]  and personal,
+[2808.60 --> 2809.20]  meaning,
+[2809.46 --> 2809.98]  societal
+[2809.98 --> 2811.06]  and collective,
+[2811.72 --> 2812.98]  to not put too fine
+[2812.98 --> 2813.76]  a point on it,
+[2813.94 --> 2814.04]  right,
+[2814.08 --> 2815.06]  the very why
+[2815.06 --> 2815.80]  of life
+[2815.80 --> 2816.76]  and purpose
+[2816.76 --> 2818.56]  comes out of
+[2818.56 --> 2819.32]  living in
+[2819.32 --> 2820.04]  purposive
+[2820.04 --> 2820.92]  relationship
+[2820.92 --> 2821.90]  to God
+[2821.90 --> 2822.78]  as the one
+[2822.78 --> 2823.84]  true God
+[2823.84 --> 2824.52]  and the God
+[2824.52 --> 2825.44]  of truth,
+[2825.50 --> 2826.38]  as the only
+[2826.38 --> 2827.46]  ultimate good
+[2827.46 --> 2828.42]  and the overflowing
+[2828.42 --> 2829.84]  source of all good,
+[2829.94 --> 2830.66]  as the most
+[2830.66 --> 2831.24]  magnificent
+[2831.24 --> 2832.26]  and beautiful
+[2832.26 --> 2832.74]  being
+[2832.74 --> 2833.66]  as his glory
+[2833.66 --> 2835.16]  pours forth.
+[2836.58 --> 2837.52]  Any sense
+[2837.52 --> 2838.14]  of meaning
+[2838.14 --> 2839.84]  that you make,
+[2839.88 --> 2840.76]  or for any sense
+[2840.76 --> 2841.10]  of meaning
+[2841.10 --> 2841.58]  that you make
+[2841.58 --> 2842.76]  to have legs,
+[2842.98 --> 2843.94]  it needs to
+[2843.94 --> 2845.90]  walk in the story
+[2845.90 --> 2847.64]  of God's revelation
+[2847.64 --> 2848.88]  to the world.
+[2850.16 --> 2850.98]  I can't
+[2850.98 --> 2851.90]  understate this
+[2851.90 --> 2852.90]  point
+[2852.90 --> 2853.86]  at all
+[2853.86 --> 2854.78]  here now
+[2854.78 --> 2855.50]  at Christmas.
+[2856.66 --> 2858.08]  Who you are
+[2858.08 --> 2859.42]  is filled
+[2859.42 --> 2860.52]  up with meaning
+[2860.52 --> 2861.88]  and with purpose
+[2861.88 --> 2862.98]  as you are
+[2862.98 --> 2863.64]  found
+[2863.64 --> 2865.04]  in the story
+[2865.04 --> 2866.10]  of God.
+[2867.74 --> 2868.12]  And so,
+[2868.24 --> 2868.76]  by all means,
+[2869.12 --> 2869.86]  deconstruct
+[2869.86 --> 2870.52]  your faith,
+[2871.70 --> 2872.16]  but do it
+[2872.16 --> 2872.98]  in the context
+[2872.98 --> 2874.00]  of the community
+[2874.00 --> 2874.58]  of faith,
+[2875.38 --> 2875.52]  right,
+[2875.56 --> 2876.68]  make it your own,
+[2877.60 --> 2878.80]  ask hard questions,
+[2879.32 --> 2879.98]  expose
+[2879.98 --> 2881.56]  the competing
+[2881.56 --> 2882.32]  stories
+[2882.32 --> 2883.56]  of the culture
+[2883.56 --> 2884.32]  to the truth
+[2884.32 --> 2884.92]  of the gospel,
+[2885.20 --> 2885.38]  right,
+[2885.54 --> 2886.30]  unhallmark
+[2886.30 --> 2887.24]  your Christmases
+[2887.24 --> 2887.94]  because the very
+[2887.94 --> 2889.24]  meaning of your life
+[2889.24 --> 2891.06]  comes out of the story
+[2891.06 --> 2891.88]  that you are
+[2891.88 --> 2892.94]  rooting yourself in.
+[2895.44 --> 2896.96]  And it's been my prayer
+[2896.96 --> 2897.70]  throughout this
+[2897.70 --> 2899.06]  Christmas season
+[2899.06 --> 2900.34]  that we,
+[2900.56 --> 2900.92]  together,
+[2901.08 --> 2901.98]  would be rooted
+[2901.98 --> 2903.60]  in the true
+[2903.60 --> 2905.00]  story of
+[2905.00 --> 2905.84]  Jesus.
+[2906.40 --> 2907.06]  The real
+[2907.06 --> 2907.82]  Jesus.
+[2908.08 --> 2909.16]  The Jesus of
+[2909.16 --> 2909.70]  the Bible
+[2909.70 --> 2910.54]  and of history
+[2910.54 --> 2911.16]  because you see
+[2911.16 --> 2912.34]  the historical
+[2912.34 --> 2913.46]  Jesus is
+[2913.46 --> 2914.64]  the biblical
+[2914.64 --> 2915.80]  Jesus.
+[2917.24 --> 2918.88]  try as we
+[2918.88 --> 2919.24]  might
+[2919.24 --> 2919.56]  to
+[2919.56 --> 2920.98]  disenchant
+[2920.98 --> 2921.52]  our sense
+[2921.52 --> 2922.06]  of self
+[2922.06 --> 2922.68]  in the modern
+[2922.68 --> 2923.04]  world.
+[2923.20 --> 2924.32]  Try as the
+[2924.32 --> 2925.46]  pagan impulse
+[2925.46 --> 2925.90]  might
+[2925.90 --> 2926.96]  to limit
+[2926.96 --> 2928.00]  what is
+[2928.00 --> 2928.76]  here
+[2928.76 --> 2929.44]  to the
+[2929.44 --> 2929.86]  imminent
+[2929.86 --> 2930.46]  frame.
+[2930.82 --> 2931.70]  Try as we
+[2931.70 --> 2931.94]  might
+[2931.94 --> 2932.56]  to block
+[2932.56 --> 2933.12]  out the
+[2933.12 --> 2933.88]  transcendent
+[2933.88 --> 2934.48]  from breaking
+[2934.48 --> 2934.92]  in
+[2934.92 --> 2936.66]  and haunting
+[2936.66 --> 2937.86]  our reality
+[2937.86 --> 2938.62]  with a longing
+[2938.62 --> 2939.12]  for something
+[2939.12 --> 2939.38]  more.
+[2939.84 --> 2941.18]  Christmas time
+[2941.18 --> 2942.40]  reminds us
+[2942.40 --> 2943.16]  of that
+[2943.16 --> 2943.56]  something
+[2943.56 --> 2944.06]  more.
+[2944.06 --> 2945.40]  There's a
+[2945.40 --> 2946.04]  reason that
+[2946.04 --> 2946.94]  even the
+[2946.94 --> 2947.72]  strictest
+[2947.72 --> 2948.58]  secularist
+[2948.58 --> 2949.38]  feels something
+[2949.38 --> 2950.76]  magical about
+[2950.76 --> 2951.54]  Christmas.
+[2952.62 --> 2953.04]  There's a
+[2953.04 --> 2953.56]  reason why
+[2953.56 --> 2954.32]  even the
+[2954.32 --> 2954.62]  biggest
+[2954.62 --> 2955.04]  Grinch
+[2955.04 --> 2955.48]  can have
+[2955.48 --> 2956.00]  his heart
+[2956.00 --> 2956.84]  grown three
+[2956.84 --> 2957.32]  sizes
+[2957.32 --> 2958.18]  this time
+[2958.18 --> 2958.48]  of year.
+[2959.88 --> 2960.20]  No matter
+[2960.20 --> 2961.20]  how vehemently
+[2961.20 --> 2961.88]  the captives
+[2961.88 --> 2962.52]  and captains
+[2962.52 --> 2963.14]  of imminence
+[2963.14 --> 2963.62]  might say
+[2963.62 --> 2964.20]  otherwise,
+[2964.46 --> 2965.14]  the story
+[2965.14 --> 2965.78]  of God
+[2965.78 --> 2966.58]  in you
+[2966.58 --> 2967.60]  longs for
+[2967.60 --> 2968.04]  more,
+[2968.36 --> 2968.98]  especially
+[2968.98 --> 2969.98]  at times
+[2969.98 --> 2970.52]  like this.
+[2970.52 --> 2972.40]  In this
+[2972.40 --> 2973.76]  increasingly
+[2973.76 --> 2974.62]  disenchanted
+[2974.62 --> 2975.08]  world,
+[2975.48 --> 2975.82]  what we
+[2975.82 --> 2976.56]  need is
+[2976.56 --> 2977.54]  what C.S.
+[2977.62 --> 2978.88]  Lewis might
+[2978.88 --> 2979.46]  have called
+[2979.46 --> 2980.34]  an experience
+[2980.34 --> 2980.72]  of the
+[2980.72 --> 2981.10]  deeper
+[2981.10 --> 2981.94]  magic.
+[2983.02 --> 2984.10]  We need
+[2984.10 --> 2984.74]  a taste
+[2984.74 --> 2985.98]  of eternity
+[2985.98 --> 2987.56]  because,
+[2987.88 --> 2988.14]  as the
+[2988.14 --> 2988.58]  teacher
+[2988.58 --> 2989.60]  writing in
+[2989.60 --> 2990.28]  Ecclesiastes
+[2990.28 --> 2990.82]  says,
+[2991.20 --> 2991.94]  God has
+[2991.94 --> 2992.88]  set eternity
+[2992.88 --> 2993.86]  in every
+[2993.86 --> 2994.70]  human
+[2994.70 --> 2995.50]  heart.
+[2996.26 --> 2996.86]  And that,
+[2997.30 --> 2997.88]  my friends,
+[2998.10 --> 2998.58]  is what
+[2998.58 --> 2999.28]  Christmas
+[2999.28 --> 3000.44]  gives us
+[3000.44 --> 3001.16]  a glimpse
+[3001.16 --> 3002.20]  into.
+[3003.56 --> 3004.20]  Eternity
+[3004.20 --> 3004.90]  entered
+[3004.90 --> 3005.50]  into
+[3005.50 --> 3006.46]  time.
+[3010.72 --> 3011.58]  This is
+[3011.58 --> 3012.00]  how the
+[3012.00 --> 3012.42]  birth of
+[3012.42 --> 3012.72]  Jesus,
+[3012.98 --> 3013.46]  the Messiah,
+[3013.74 --> 3014.24]  came about.
+[3015.22 --> 3015.66]  Mary was
+[3015.66 --> 3016.18]  found to
+[3016.18 --> 3016.66]  be pregnant
+[3016.66 --> 3017.54]  through the
+[3017.54 --> 3018.32]  Holy Spirit.
+[3019.58 --> 3020.36]  The angel
+[3020.36 --> 3020.78]  of the Lord
+[3020.78 --> 3021.58]  appeared to
+[3021.58 --> 3022.36]  Joseph and
+[3022.36 --> 3022.66]  said,
+[3022.80 --> 3023.14]  what is
+[3023.14 --> 3023.72]  conceived
+[3023.72 --> 3024.36]  in her
+[3024.36 --> 3025.20]  is from
+[3025.20 --> 3025.86]  the Holy
+[3025.86 --> 3026.86]  Spirit.
+[3027.28 --> 3027.82]  All this
+[3027.82 --> 3028.56]  took place
+[3028.56 --> 3029.18]  to fulfill
+[3029.18 --> 3029.54]  what the
+[3029.54 --> 3029.96]  Lord had
+[3029.96 --> 3030.48]  said through
+[3030.48 --> 3030.98]  the prophet.
+[3031.34 --> 3031.76]  The virgin
+[3031.76 --> 3032.44]  will conceive
+[3032.44 --> 3032.98]  and give
+[3032.98 --> 3033.42]  birth to
+[3033.42 --> 3033.86]  a son,
+[3034.28 --> 3034.62]  and they
+[3034.62 --> 3035.20]  will call
+[3035.20 --> 3035.62]  him
+[3035.62 --> 3037.18]  Emmanuel,
+[3038.26 --> 3039.14]  which means
+[3039.14 --> 3040.20]  God
+[3040.20 --> 3041.62]  with us.
+[3042.32 --> 3042.64]  The
+[3042.64 --> 3043.78]  transcendent
+[3043.78 --> 3044.74]  has become
+[3044.74 --> 3045.44]  imminent.
+[3045.70 --> 3045.98]  God
+[3045.98 --> 3046.98]  with us.
+[3047.08 --> 3047.60]  Emmanuel,
+[3047.84 --> 3048.34]  the infinite
+[3048.34 --> 3049.20]  has become
+[3049.20 --> 3049.92]  finite.
+[3050.26 --> 3050.64]  God
+[3050.64 --> 3051.16]  became
+[3051.16 --> 3051.82]  man.
+[3051.96 --> 3052.24]  Let that
+[3052.24 --> 3053.00]  echo in your
+[3053.00 --> 3053.98]  hearts for a
+[3053.98 --> 3054.18]  moment.
+[3054.34 --> 3054.64]  God
+[3054.64 --> 3055.08]  became
+[3055.08 --> 3055.66]  man.
+[3055.76 --> 3055.98]  Let that
+[3055.98 --> 3056.86]  reverberate in
+[3056.86 --> 3058.02]  your imaginations
+[3058.02 --> 3058.68]  because the
+[3058.68 --> 3059.70]  true story of
+[3059.70 --> 3061.04]  Christmas is
+[3061.04 --> 3062.22]  the incarnation,
+[3062.64 --> 3062.90]  right, where
+[3062.90 --> 3063.88]  God took on
+[3063.88 --> 3064.60]  flesh to
+[3064.60 --> 3065.82]  ransom us.
+[3065.92 --> 3066.62]  The true story
+[3066.62 --> 3067.18]  of Christmas
+[3067.18 --> 3067.88]  is the
+[3067.88 --> 3068.94]  incarnation where
+[3068.94 --> 3069.84]  she will give
+[3069.84 --> 3070.54]  birth to a
+[3070.54 --> 3071.34]  son and you
+[3071.34 --> 3071.88]  are to give
+[3071.88 --> 3072.38]  him the name
+[3072.38 --> 3073.34]  Jesus because
+[3073.34 --> 3074.54]  he will save
+[3074.54 --> 3075.22]  his people
+[3075.22 --> 3076.22]  from their
+[3076.22 --> 3076.62]  sins.
+[3077.08 --> 3077.50]  Christmas
+[3077.50 --> 3079.08]  happens so
+[3079.08 --> 3079.74]  that God
+[3079.74 --> 3080.54]  can conquer
+[3080.54 --> 3081.52]  sin on the
+[3081.52 --> 3082.20]  cross by
+[3082.20 --> 3083.00]  giving us
+[3083.00 --> 3083.82]  an empty
+[3083.82 --> 3084.30]  tomb,
+[3084.30 --> 3085.22]  and anything
+[3085.22 --> 3086.02]  less just
+[3086.02 --> 3086.40]  isn't
+[3086.40 --> 3086.90]  Christmas.
+[3087.40 --> 3087.66]  Anything
+[3087.66 --> 3088.54]  less isn't
+[3088.54 --> 3089.36]  enough to
+[3089.36 --> 3089.94]  give you
+[3089.94 --> 3091.64]  meaning in
+[3091.64 --> 3092.40]  this life.
+[3093.88 --> 3094.48]  Meaning
+[3094.48 --> 3095.40]  comes out of
+[3095.40 --> 3096.54]  the story you
+[3096.54 --> 3097.28]  are rooting
+[3097.28 --> 3098.22]  yourself in
+[3098.22 --> 3098.92]  and for that
+[3098.92 --> 3099.58]  meaning to
+[3099.58 --> 3100.34]  last, for that
+[3100.34 --> 3100.92]  meaning to be
+[3100.92 --> 3101.68]  ultimate, really,
+[3101.94 --> 3102.42]  for that meaning
+[3102.42 --> 3103.04]  to be worth
+[3103.04 --> 3104.04]  anything at
+[3104.04 --> 3105.32]  all, the
+[3105.32 --> 3106.20]  story that
+[3106.20 --> 3106.86]  it's based
+[3106.86 --> 3107.88]  on needs to
+[3107.88 --> 3109.02]  be rooted
+[3109.02 --> 3110.56]  in history
+[3110.56 --> 3111.64]  and this
+[3111.64 --> 3113.98]  story, for
+[3113.98 --> 3114.38]  all of its
+[3114.38 --> 3115.92]  paradoxes and
+[3115.92 --> 3117.16]  mysteries, has
+[3117.16 --> 3117.98]  all the
+[3117.98 --> 3119.36]  hallmarks of
+[3119.36 --> 3120.98]  being true,
+[3121.60 --> 3123.04]  of actually
+[3123.04 --> 3124.16]  having
+[3124.16 --> 3125.22]  happened.
+[3127.14 --> 3127.98]  Matthew and
+[3127.98 --> 3129.30]  Luke tie
+[3129.30 --> 3130.04]  us to
+[3130.04 --> 3131.38]  history in
+[3131.38 --> 3131.94]  their gospel
+[3131.94 --> 3132.62]  accounts of
+[3132.62 --> 3133.38]  Jesus' birth by
+[3133.38 --> 3133.78]  giving us
+[3133.78 --> 3134.72]  genealogies,
+[3135.08 --> 3135.88]  which if you
+[3135.88 --> 3136.40]  were making
+[3136.40 --> 3137.04]  up these
+[3137.04 --> 3137.98]  stories, there
+[3137.98 --> 3138.56]  are certainly
+[3138.56 --> 3139.32]  unseemly
+[3139.32 --> 3140.46]  characters that
+[3140.46 --> 3140.76]  you would
+[3140.76 --> 3142.12]  omit, unless
+[3142.12 --> 3143.38]  the truth
+[3143.38 --> 3144.14]  of it matters
+[3144.14 --> 3144.70]  to you.
+[3145.50 --> 3146.22]  Because if the
+[3146.22 --> 3146.62]  truth of it
+[3146.62 --> 3147.06]  matters to
+[3147.06 --> 3147.44]  you, then
+[3147.44 --> 3148.32]  their inclusion
+[3148.32 --> 3149.32]  becomes an
+[3149.32 --> 3149.92]  argument for
+[3149.92 --> 3150.48]  the story's
+[3150.48 --> 3150.80]  truth.
+[3152.10 --> 3152.68]  The same can
+[3152.68 --> 3153.32]  be said about
+[3153.32 --> 3154.14]  the first
+[3154.14 --> 3155.46]  witnesses being
+[3155.46 --> 3156.38]  shepherds at
+[3156.38 --> 3156.96]  the birth of
+[3156.96 --> 3157.50]  Jesus and
+[3157.50 --> 3158.16]  women at the
+[3158.16 --> 3158.58]  resurrection.
+[3158.88 --> 3159.42]  If you were
+[3159.42 --> 3160.02]  making this
+[3160.02 --> 3160.98]  up, you
+[3160.98 --> 3161.50]  wouldn't have
+[3161.50 --> 3162.12]  used people
+[3162.12 --> 3162.82]  whose testimony
+[3162.82 --> 3163.64]  was legally
+[3163.64 --> 3164.72]  inadmissible and
+[3164.72 --> 3165.40]  so easily
+[3165.40 --> 3165.98]  dismissed.
+[3165.98 --> 3167.90]  Or likewise
+[3167.90 --> 3168.58]  with the
+[3168.58 --> 3169.24]  so-called
+[3169.24 --> 3169.96]  wise men,
+[3170.08 --> 3170.72]  the pagan
+[3170.72 --> 3171.56]  wizards,
+[3171.66 --> 3171.78]  right?
+[3171.82 --> 3172.24]  If you were
+[3172.24 --> 3172.78]  trying to
+[3172.78 --> 3173.54]  fabricate a
+[3173.54 --> 3174.28]  story of a
+[3174.28 --> 3175.48]  Jewish Messiah,
+[3175.66 --> 3176.08]  you wouldn't
+[3176.08 --> 3177.04]  have pagans
+[3177.04 --> 3177.76]  come from
+[3177.76 --> 3178.42]  Arabia to
+[3178.42 --> 3178.90]  praise him
+[3178.90 --> 3179.28]  while the
+[3179.28 --> 3180.10]  Jewish king
+[3180.10 --> 3180.60]  tries to
+[3180.60 --> 3181.34]  kill him,
+[3182.36 --> 3183.06]  taking on the
+[3183.06 --> 3183.46]  role of
+[3183.46 --> 3184.04]  Pharaoh in
+[3184.04 --> 3184.62]  that story.
+[3185.04 --> 3185.92]  Unless, in
+[3185.92 --> 3186.50]  all three of
+[3186.50 --> 3187.14]  these cases,
+[3187.48 --> 3187.88]  the truth
+[3187.88 --> 3188.72]  matters to
+[3188.72 --> 3189.46]  you, and
+[3189.46 --> 3190.46]  then those
+[3190.46 --> 3191.40]  things being
+[3191.40 --> 3192.18]  recorded as
+[3192.18 --> 3192.62]  such become
+[3192.62 --> 3193.40]  an argument for
+[3193.40 --> 3194.12]  the truth of
+[3194.12 --> 3194.78]  the story.
+[3195.98 --> 3196.48]  Right?
+[3196.56 --> 3197.22]  All throughout
+[3197.22 --> 3197.96]  this Advent
+[3197.96 --> 3198.84]  and Christmas
+[3198.84 --> 3199.58]  season, we
+[3199.58 --> 3200.06]  have been
+[3200.06 --> 3200.82]  going back
+[3200.82 --> 3201.14]  to the
+[3201.14 --> 3201.44]  true,
+[3201.76 --> 3202.34]  historical,
+[3202.84 --> 3203.62]  deep magic
+[3203.62 --> 3204.70]  story of
+[3204.70 --> 3205.34]  God at
+[3205.34 --> 3206.20]  work in
+[3206.20 --> 3206.66]  the world.
+[3207.76 --> 3208.44]  And yes,
+[3209.30 --> 3209.92]  some of our
+[3209.92 --> 3211.40]  expectations and
+[3211.40 --> 3212.18]  our hallmarked
+[3212.18 --> 3212.72]  versions of
+[3212.72 --> 3213.32]  the story have
+[3213.32 --> 3213.92]  been challenged,
+[3214.04 --> 3214.38]  they've been
+[3214.38 --> 3215.30]  deconstructed,
+[3215.34 --> 3215.94]  but the goal,
+[3216.10 --> 3216.84]  the hope,
+[3217.02 --> 3218.02]  has always been
+[3218.02 --> 3219.04]  to bring you
+[3219.04 --> 3220.48]  closer to
+[3220.48 --> 3221.04]  the true
+[3221.04 --> 3222.00]  Jesus, to
+[3222.00 --> 3222.94]  the real
+[3222.94 --> 3223.98]  Jesus.
+[3223.98 --> 3225.76]  Jesus, the
+[3225.76 --> 3226.22]  historical
+[3226.22 --> 3227.78]  Jesus, revealed
+[3227.78 --> 3229.06]  in the
+[3229.06 --> 3229.32]  Word of
+[3229.32 --> 3229.62]  God.
+[3230.74 --> 3231.40]  Because the
+[3231.40 --> 3232.94]  truth is, and
+[3232.94 --> 3233.60]  you know this,
+[3233.82 --> 3234.78]  right, 2,000
+[3234.78 --> 3236.04]  years later, over
+[3236.04 --> 3237.18]  10,000 kilometers
+[3237.18 --> 3237.90]  away, in a
+[3237.90 --> 3238.50]  whole different
+[3238.50 --> 3239.66]  culture, right,
+[3239.70 --> 3239.98]  in a different
+[3239.98 --> 3240.94]  time and space
+[3240.94 --> 3242.10]  and place, it
+[3242.10 --> 3243.74]  is so, so
+[3243.74 --> 3244.84]  easy to
+[3244.84 --> 3245.80]  substitute a
+[3245.80 --> 3246.82]  Jesus of our
+[3246.82 --> 3247.72]  own making
+[3247.72 --> 3249.02]  for the one
+[3249.02 --> 3249.46]  of the Bible.
+[3249.46 --> 3252.42]  So a really
+[3252.42 --> 3253.24]  great illustration
+[3253.24 --> 3255.38]  of this in
+[3255.38 --> 3255.84]  the book
+[3255.84 --> 3257.04]  American Gods
+[3257.04 --> 3257.84]  by Neil
+[3257.84 --> 3258.16]  Gaiman.
+[3258.78 --> 3259.80]  It's a fictional
+[3259.80 --> 3260.78]  story of a
+[3260.78 --> 3261.48]  whole pantheon
+[3261.48 --> 3262.12]  of gods who
+[3262.12 --> 3263.04]  are in the
+[3263.04 --> 3263.76]  midst fighting
+[3263.76 --> 3264.32]  amongst
+[3264.32 --> 3265.82]  themselves and
+[3265.82 --> 3266.52]  us for
+[3266.52 --> 3267.62]  attention as
+[3267.62 --> 3268.28]  the means by
+[3268.28 --> 3268.90]  which their
+[3268.90 --> 3269.66]  presence in
+[3269.66 --> 3270.22]  the world is
+[3270.22 --> 3270.66]  sustained.
+[3271.10 --> 3271.80]  This is an
+[3271.80 --> 3272.18]  illustration.
+[3272.98 --> 3273.88]  The TV
+[3273.88 --> 3275.00]  adaptation of
+[3275.00 --> 3276.52]  this novel
+[3276.52 --> 3277.18]  actually goes
+[3277.18 --> 3277.88]  even further to
+[3277.88 --> 3278.34]  the point that
+[3278.34 --> 3278.82]  we're about to
+[3278.82 --> 3279.00]  make.
+[3279.46 --> 3280.54]  In the TV
+[3280.54 --> 3281.12]  version of the
+[3281.12 --> 3282.20]  story, Mr.
+[3282.32 --> 3284.24]  Wednesday, who
+[3284.24 --> 3285.58]  is the American
+[3285.58 --> 3286.42]  version of the
+[3286.42 --> 3287.60]  Norse god Odin,
+[3288.12 --> 3288.92]  Wednesday is
+[3288.92 --> 3290.76]  Odin's day, and
+[3290.76 --> 3292.18]  Mr. Ibis, who
+[3292.18 --> 3293.14]  is the American
+[3293.14 --> 3293.86]  version of the
+[3293.86 --> 3294.64]  Egyptian god
+[3294.64 --> 3295.56]  Thoth, who
+[3295.56 --> 3296.48]  usually appears
+[3296.48 --> 3297.16]  as an Ibis
+[3297.16 --> 3298.96]  bird, they
+[3298.96 --> 3300.92]  both say that
+[3300.92 --> 3302.38]  you not only
+[3302.38 --> 3303.42]  have one Jesus
+[3303.42 --> 3305.24]  in our Western
+[3305.24 --> 3305.94]  culture, but you
+[3305.94 --> 3306.56]  have a bunch of
+[3306.56 --> 3307.86]  different Jesuses.
+[3308.34 --> 3308.74]  Mr.
+[3308.74 --> 3309.94]  Wednesday explains
+[3309.94 --> 3310.56]  to Shadow
+[3310.56 --> 3311.22]  Moon, who's the
+[3311.22 --> 3312.26]  protagonist, he
+[3312.26 --> 3312.68]  says you've got
+[3312.68 --> 3313.44]  your white Jesus
+[3313.44 --> 3314.00]  and your
+[3314.00 --> 3314.74]  Jesuit style
+[3314.74 --> 3315.38]  Jesus, your
+[3315.38 --> 3316.06]  black African
+[3316.06 --> 3316.80]  Jesus and your
+[3316.80 --> 3317.68]  Mexican Jesus
+[3317.68 --> 3318.32]  and your
+[3318.32 --> 3319.12]  swarthy Greek
+[3319.12 --> 3319.66]  Jesus.
+[3321.20 --> 3322.20]  And truthfully,
+[3322.64 --> 3323.70]  if you look
+[3323.70 --> 3324.34]  around, it goes
+[3324.34 --> 3325.22]  even further than
+[3325.22 --> 3325.56]  that.
+[3326.42 --> 3327.52]  Because in the
+[3327.52 --> 3328.60]  evangelical culture,
+[3328.74 --> 3329.28]  more generally,
+[3329.54 --> 3330.14]  you've got your
+[3330.14 --> 3331.28]  hyper-masculine
+[3331.28 --> 3331.82]  Jesus.
+[3333.04 --> 3333.50]  But then to
+[3333.50 --> 3334.26]  contrast that out,
+[3334.32 --> 3334.76]  you've got your
+[3334.76 --> 3335.60]  feminine Jesus,
+[3336.60 --> 3337.24]  you've got your
+[3337.24 --> 3338.16]  hipster Jesus,
+[3338.44 --> 3339.54]  and you've got
+[3339.54 --> 3339.98]  your hippie
+[3339.98 --> 3340.42]  Jesus.
+[3341.42 --> 3342.60]  It all depends
+[3342.60 --> 3343.60]  on what you
+[3343.60 --> 3344.44]  think you need
+[3344.44 --> 3344.96]  him for.
+[3345.60 --> 3346.38]  Or it all
+[3346.38 --> 3347.16]  depends on which
+[3347.16 --> 3348.64]  version of him
+[3348.64 --> 3350.50]  you like best
+[3350.50 --> 3351.40]  or find the
+[3351.40 --> 3352.48]  most palatable.
+[3354.56 --> 3355.48]  Another example
+[3355.48 --> 3356.02]  of this, and I
+[3356.02 --> 3356.58]  hesitate to tell
+[3356.58 --> 3356.90]  you that I've
+[3356.90 --> 3357.44]  seen this movie,
+[3357.54 --> 3358.34]  but in the movie
+[3358.34 --> 3359.30]  Talladega Nights,
+[3360.48 --> 3361.12]  Ricky Bobby
+[3361.12 --> 3362.92]  prays to baby
+[3362.92 --> 3364.50]  Jesus because he
+[3364.50 --> 3365.14]  likes the baby
+[3365.14 --> 3365.76]  Jesus better
+[3365.76 --> 3366.78]  because the baby
+[3366.78 --> 3367.28]  Jesus is going
+[3367.28 --> 3367.68]  to get him all
+[3367.68 --> 3368.04]  that money.
+[3370.62 --> 3371.82]  The reality is
+[3371.82 --> 3372.68]  some of you
+[3372.68 --> 3374.02]  prefer a Jesus
+[3374.02 --> 3375.30]  safely on the
+[3375.30 --> 3375.82]  pages of the
+[3375.82 --> 3376.40]  Bible and in
+[3376.40 --> 3377.38]  history, but not
+[3377.38 --> 3378.26]  active in the
+[3378.26 --> 3378.90]  world by the
+[3378.90 --> 3379.56]  Holy Spirit.
+[3380.04 --> 3380.72]  Some of us
+[3380.72 --> 3381.90]  prefer Jesus
+[3381.90 --> 3382.58]  who is a good
+[3382.58 --> 3383.70]  teacher, but we
+[3383.70 --> 3384.24]  don't think we
+[3384.24 --> 3384.96]  need any more
+[3384.96 --> 3386.14]  from him or of
+[3386.14 --> 3386.76]  him than that.
+[3387.18 --> 3388.10]  Sometimes we like
+[3388.10 --> 3388.96]  the idea of
+[3388.96 --> 3389.86]  Jesus as a
+[3389.86 --> 3391.28]  Savior, but not
+[3391.28 --> 3392.28]  as the Lord
+[3392.28 --> 3394.12]  of our lives.
+[3396.40 --> 3396.94]  I'm going to
+[3396.94 --> 3397.88]  let you, like
+[3397.88 --> 3398.70]  Mary, ponder
+[3398.70 --> 3399.56]  these things in
+[3399.56 --> 3401.08]  your heart, figure
+[3401.08 --> 3401.80]  out which one is
+[3401.80 --> 3401.98]  you.
+[3403.46 --> 3404.30]  I can tell you
+[3404.30 --> 3405.98]  for myself, for
+[3405.98 --> 3406.80]  the longest time,
+[3407.16 --> 3408.20]  I preferred the
+[3408.20 --> 3409.12]  Jesus of my
+[3409.12 --> 3410.22]  doctrines and my
+[3410.22 --> 3411.42]  theological systems
+[3411.42 --> 3413.14]  because ideas I
+[3413.14 --> 3413.94]  can grasp.
+[3415.04 --> 3416.18]  Ideas and systems
+[3416.18 --> 3417.14]  I can box up
+[3417.14 --> 3418.22]  nice and tidy,
+[3418.72 --> 3420.06]  and by being able
+[3420.06 --> 3420.74]  to box those
+[3420.74 --> 3421.54]  things up nice and
+[3421.54 --> 3422.36]  tidy, I can
+[3422.36 --> 3423.26]  exercise some
+[3423.26 --> 3425.88]  control in my
+[3425.88 --> 3426.56]  relationship to
+[3426.56 --> 3426.82]  God.
+[3427.84 --> 3429.12]  The reality of
+[3429.12 --> 3430.38]  Jesus active in
+[3430.38 --> 3431.26]  the world and in
+[3431.26 --> 3432.54]  my heart, demanding
+[3432.54 --> 3434.24]  my devotion and
+[3434.24 --> 3435.22]  every square inch
+[3435.22 --> 3436.20]  of my life was,
+[3436.48 --> 3436.84]  well, that was
+[3436.84 --> 3437.90]  harder to accept
+[3437.90 --> 3438.88]  and to come to
+[3438.88 --> 3439.84]  love and to
+[3439.84 --> 3440.60]  realize that I
+[3440.60 --> 3440.90]  need.
+[3442.78 --> 3443.86]  But if you are
+[3443.86 --> 3444.60]  hungry for
+[3444.60 --> 3447.24]  meaning, if this
+[3447.24 --> 3448.36]  Christmas you are
+[3448.36 --> 3449.42]  looking for a
+[3449.42 --> 3450.92]  purpose that lasts,
+[3450.92 --> 3452.90]  the truth is, you
+[3452.90 --> 3453.74]  are looking for
+[3453.74 --> 3455.14]  the real Jesus.
+[3457.22 --> 3459.22]  And so we all
+[3459.22 --> 3460.22]  together need to
+[3460.22 --> 3461.32]  stop accepting
+[3461.32 --> 3462.82]  substitutes or
+[3462.82 --> 3464.14]  fabrications or
+[3464.14 --> 3465.88]  lesser glories.
+[3466.70 --> 3467.94]  Come to the one
+[3467.94 --> 3468.86]  true God who
+[3468.86 --> 3470.54]  reveals himself in
+[3470.54 --> 3471.54]  his word because
+[3471.54 --> 3472.84]  he is the source
+[3472.84 --> 3474.40]  of your meaning.
+[3474.64 --> 3475.46]  Relationship to
+[3475.46 --> 3476.68]  him is the source
+[3476.68 --> 3477.84]  of your why.
+[3481.58 --> 3483.74]  Look, it's
+[3483.74 --> 3484.14]  Jesus.
+[3484.68 --> 3485.44]  It is this
+[3485.44 --> 3487.62]  Jesus revealed in
+[3487.62 --> 3489.08]  the Bible come in
+[3489.08 --> 3489.54]  history.
+[3489.90 --> 3490.88]  This Jesus who
+[3490.88 --> 3492.78]  was born a babe in
+[3492.78 --> 3493.80]  Bethlehem and
+[3493.80 --> 3494.76]  placed in a manger.
+[3495.16 --> 3495.94]  Jesus whom
+[3495.94 --> 3497.42]  shepherds praised
+[3497.42 --> 3498.14]  and pagans
+[3498.14 --> 3499.02]  magnified.
+[3499.38 --> 3500.42]  Jesus whose birth
+[3500.42 --> 3501.50]  was simultaneously
+[3501.50 --> 3503.08]  incredible for its
+[3503.08 --> 3504.18]  ordinariness but
+[3504.18 --> 3505.22]  anything but
+[3505.22 --> 3506.10]  ordinary.
+[3506.50 --> 3507.14]  Jesus who
+[3507.14 --> 3508.22]  lived the life I
+[3508.22 --> 3509.20]  should have lived
+[3509.20 --> 3509.94]  and Jesus who
+[3509.94 --> 3510.84]  died the death
+[3510.84 --> 3511.70]  that I deserved
+[3511.70 --> 3512.42]  and was raised
+[3512.42 --> 3513.28]  three days later
+[3513.28 --> 3514.46]  victorious over
+[3514.46 --> 3515.14]  sin and death.
+[3515.28 --> 3516.16]  Jesus who came
+[3516.16 --> 3517.26]  once as a babe
+[3517.26 --> 3518.02]  and will come
+[3518.02 --> 3519.24]  again as king
+[3519.24 --> 3520.18]  of the universe.
+[3520.58 --> 3522.04]  This Jesus is
+[3522.04 --> 3523.14]  calling to you
+[3523.14 --> 3524.64]  now and he's
+[3524.64 --> 3525.92]  saying find your
+[3525.92 --> 3527.92]  meaning with me.
+[3528.82 --> 3530.04]  The truth of his
+[3530.04 --> 3531.24]  coming and the
+[3531.24 --> 3532.10]  hopeful truth of
+[3532.10 --> 3533.26]  his coming again
+[3533.26 --> 3534.66]  is the story by
+[3534.66 --> 3535.46]  which you can
+[3535.46 --> 3537.00]  narrate your life
+[3537.00 --> 3538.52]  in which you can
+[3538.52 --> 3539.98]  find meaning.
+[3541.34 --> 3542.28]  And look, I
+[3542.28 --> 3545.08]  know that you
+[3545.08 --> 3545.70]  are wondering
+[3545.70 --> 3548.18]  and I know that
+[3548.18 --> 3549.22]  you are wandering
+[3549.22 --> 3551.34]  and I know that
+[3551.34 --> 3552.88]  especially right now
+[3552.88 --> 3553.34]  with all the
+[3553.34 --> 3555.14]  chaoses of life
+[3555.14 --> 3555.98]  and the confusion
+[3555.98 --> 3557.06]  and the anxiety,
+[3557.32 --> 3558.44]  I know that you
+[3558.44 --> 3559.36]  are looking for
+[3559.36 --> 3560.56]  meaning and for
+[3560.56 --> 3561.56]  purpose that will
+[3561.56 --> 3563.40]  last and here
+[3563.40 --> 3565.18]  now this Christmas
+[3565.18 --> 3567.70]  this is Jesus,
+[3568.00 --> 3569.46]  the real Jesus
+[3569.46 --> 3570.48]  and yes,
+[3570.62 --> 3571.74]  while he commands
+[3571.74 --> 3573.04]  everything from you,
+[3573.34 --> 3574.58]  he loves you
+[3574.58 --> 3576.00]  and yes,
+[3576.10 --> 3577.26]  his word might
+[3577.26 --> 3578.82]  sometimes be hard
+[3578.82 --> 3580.64]  but it is always,
+[3580.88 --> 3582.40]  always true
+[3582.40 --> 3583.82]  and yes,
+[3583.92 --> 3585.26]  sometimes life in him
+[3585.26 --> 3586.44]  isn't necessarily
+[3586.44 --> 3588.00]  safe but it is
+[3588.00 --> 3589.68]  always good.
+[3589.68 --> 3592.10]  and yes,
+[3592.30 --> 3594.32]  this Christmas,
+[3594.84 --> 3595.48]  the incarnation
+[3595.48 --> 3596.64]  might seem
+[3596.64 --> 3597.70]  impossible
+[3597.70 --> 3599.98]  but oh my
+[3599.98 --> 3601.06]  God with
+[3601.06 --> 3601.90]  us,
+[3602.38 --> 3602.66]  it
+[3602.66 --> 3604.18]  is
+[3604.18 --> 3605.56]  beautiful.
+[3606.64 --> 3607.02]  Amen?
+[3608.02 --> 3608.68]  Amen.
+[3609.02 --> 3609.42]  Let's pray.
+[3609.42 --> 3609.50]  Amen.
+[3609.50 --> 3615.56]  Lord Jesus Christ,
+[3615.96 --> 3617.12]  we make much
+[3617.12 --> 3617.80]  of you
+[3617.80 --> 3619.08]  in our worship
+[3619.08 --> 3619.92]  today
+[3619.92 --> 3620.64]  and so make
+[3620.64 --> 3621.54]  much of yourself
+[3621.54 --> 3623.00]  in our hearts.
+[3624.00 --> 3624.70]  May we find
+[3624.70 --> 3625.24]  our meaning
+[3625.24 --> 3626.66]  and our purpose
+[3626.66 --> 3628.32]  in relationship
+[3628.32 --> 3629.40]  to you
+[3629.40 --> 3631.82]  as you reveal
+[3631.82 --> 3632.44]  truth,
+[3632.56 --> 3633.20]  as you are
+[3633.20 --> 3634.32]  the source
+[3634.32 --> 3635.60]  of all good
+[3635.60 --> 3636.34]  and as you
+[3636.34 --> 3637.54]  are most
+[3637.54 --> 3638.56]  beautiful,
+[3638.78 --> 3639.52]  captivate
+[3639.52 --> 3641.20]  our imaginations
+[3641.20 --> 3642.90]  that we might
+[3642.90 --> 3643.76]  find ourselves
+[3643.76 --> 3645.28]  in your
+[3645.28 --> 3646.52]  story.
+[3648.14 --> 3649.10]  That we might
+[3649.10 --> 3650.08]  know our lives
+[3650.08 --> 3651.08]  by the life,
+[3651.26 --> 3651.46]  death,
+[3651.64 --> 3652.04]  resurrection
+[3652.04 --> 3652.98]  and exaltation
+[3652.98 --> 3654.06]  of Jesus.
+[3655.44 --> 3656.66]  That we might
+[3656.66 --> 3657.42]  know your
+[3657.42 --> 3658.24]  heart
+[3658.24 --> 3659.30]  for this world
+[3659.30 --> 3662.16]  that caused
+[3662.16 --> 3662.54]  you,
+[3662.74 --> 3663.48]  eternal God,
+[3663.58 --> 3664.22]  to enter
+[3664.22 --> 3665.96]  into time.
+[3666.16 --> 3666.66]  Emmanuel,
+[3667.42 --> 3667.82]  God,
+[3668.02 --> 3669.88]  with us.
+[3671.44 --> 3672.40]  And so now,
+[3672.54 --> 3673.04]  Lord God,
+[3673.16 --> 3673.92]  this Christmas
+[3673.92 --> 3674.40]  day,
+[3674.88 --> 3676.08]  go with us
+[3676.08 --> 3677.32]  that we might
+[3677.32 --> 3678.92]  go with you.
+[3680.76 --> 3681.76]  Christ Jesus,
+[3681.90 --> 3682.32]  we pray.
+[3682.32 --> 3683.82]  Amen.
+[3694.22 --> 3714.08]  thingsS
+[3716.20 --> 3721.10]  and majesty,
+[3721.10 --> 3724.98]  Manhood and deity
+[3724.98 --> 3728.72]  In perfect harmony
+[3728.72 --> 3733.18]  The man who is God
+[3733.18 --> 3736.34]  Lord of eternity
+[3736.34 --> 3740.26]  Dwells in humanity
+[3740.26 --> 3743.98]  Kneels in humility
+[3743.98 --> 3747.98]  And washes our feet
+[3747.98 --> 3751.84]  Oh, what a mystery
+[3751.84 --> 3755.66]  Heakness and majesty
+[3755.66 --> 3761.46]  Bow down and worship
+[3761.46 --> 3769.48]  For this is your God
+[3769.48 --> 3777.96]  Father's pure mania
+[3777.96 --> 3781.64]  Perfect in innocence
+[3781.64 --> 3784.64]  Yet learns obedience
+[3784.64 --> 3789.70]  To death on a cross
+[3789.70 --> 3793.52]  Suffering to give us life
+[3793.52 --> 3796.64]  Longering through sacrifice
+[3796.64 --> 3799.64]  And as they crucify
+[3799.64 --> 3803.64]  Praise Father, forgive
+[3803.64 --> 3807.32]  Oh, what a mystery
+[3807.32 --> 3812.00]  Meekness and majesty
+[3812.00 --> 3817.68]  Bow down and worship
+[3817.68 --> 3825.74]  For this is your God
+[3825.74 --> 3834.42]  Wisdom unsearchable
+[3834.42 --> 3837.42]  God the invisible
+[3837.42 --> 3841.42]  Love indestructible
+[3841.42 --> 3845.42]  In frailty of years
+[3845.42 --> 3849.10]  Lord of infinity
+[3849.10 --> 3850.10]  Lord of infinity
+[3850.10 --> 3854.10]  Stormings all tenderly
+[3854.10 --> 3857.10]  Lift our humanity
+[3857.10 --> 3861.10]  To the heights of His throne
+[3861.10 --> 3864.78]  Oh, what a mystery
+[3864.78 --> 3864.84]  Oh, what a mystery
+[3864.84 --> 3868.78]  Meekness and majesty
+[3868.78 --> 3874.46]  Thou doubt and worship
+[3874.46 --> 3882.46]  For this is your God
+[3882.46 --> 3886.14]  Lord of infinity
+[3886.14 --> 3899.14]  As you go into today
+[3899.14 --> 3902.00]  Whatever that is going to look like
+[3902.00 --> 3902.82]  For you
+[3902.82 --> 3904.94]  Go first with an invitation
+[3904.94 --> 3907.78]  Know that we gather tomorrow
+[3907.78 --> 3909.26]  On Sunday for worship
+[3909.26 --> 3911.40]  At our regularly scheduled time
+[3911.40 --> 3912.50]  Of 10 a.m.
+[3913.18 --> 3914.26]  And we will continue
+[3914.26 --> 3918.32]  The story of Jesus' life together
+[3918.32 --> 3920.82]  And second as you go
+[3920.82 --> 3923.58]  Go with God's blessing
+[3923.58 --> 3924.82]  I invite you to receive
+[3924.82 --> 3925.46]  God's blessing
+[3925.46 --> 3928.02]  For the day and days ahead
+[3928.02 --> 3931.64]  May God go before you
+[3931.64 --> 3932.96]  To lead you
+[3932.96 --> 3935.34]  May God go behind you
+[3935.34 --> 3936.62]  To guard you
+[3936.62 --> 3938.78]  May God go beneath you
+[3938.78 --> 3939.86]  To support you
+[3939.86 --> 3941.94]  May God go beside you
+[3941.94 --> 3943.06]  To befriend you
+[3943.06 --> 3945.58]  Do not be afraid
+[3945.58 --> 3947.70]  Let the blessing of God
+[3947.70 --> 3948.64]  Come upon you today
+[3948.64 --> 3950.66]  Do not be afraid
+[3950.66 --> 3953.34]  But go in peace
+[3953.34 --> 3956.36]  To love and serve the Lord
+[3956.36 --> 3958.16]  Amen
+[3958.16 --> 3966.92]  Let the wilderness
+[3966.92 --> 3968.98]  And the towns
+[3968.98 --> 3970.20]  Raise their voices
+[3970.20 --> 3972.14]  Let them shout
+[3972.14 --> 3973.66]  From the mountaintops
+[3977.70 --> 3983.34]  Go tell it on the mountain
+[3983.34 --> 3987.96]  Over the hills and everywhere
+[3987.96 --> 3992.14]  Go tell it on the mountain
+[3992.14 --> 3996.50]  That Jesus Christ is born
+[3996.50 --> 4000.90]  While shepherds kept their watching
+[4000.90 --> 4003.86]  Or silent flocks
+[4003.86 --> 4004.86]  By night
+[4004.86 --> 4006.82]  Behold the world
+[4006.82 --> 4007.82]  Behold the world
+[4007.82 --> 4008.82]  The heavens
+[4008.82 --> 4012.82]  There shone a holy light
+[4012.82 --> 4017.82]  Go tell it on the mountain
+[4017.82 --> 4019.82]  Go tell it on the mountain
+[4019.82 --> 4024.14]  Over the hills and everywhere
+[4024.14 --> 4028.20]  Go tell it on the mountain
+[4028.20 --> 4032.22]  That Jesus Christ is born
+[4032.22 --> 4033.22]  The shepherds
+[4033.22 --> 4037.18]  The shepherds feared and trembled
+[4037.18 --> 4041.18]  Yet low upon the earth
+[4041.18 --> 4043.14]  Rang out the angels
+[4043.14 --> 4045.14]  Rang out the angels' chorus
+[4045.14 --> 4049.78]  That hailed our Savior's birth
+[4049.78 --> 4055.14]  Go tell it on the mountain
+[4055.14 --> 4059.44]  Over the hills and everywhere
+[4059.44 --> 4063.44]  Go tell it on the mountain
+[4063.44 --> 4067.40]  That Jesus Christ is born
+[4067.40 --> 4068.24]  That Jesus Christ is born
+[4068.24 --> 4071.90]  Down in the lowly stable
+[4071.90 --> 4076.36]  The humble Christ was born
+[4076.36 --> 4080.36]  And God sent us salvation
+[4080.36 --> 4085.24]  That blessed Christmas morn
+[4085.24 --> 4090.20]  Go tell it on the mountain
+[4090.20 --> 4095.20]  Over the hills and everywhere
+[4095.20 --> 4099.08]  Go tell it on the mountain
+[4099.08 --> 4103.20]  That Jesus Christ is born
+[4103.20 --> 4118.56]  A Christmas tradition in our church
+[4118.56 --> 4121.12]  that is reflective of the Dutch heritage
+[4121.12 --> 4122.66]  of some of our members
+[4122.66 --> 4125.48]  is to close the Christmas Day service
+[4125.48 --> 4127.38]  with this next song
+[4127.38 --> 4129.34]  Glory to God
+[4129.34 --> 4132.04]  We will have the words on the screen
+[4132.04 --> 4134.14]  in both English and Dutch languages
+[4134.14 --> 4137.08]  and encourage everyone to join us
+[4137.08 --> 4138.28]  in singing together
+[4138.28 --> 4140.60]  in whichever language you prefer
+[4140.60 --> 4165.80]  angé
+[4165.80 --> 4170.80]  In the highest
+[4170.80 --> 4175.80]  In your heart
+[4176.50 --> 4179.80]  Please be your love
+[4180.58 --> 4185.24]  In the peace and the well
+[4185.24 --> 4189.80]  Delighted
+[4189.80 --> 4197.80]  Is it all in the highest
+[4197.80 --> 4206.80]  Is it all in the highest
+[4206.80 --> 4211.80]  Please be your love
+[4211.80 --> 4215.80]  Please be your love
+[4215.80 --> 4220.80]  May you, O Mother
+[4220.80 --> 4225.80]  May you, O Mother
+[4225.80 --> 4229.80]  To live all the things
+[4229.80 --> 4231.80]  In the highest
+[4231.80 --> 4232.80]  In the highest
+[4232.80 --> 4236.80]  In the highest
+[4236.80 --> 4239.80]  And not delighting
+[4239.80 --> 4252.28]  oh
+[4255.80 --> 4262.52]  in the
+[4262.52 --> 4281.40]  Praise me on earth, praise me on earth, through the peace that God delights in.
+[4281.40 --> 4290.56]  Amen, amen.
+[4292.52 --> 4295.72]  Peace be with you.
+[4322.52 --> 4324.52]  Amen.
+[4324.52 --> 4326.52]  Amen.
+[4326.52 --> 4328.52]  Amen.
+[4328.52 --> 4330.52]  Amen.
+[4330.52 --> 4332.52]  Amen.
+[4332.52 --> 4334.52]  Amen.
+[4334.52 --> 4336.52]  Amen.
+[4336.52 --> 4338.52]  Amen.
+[4338.52 --> 4368.50]  Thank you.
+[4368.52 --> 4398.50]  Thank you.
+[4398.52 --> 4428.50]  Thank you.
+[4428.52 --> 4458.50]  Thank you.
+[4458.52 --> 4460.52]  Thank you.
+[4488.52 --> 4490.52]  Thank you.
+[4518.52 --> 4520.52]  Thank you.
+[4548.52 --> 4550.52]  Thank you.
+[4578.52 --> 4580.52]  Thank you.

Confusion, Chaos, and a Call to Worship (Sermon)_summary.txt

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+• Introduction to a new series on Habakkuk
+• Reading and interpretation of Habakkuk 1:1-13
+• Addressing the problem of evil and suffering in relation to God's goodness and power
+• Personal story of crisis of faith and spiritual depression
+• Connection between the problem of evil and Habakkuk's experience
+• Acknowledging that many people struggle with similar doubts and questions
+• Habakkuk's struggle with evil in the world
+• The problem of why evil exists
+• God's sovereignty and reasons for all things, including evil
+• Historical context: the prophet Habakkuk, Judah, and Babylon
+• The background to Habakkuk's prophecy: Babylon's rise to power, defeat of Assyria, and conflict with Egypt
+• Judah's history with Babylon: from allies to vassal state
+• The betrayal felt by Judah towards Babylon
+• The local concerns in Judah: corruption and abuse of religious leaders, the paralyzed law, and injustice
+• Habakkuk's cry out to God amidst evil and suffering
+• Habakkuk's reaction to the abuses of power and exploitation of the poor in his world
+• The problem of evil and why God allows suffering and injustice to exist
+• The limitation of human perspective and understanding of God's intentions
+• The concept of sovereignty and control, with God being in charge of all history
+• Humility and trusting that God can be God despite not knowing the reasons for suffering
+• The Christian God's sovereignty and plan amidst human suffering
+• Peter Kreeft's quote on the Christian God deliberately experiencing pain through Jesus Christ
+• Christianity providing resources for facing suffering with hope and courage
+• Trusting in God's goodness despite evil and injustice in the world
+• Worship as a response to evil, doubts, and hardships, leading to rest for one's soul
+• The importance of community in times of crisis and struggle

Confusion, Chaos, and a Call to Worship (Sermon)_transcript.txt

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+[0.00 --> 10.38]  this morning in our worship we're gonna start a new series together we're gonna
+[10.38 --> 20.94]  spend the next few weeks looking at the book of Habakkuk Habakkuk Mr. Eric there's one B not
+[20.94 --> 28.08]  Habakkuk so we're gonna spend our time in Habakkuk and we're gonna read this morning the first 13
+[28.08 --> 34.26]  verses and so really encourage you as always to open a Bible have that up on your phone whatever
+[34.26 --> 39.92]  the case may be it will also be on the screen but if you have a Bible or with your phone in hand you
+[39.92 --> 48.38]  can refer back as we go through I'm going to read starting at verse 1 through to verse 13.
+[48.38 --> 60.80]  The Oracle that Habakkuk the prophet received how long oh Lord must I call for help but you do not
+[60.80 --> 68.86]  listen or cry out to you violence but you do not save why do you make me look at injustice why do
+[68.86 --> 74.98]  you tolerate wrong destruction and violence are before me there is strife and conflict abounds
+[74.98 --> 83.76]  therefore the law is paralyzed and justice never prevails the wicked hem in the righteous so that
+[83.76 --> 92.00]  justice is perverted look at the nations and watch and be utterly amazed for I am going to do something
+[92.00 --> 100.90]  in your days that you would not believe even if I told you I am raising up the Babylonians that
+[100.90 --> 107.48]  are ruthless and impetuous people who sweep across the whole earth to seize dwelling places not their
+[107.48 --> 113.86]  own they are a feared and dreaded people they are a law unto themselves and promote their own honor
+[113.86 --> 121.56]  their horses are swifter than leopards fiercer than wolves at dusk their cavalry gallops headlong
+[121.56 --> 130.40]  their horsemen come from afar they fly like a vulture swooping to devour they all come bent on violence
+[130.40 --> 138.64]  their hordes advance like a desert wind and gather prisoners like sand they deride kings and scoff at
+[138.64 --> 145.10]  rulers they laugh at fortified cities they build earth and ramps and capture them then they sweep past
+[145.10 --> 155.76]  like the wind and go on guilty men whose own strength is their God oh Lord are you not from everlasting
+[155.76 --> 164.60]  my God my holy one we will not die oh Lord you have appointed them to execute judgment oh rock you have
+[164.60 --> 174.96]  ordained them to punish your eyes are too pure to look on evil you cannot tolerate wrong why then do you
+[174.96 --> 185.28]  tolerate the treacherous why are you silent while the wicked swallow up those more righteous than themselves
+[185.28 --> 187.76]  this is the word of the Lord
+[187.76 --> 206.48]  as we begin together this morning i am well aware of what our experience has been for the past year
+[206.48 --> 215.76]  and we are well aware of the unknown and the confusion and the chaos that exists in the midst of the right now
+[215.76 --> 224.56]  a series that we are beginning this morning i'm calling wrecked and worshiping and it comes out of a context
+[224.56 --> 232.72]  in which many of us are just feeling wrecked and weak and overwhelmed with everything that has been going on
+[232.72 --> 243.12]  now as we jump into this first know that you are not alone that we are all experiencing this together
+[243.12 --> 250.16]  and we all have these kinds of experiences and out of that we all ask the same sorts of questions and so
+[250.16 --> 258.00]  let's ask those questions today together i'll begin with a bit of a personal story
+[260.00 --> 269.28]  a number of years ago while i was still in seminary i had what you know i would call rightly i think a crisis
+[269.28 --> 276.88]  of faith i was in seminary and i was taking a graduate level class on post-enlightenment philosophy
+[276.88 --> 283.60]  and i was reading a lot of books and a lot of essays from people who were just opposed to orthodox
+[283.60 --> 289.68]  biblical christianity and these authors in their writing right would challenge the authority of the bible
+[289.68 --> 297.44]  they would attempt to kind of dismantle the claims of authority of faith and the rationality of faith and
+[297.44 --> 303.76]  they would challenge right from the very existence of god on the basis of reason or science or logic or
+[303.76 --> 314.88]  history or whatever the case may have been i was reading this all and unfortunately due to the busyness of
+[314.88 --> 321.92]  my schedule in school i didn't make time to read other things to read good things constructive things
+[321.92 --> 333.36]  devotional things helpful things and so i was eventually consumed by the chaos of this thinking
+[333.36 --> 341.92]  and thought and i began to slide and slide and slide and i slipped into a time that can only be called
+[341.92 --> 349.68]  spiritual depression right and maybe faith apathy and for a couple of months maybe even half a year
+[349.68 --> 360.48]  my friends and i would argue and debate and we would fight and i would push buttons and i would raise concerns
+[360.48 --> 368.56]  and i would make arguments against faith and christianity together and i was in seminary remember
+[369.20 --> 374.24]  and a good seminary at that it got dark in my heart
+[374.24 --> 385.52]  and i would challenge my friends and my professors and myself and how could god let this kind of thing
+[385.52 --> 393.52]  happen right how could god create a world in which he knew there would be sin right right down to the
+[393.52 --> 400.08]  sometimes more complicated questions of why is there no external evidence for the resurrection of jesus don't
+[400.08 --> 405.28]  you think that the annals of roman history would have recorded something as significant or important as that
+[408.00 --> 413.20]  really i was in deep and i was spiraling out of control
+[415.28 --> 423.36]  i suspect many of you if not all of us know what that's like right i was in seminary training to be a
+[423.36 --> 428.88]  minister of the word and i had these doubts i had this crisis of faith i had this spiritual depression
+[428.88 --> 434.40]  and if church leaders like me or future church leaders back then like me can face those kinds of
+[434.40 --> 443.12]  things surely everyone does i know that many of us had these sorts of struggles maybe you aren't sure
+[443.12 --> 451.44]  what to believe or if you believe or even if belief is possible maybe you're there right now maybe you're here
+[451.44 --> 459.92]  looking for answers maybe you know someone who's there right now maybe you have questions but you don't
+[459.92 --> 469.92]  know who to ask or how to ask them whatever the case may be i think we all know what it is to have a crisis of faith
+[471.76 --> 479.20]  now the sort of pinnacle of my crisis of faith or maybe we could say the deepest part of my crisis of faith
+[479.20 --> 485.44]  came down to one thing and that's what i now know to be called the problem of evil
+[486.88 --> 492.72]  right really simply if god was truly good and loving and all-powerful then he wouldn't let people
+[492.72 --> 499.44]  who love him go through these bad things right since good people go through evil things either
+[499.44 --> 505.36]  god isn't good or he isn't all-powerful in which case in either case he wouldn't be god
+[505.36 --> 514.56]  that's the question really that's the state of belief that we will address this morning that
+[514.56 --> 522.24]  habakkuk is finding himself in the middle of this is habakkuk's struggle it is our struggle it's really
+[522.24 --> 526.24]  every human person's struggle whether you have a religious answer to it or not
+[526.24 --> 536.32]  why is there evil in the world what i hope and it's my prayer that this morning we will see that
+[536.32 --> 544.16]  that god is bigger than our struggles with evil that evil has been decisively dealt with in history
+[544.16 --> 554.32]  and that for god to be god he must have his reasons for everything we face in life even the evil things
+[554.32 --> 562.48]  now to get there this morning we start with the back now let me set the stage for you with a little
+[562.48 --> 567.76]  bit of history and i'll try to do this quickly because i know not everybody loves history the way that i do
+[569.20 --> 576.24]  in actual fact we know very little about the prophet habakkuk right who he is and what he did as a prophet
+[576.24 --> 582.64]  whether he was in the official temple system as a prophet or if he was outside the official system as one
+[582.64 --> 590.88]  especially called by god but we can figure out when he roughly prophesied right habakkuk is a prophet in
+[590.88 --> 601.20]  judah which is the southern kingdom and it's around 600 to 610 bc and so it's near what we now call the
+[601.20 --> 608.88]  end of the first temple period right these are the last kings in israel and judah for those of us who
+[608.88 --> 616.40]  know the sort of bigger story of the drama of redemption we might say that this is near the beginning
+[617.12 --> 625.12]  of the exile period which started in 586 bc with the fall of jerusalem so what's happening on the global scale is
+[625.12 --> 634.80]  the babylonians are shifting the balance of power now we have a map that's going to appear on screen and that will
+[634.80 --> 641.04]  help you see what's going on and where it's happening as i tell the story and you see the map there those
+[641.04 --> 647.68]  circles and the legend down the side moves through in the manner in which i will tell the story one through
+[647.68 --> 657.36]  six i think it is so israel and then later the smaller judah have been allies with the babylonians
+[657.36 --> 665.76]  going back to when they were first called the chaldeans in 705 bc you have king hezekiah king
+[665.76 --> 671.84]  hezekiah this happens in the time of the prophet isaiah to draw some lines for you isaiah also prophet
+[671.84 --> 678.88]  prophesied about the exile that would come hezekiah who is king worked with the chaldeans to repel
+[678.88 --> 685.44]  the armies of one sennacherib as he marched through israel down towards jerusalem
+[685.44 --> 693.28]  now a century later the chaldeans now the sort of neo-babylonians right have defeated assyria who
+[693.28 --> 700.24]  had an empire in 612 with the fall of nineveh nineveh was the capital city of the assyrian empire
+[701.52 --> 710.32]  and in 609 bc the egyptians start marching their way east and north through the the crescent of the
+[710.32 --> 717.20]  around the mediterranean in a last ditch attempt to partner with the assyrians to defeat the
+[717.20 --> 726.24]  babylonians in the battle of haran but this time as the egyptians marched through king josiah of judah
+[726.24 --> 732.24]  would come with the armies of judah and he would attempt to stop the advancement of the egyptians
+[732.24 --> 741.12]  who were led by pharaoh neko the second now king josiah is killed in this battle at megiddo trying
+[741.12 --> 749.60]  to help their allies the babylonians in 605 you have the battle of carcamesh that happens on the
+[749.60 --> 756.64]  euphrates river and here the babylonians finally and decisively defeat the egyptians and send them back
+[756.64 --> 765.76]  to egypt now all around the region of syria and israel the babylonians have taken over and this
+[765.76 --> 772.88]  battle after this battle rather the babylonians that come in and annex judah they take control of the
+[772.88 --> 780.64]  region of judah and they start treating them as a hostile vassal state as you see backtracking just a
+[780.64 --> 789.68]  few years after josiah is killed in the battle at megiddo pharaoh neko the second left his armies in
+[789.68 --> 797.36]  the region as they continued on to go battle against the babylonians and he returned with a group back
+[797.36 --> 804.08]  to egypt and on his way through jerusalem returning back to egypt he deposed the new king who was the
+[804.08 --> 813.20]  younger son of josiah jehoah has and took him back to egypt as a prisoner and instead he installed jehoiakim
+[813.20 --> 822.56]  another son of josiah as a puppet king now jehoiakim agreed to and paid the levy that egypt imposed on
+[822.56 --> 831.92]  judah now jehoiakim gets very little on the pages of the bible but in second kings 23 verse 37 it says
+[831.92 --> 841.04]  that he did evil in the eyes of the lord just as his predecessors had done but still even with that
+[841.04 --> 850.40]  happening many in judah would have considered babylon's actions a betrayal because they had been historical
+[850.40 --> 852.24]  allies for a century
+[852.24 --> 858.40]  and so you can imagine how habakkuk feels
+[860.88 --> 870.88]  when the lord says i am raising up babylon to exercise my justice right part of the evil that
+[870.88 --> 878.72]  habakkuk is reacting to right that babylon betrayed them that's why he calls them a treacherous people in
+[878.72 --> 886.96]  verse 13 right and the word that's used there in hebrew can mean disloyal or betrayers right that's why
+[888.00 --> 897.04]  habakkuk feels so torn now this is sort of the global backdrop and if the map is still up we can take
+[897.04 --> 903.36]  that down this is sort of the global backdrop to what's going on right there's warfare and there's
+[903.36 --> 911.04]  evil everywhere and judah is caught up in the middle of it right they are dying and they're being taken
+[911.04 --> 920.88]  prisoner right evil is literally to the north and south and east and it's pressing in on them with vigor
+[923.04 --> 930.16]  but there's also a more local concern that's causing habakkuk to cry out to the lord
+[930.16 --> 936.88]  i've already mentioned two names that we can come back to here right king josiah and king jehoiakim
+[938.00 --> 945.44]  now josiah as king instituted a number of reforms in jerusalem and really brought the people back to
+[945.44 --> 953.60]  a more biblical faith and a more biblical practice of worship but before him and after him the religious
+[953.60 --> 961.28]  and political leadership are corrupt and even abusive right look at what habakkuk says in in verse 4 he
+[961.28 --> 969.28]  says the law is paralyzed and justice never prevails now that word translated paralyzed can mean numb
+[970.08 --> 975.60]  right like when your foot falls asleep and you try to stand only to find that you just collapse to the
+[975.60 --> 983.52]  floor and fall over right the rulers and rule of law have become numb to the plight of ordinary citizens
+[985.68 --> 994.56]  there's a general uh biblical scholarly consensus that habakkuk is reacting to the abuses of power
+[994.56 --> 1001.28]  that have further marginalized the poor and exploited the less privileged and we know from the rest of the
+[1001.28 --> 1008.48]  the bible that jehoiakim is accused of dishonest gain he has forced people into unpaid labor to build his
+[1008.48 --> 1015.44]  houses he's taxed people to pay the levy that the egyptians have imposed we know that jehoiakim is
+[1015.44 --> 1021.76]  implicated in the obstruction of justice in the shedding of innocent blood and in the murder of prophets
+[1021.76 --> 1033.68]  the point is evil and injustice are everywhere globally the babylonians have betrayed them and locally the
+[1033.68 --> 1043.20]  king has never looked out for them the moral order of habakkuk's world has been upended things aren't the way
+[1043.20 --> 1051.12]  they should be evil prevails over good injustice over justice death over life and habakkuk cries out and
+[1051.12 --> 1060.88]  says since god is good his world should be good too but in habakkuk's eyes it's not that's the problem
+[1062.48 --> 1069.92]  and like we said i'm gonna guess that that's not just habakkuk's problem right and in fact it's not just
+[1069.92 --> 1078.32]  an intellectual issue right a question to be answered right every single person who says they are a
+[1078.32 --> 1085.92]  christian or a theist really of any stripe has to wrestle with the question if god is god and god is
+[1085.92 --> 1092.96]  good why is there evil in the world but like i said it's not just an intellectual issue for us right
+[1092.96 --> 1101.44]  there are racial tensions and realities that beg the question why god there are issues of poverty and hunger
+[1101.44 --> 1108.00]  globally and locally that beg the question if you are good why is there so much bad right there are
+[1108.00 --> 1114.48]  issues of violence against women and children of issues of parents losing children of marriages
+[1114.48 --> 1121.04]  breaking up that beg the question that cause us to cry out like we began our worship this morning how long
+[1121.04 --> 1132.96]  oh lord we've got cancer and covid and countless others chronic diseases that rob us of life and the ability
+[1132.96 --> 1142.00]  to live things aren't the way they should be evil prevails over good injustice over justice life over death
+[1142.00 --> 1148.24]  and since god is good his world should be good too but in so many ways it's not
+[1150.56 --> 1153.12]  how long oh lord
+[1156.56 --> 1165.68]  now to start addressing this situation i want you to notice something carefully in the text
+[1165.68 --> 1175.68]  starting in verse 3 habakkuk says destruction and violence are before me there is strife and conflict
+[1175.68 --> 1184.88]  abounds therefore the law is paralyzed and justice never prevails and notice two things here right
+[1185.28 --> 1194.32]  habakkuk is making an assertion in these words right first because he sees violence and destruction and
+[1194.32 --> 1202.48]  strife and conflict that's why the law is paralyzed or numb and justice doesn't prevail right because of all
+[1202.48 --> 1210.40]  that he can see his conclusion is that god is absent or his goodness challenged but think carefully
+[1210.40 --> 1217.60]  with me right that's all he can see and in a sense it's all he sees
+[1217.60 --> 1229.36]  but we know that habakkuk doesn't see all right and it's really then from his limited perspective
+[1229.36 --> 1234.80]  that he ends up making these universal and absolute statements about the nature of god
+[1235.92 --> 1241.20]  right the person who raises the problem of evil as an argument against the existence of god and this
+[1241.20 --> 1246.40]  was me a number of years ago the person who raises the problem of evil as an argument against the existence
+[1246.40 --> 1252.72]  of god presumes that we have the right viewpoint from which to make those sorts of absolute kinds of
+[1252.72 --> 1263.04]  statements this is habakkuk's problem this was my problem this is our problem and what's more when you
+[1263.04 --> 1272.96]  say that you are presupposing that something true will be knowable experientially and empirically that it
+[1272.96 --> 1279.44]  will be knowable to all but that's just obviously not true right just because we doesn't we can't
+[1279.44 --> 1286.96]  understand it doesn't mean god does not have good intentions for allowing such things to happen or even
+[1286.96 --> 1296.96]  using them like he uses the babylonians now of course we can't always prove we can't always even know
+[1296.96 --> 1304.24]  the reasons that god has or his ways right and i'm not trying to prove that all i want to say is that
+[1304.24 --> 1312.32]  he has them and the question really that remains for me is what takes more faith right does it take
+[1312.32 --> 1318.48]  more faith to believe that god has a purpose for all the events to that occur or does it take more faith
+[1318.48 --> 1323.36]  to believe that there is no purpose there is no god there is no director of history and all of it
+[1323.36 --> 1327.76]  stumbles blindly forward or to me the answer is obvious
+[1330.64 --> 1341.68]  in actual fact for any of our suffering to make any sense god has to be sovereignly in control of all of
+[1341.68 --> 1349.92]  history right if he isn't none of my suffering makes sense or has any purpose or greater good or greater
+[1349.92 --> 1357.60]  glory in the purposes of god and i can never know which may or which may not be for his glory and his
+[1357.60 --> 1365.36]  purpose but if he is sovereignly in control of everything then everything is for his purpose
+[1365.36 --> 1376.32]  and if god isn't in control that's actually what's truly heartbreaking and the second thing then to
+[1376.32 --> 1387.60]  see from habakkuk comes when he says justice never prevails never now that's a really strong word right
+[1387.60 --> 1395.12]  when we struggle or face suffering or challenging situations right it is individual human nature to
+[1395.36 --> 1402.40]  um exaggerate or to hyperbolize right my kids even do this or mr eric even does this right and says
+[1402.40 --> 1411.28]  this is the worst it's just a mouse in your car the worst but that's what we do right we make things out
+[1411.28 --> 1418.32]  to be big and huge and universal and look i'm not trying to be unsympathetic right and i don't want to
+[1419.20 --> 1424.32]  diminish or minimize the hardships and struggles that we face
+[1425.52 --> 1434.80]  and i'll concede that that even in that moment that may be the worst for you that may be the hardest
+[1434.80 --> 1444.64]  thing you have ever faced but is it the absolute right does justice never prevail when justice isn't
+[1444.64 --> 1456.00]  prevailing but you catch the difference that we're making now look and here's what it comes down to
+[1458.00 --> 1464.80]  will we have enough humility to let god be god
+[1464.80 --> 1472.96]  now let me be really clear again right we may never know the reasons that god does something or
+[1472.96 --> 1480.00]  doesn't do other things or permit some things to happen all we can do in faith is trust and believe
+[1480.00 --> 1489.36]  that god is god and that he has his glorious reasons i love the words of the christian philosopher
+[1489.36 --> 1498.08]  named peter kreeft he says this he says the christian god has come to earth to deliberately put himself
+[1498.64 --> 1506.00]  on the hook of human suffering let me be clear on the hook of human suffering not for human suffering
+[1506.00 --> 1513.28]  he's not taking responsibility for it he is living in it on the cross in jesus christ kreeft continues
+[1513.28 --> 1521.52]  god experienced the greatest depths of pain therefore though christianity does not provide all the
+[1521.52 --> 1529.12]  reasons for each experience of pain it provides deep resources for actually facing suffering with hope
+[1529.12 --> 1538.72]  and courage rather than with bitterness and despair end quote because jesus came and lived the life of
+[1538.72 --> 1547.20]  perfect righteousness and died the death that is my penalty for sin i can face tomorrow because this
+[1547.20 --> 1555.84]  is my father's world and he has laid its foundations and controls every aspect of it because he has made all
+[1555.84 --> 1566.80]  that is fair i can live today though he slay me i will yet praise him
+[1569.76 --> 1576.32]  here's where we will end this morning and in a few weeks pastor kevin is going to preach on this text
+[1576.32 --> 1580.88]  explicitly and so i'm not going to steal his thunder now but if your bibles are open flip over to chapter
+[1580.88 --> 1591.20]  three and look at verse 17 chapter 3 verse 17 habakkuk writes though the fig tree does not bud and there
+[1591.20 --> 1598.56]  are no grapes on the vines though the olive crop fails and the fields produce no food though there are
+[1598.56 --> 1605.12]  no sheep in the pen no cattle in the stalls in other words though nothing is the way it's supposed to be
+[1605.12 --> 1611.60]  though there isn't any prosperity and only hardship and suffering yet habakkuk says i will rejoice in the
+[1611.60 --> 1622.16]  lord i will be joyful in god my savior the sovereign lord is my strength he makes my feet like the feet of
+[1622.16 --> 1633.84]  a deer and he enables me to go to the heights what is the antidote to our experience of the problem
+[1633.84 --> 1640.32]  of evil what is the antidote to those times and places where our belief in god is challenged because
+[1640.32 --> 1654.08]  of the evil and injustice we see in the world worship worship right we may be wrecked we may be facing
+[1654.08 --> 1662.64]  trials of all kinds right we live in a time of confusion and chaos but god is calling us to worship
+[1663.84 --> 1684.80]  the glory of god worship is crying out how long worship is lament worship is seething prayers calling for god's justice
+[1684.80 --> 1691.20]  worship is tears at the brokenness we are in the midst of
+[1691.20 --> 1704.72]  but instead of unbelief in response to evil imagine what your life imagine what our life together imagine
+[1704.72 --> 1712.96]  what our world would look like if instead of unbelief in response to evil instead of apathy instead of fear
+[1712.96 --> 1724.80]  fear instead what if we worshiped i promise you when doubts and hardships come and they will
+[1726.88 --> 1734.56]  and if when they do you worship more and not less truly worshiped right in spirit and in truth in song
+[1734.56 --> 1744.88]  and in word and in sacrament if you worship when you are wrecked you will find rest for your souls because you
+[1744.88 --> 1748.24]  will be found by jesus
+[1750.32 --> 1752.48]  that is the point
+[1754.48 --> 1763.20]  that is why we are called to worship in the midst of confusion and chaos that is the legacy of habakkuk for us
+[1763.76 --> 1766.00]  today i pray
+[1768.48 --> 1777.28]  that you know that story of faith and i pray that when your faith is broken and you can't do it that
+[1777.28 --> 1779.60]  there are people in your life who will lift you up
+[1782.00 --> 1782.80]  and if there aren't
+[1784.80 --> 1790.48]  would you let me be that person if there aren't would you let someone from church one of our elders or a
+[1790.48 --> 1794.88]  small group member or a community group member someone whom you know from this place would you let us
+[1794.88 --> 1800.08]  be that for you because that is the strength of christian community
+[1800.08 --> 1805.36]  alone we might stay
+[1805.36 --> 1806.40]  alone we might stay wrecked
+[1806.40 --> 1808.00]  but together
+[1808.00 --> 1809.92]  we can worship
+[1810.96 --> 1811.84]  let's pray together
+[1811.84 --> 1818.72]  lord our god we come to you
+[1818.72 --> 1825.84]  in the midst of the chaos of our lives from the midst of the confusion we may be facing now we come to you
+[1825.84 --> 1827.84]  to worship to sing your praises
+[1829.04 --> 1836.24]  we rest god on your sovereign rule on your promise to to guide history towards your purpose and
+[1836.24 --> 1837.68]  the glory of your name
+[1837.68 --> 1847.52]  no matter what we face though you may slay us we yet praise you
+[1847.52 --> 1861.52]  in our heart of hearts today may we sing your praise in jesus name amen
+[1861.52 --> 1865.52]  you

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+• Introduction to wrapping up a sermon series on Habakkuk
+• Discussion of Pastor Chris giving the speaker only three verses to preach on
+• Pronunciation of the prophet's name (Habakkuk)
+• Reading from Habakkuk 3:16-19 and explanation of its significance
+• The prophet's transformation from despair to rejoicing in God despite dire circumstances
+• The message of trusting God, not necessarily for salvation from suffering, but from sin and death forever
+• The strength and power of faith comes from the object of faith, not the holder of it
+• Faith is a gift that can be placed in various objects, but ultimately should be in God
+• God's faithfulness is what sets Him apart from other objects of faith
+• Hope is an important concept because it influences how one feels about their present situation based on their perspective of their future
+• A hopeless world: people are feeling at a loss for hope due to increasing anxiety, depression, and mental health issues
+• The current generation (Gen Z) is experiencing unprecedented levels of anxiety and feelings of hopelessness about their futures
+• Our culture is losing hope in various areas: government, environment, economics
+• Declining confidence in the future due to loss of hope in current institutions and systems
+• Pop culture reflecting and feeding hopelessness through dystopian stories and antiheroes
+• Putting hope in wrong things vs. putting hope in God's promises and redemption story
+• Tim Keller's quote on hope requiring faith in something transcending this world
+• Death as a test of hope, with the need for hope in something beyond this life becoming more apparent
+• The Christian hope in Jesus Christ as Redeemer and Savior, offering restoration, justice, and eternal life
+• Confidence in death approaching based on secure hope in redemption through Jesus
+• Death as a step towards freedom
+• D.L. Moody's quote about death and being more alive
+• The story of Stephen in Acts, seeing heaven opened
+• Hope in Christ after death, based on faith and relationship with Him
+• Hope is a gift, not earned or bought, but available to everyone
+• The security of hope in Christ, demonstrated through rejoicing in adversity

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+[0.00 --> 8.48]  Well, it is my pleasure this morning to bring you God's Word. And today we are going to be
+[8.48 --> 13.44]  wrapping up sort of our current sermon series that we've been working on for the past month
+[13.44 --> 19.08]  on Habakkuk. Now, I was pumped when Pastor Chris asked if I would join him in this sermon series,
+[19.12 --> 24.06]  and I was even flattered that he asked that I would do the fourth and final installment
+[24.06 --> 30.52]  of this series. And then I realized that while he preached the last three weeks on three chapters
+[30.52 --> 37.38]  comprising 57 verses of this book of the Bible, all he left me with was three measly verses at the end.
+[38.10 --> 41.66]  And I guess he already knows that I'm long-winded and he didn't want to give me too much to go off
+[41.66 --> 47.70]  of. I'm kidding, of course. The real reason there's so few verses today is simply this. This is how the
+[47.70 --> 53.66]  text breaks down in this book. And the three verses today not only sort of conclude the book as a whole
+[53.66 --> 59.50]  and bring some finality to it, it also summarizes the past three weeks quite well, which I guess
+[59.50 --> 64.36]  that makes sense. That's how conclusions work. Before we start, though, this is important. It's
+[64.36 --> 69.60]  important that you all know that unlike Pastor Chris, I have no real convictions on how to pronounce
+[69.60 --> 76.82]  this prophet's name. I have been saying all my life Habakkuk, and so now to pronounce it Habakkuk
+[76.82 --> 82.96]  is a little bit hard for me. In fact, I may be going back and forth this entire sermon, and if I do that,
+[82.96 --> 86.04]  feel free to write me lots of emails and let me know that I did just that.
+[86.86 --> 91.18]  Actually, what I'll probably do is just use words like him or that prophet or that guy,
+[91.30 --> 95.18]  because generally that's what people do when they don't remember someone's name, right? Like if
+[95.18 --> 98.48]  someone comes up to you and is like, hey, Kevin, like you respond and you don't know who they are,
+[98.88 --> 105.04]  you respond with like, hey, buckaroo. So I might just default to that or do something similar today.
+[105.96 --> 111.38]  Anyways, our text today comes from Buckaroo 3 verse, no, I'm kidding. I'm not actually going to do this.
+[111.38 --> 117.88]  We're going to read from Habakkuk 3 verses 17 to 19 this morning, and because it's so short,
+[118.70 --> 124.46]  I want to start a verse early and read verse 16 as well. I figured we could all use a bonus verse
+[124.46 --> 130.86]  in our lives during this season. So verses 16, it actually really kind of sets the stage, so to speak,
+[130.90 --> 136.04]  for our text. So please open up your Bibles, pull out your notebooks, your pens, pull out your chai tea
+[136.04 --> 142.50]  lattes, your puppets, your glasses, your stress balls, whatever you need right now to really dig
+[142.50 --> 150.86]  into this text, grab it and join me as we read Habakkuk 3 verses 16 to 19. And there we read this,
+[150.90 --> 159.38]  it says, I heard and my heart pounded, my lips quivered at the sound, decay crept into my bones
+[159.38 --> 166.60]  and my legs trembled. Yet I will wait patiently for the day of calamity to come on the nation
+[166.60 --> 174.60]  invading us. Though the fig tree does not bud and there are no grapes on the vines, though the olive
+[174.60 --> 181.34]  crops fail and the fields produce no food, though there are no sheep in the pen and no cattle in the
+[181.34 --> 192.30]  stalls, yet I will rejoice in the Lord. I will be joyful in God, my Savior. The sovereign Lord is my
+[192.30 --> 200.02]  strength. He makes my feet like the feet of a deer. He enables me to tread on the heights.
+[201.30 --> 209.90]  The word of the Lord. Now, like I said, this passage, it nicely sums up what the entire book of Habakkuk is
+[209.90 --> 215.52]  about. Within these few lines of this book, we hear about the prophet, how he is in both a state of
+[215.52 --> 223.94]  despair and a state of triumph. With the fear of the nation of Babylon's invasion growing and growing
+[223.94 --> 229.28]  and the worry that his people were going to suffer because of it, Habakkuk, he's in dire straits.
+[230.42 --> 239.16]  We read that his body trembled, his heart pounded, his lips quivered, the attack was coming, and he knew,
+[239.16 --> 246.26]  he knew there would be loss. He knew there would be pain. He knew there would be suffering. He knew
+[246.26 --> 257.06]  there would be death. However, in the midst of this despair, we read today that he rejoiced.
+[259.38 --> 264.38]  When he started this book, Habakkuk was about to fall apart. Destruction, violence, wickedness,
+[264.38 --> 271.84]  injustice. It was all around him. He cried out to God, and his cries were heard. God answered his
+[271.84 --> 278.92]  complaints, and he provided Habakkuk the confidence, and more importantly, he provided Habakkuk the lens,
+[279.56 --> 287.66]  the perspective that he needed to lift him out of his despair. Though he was physically and emotionally
+[287.66 --> 295.16]  weak, Habakkuk was spiritually strong, and our text is the final phase of his transformation.
+[297.68 --> 304.36]  Habakkuk realized that his peace, his peace, did not depend on his circumstance.
+[306.20 --> 312.26]  And in verse 17 of our text today, he lists and outlines all of the worst pending dooms he could
+[312.26 --> 318.78]  think of in his circumstance. The failure of crops, no more figs for cakes, no more grapes for wine,
+[318.90 --> 325.24]  no more oil and grain for bread, the loss of sheep and cattle, no more meat to eat, no more clothes
+[325.24 --> 331.32]  to wear, no more jobs to do, no more purpose to live for.
+[331.32 --> 342.26]  Habakkuk. But even in the midst of annihilation and ruin, of famine and even death, Habakkuk was prepared
+[342.26 --> 350.20]  to trust God. Not necessarily trust that God was going to save them from this torment, no,
+[350.58 --> 359.30]  but that God was going to save them from the laws of sin and death and war and suffering forever.
+[359.30 --> 367.34]  In fact, it went beyond trust. Not only did he believe in God's redemption plan, but he rejoiced.
+[368.08 --> 376.58]  He was joyful in the midst of his concern. He found strength, not in himself, not in his understanding,
+[377.08 --> 383.80]  not in his ability to cope with his circumstance. No, he found strength in the sovereign Lord.
+[383.80 --> 390.58]  He found his footing in the God who keeps his covenant promises forever.
+[392.52 --> 399.00]  Habakkuk came to realize that his faith could ultimately and even finally be left in the God
+[399.00 --> 406.40]  who keeps his covenant promises forever. Yet, I will rejoice in the Lord. I will be joyful in the Lord,
+[406.40 --> 417.74]  my Savior, he says. He could rejoice because he began to understand that his faith is a gift.
+[419.32 --> 424.98]  Now, we talk about spiritual gifts, spiritual gifts of things like encouragement or hospitality or wisdom,
+[425.08 --> 433.32]  there's lots. Faith is also a gift. Faith is something we are all given to varying degrees, sure,
+[433.32 --> 451.34]  but we are all given this gift. And the strength and power of that gift of faith is in the object of faith,
+[451.44 --> 456.66]  not in the holder of it. So, for example, if I were to put my faith in the government, let's just say,
+[456.66 --> 462.80]  the government is the object of my faith. It has the strength, it has the power, not me. I have very
+[462.80 --> 468.92]  little control over what the government does. So, the object of my faith has the strength and the
+[468.92 --> 473.78]  power, not the holder of it. Or perhaps we put our faith in the economy. Again, we have very little
+[473.78 --> 479.80]  control over what the economy does. So, it holds the power of our faith, not me, the holder of it.
+[479.80 --> 492.16]  That means that when we put our faith in God, the strength and power of that faith is God, not us.
+[493.54 --> 497.78]  And of course, the big difference between God and the government or the economy or anything else
+[497.78 --> 506.78]  is that God is faithful to us. That's why Pastor Chris has said several times over the past three
+[506.78 --> 513.90]  weeks that when we become weak, when our confidence is shaken, God remains faithful.
+[515.52 --> 522.72]  The power and the strength of faith is in the object of faith, our God.
+[525.28 --> 529.34]  I'm going to let that marinate for just a little bit. So, sit on that, stew on that a little bit,
+[529.34 --> 538.82]  and we'll get back to it. So, Habakkuk, he finds his hope in God's faithfulness. Hope.
+[539.94 --> 545.66]  Hope is such an interesting thing, isn't it? It's incredibly important. It's important because
+[545.66 --> 552.26]  what we believe about our future completely controls how we feel about our present.
+[552.26 --> 559.52]  Let me say that again. What we believe about our future completely controls about how we feel about
+[559.52 --> 566.22]  our present. I read a great example of this that highlights this truth. In his book, Making Sense of
+[566.22 --> 573.56]  God, Timothy Keller, he uses the following analogy to show just how important our perspective and
+[573.56 --> 581.24]  understanding of the future is to our perception of reality. So, picture this. Follow along with me
+[581.24 --> 586.34]  here. Pretend there are two women, both of which are the same age, they're the same socioeconomic
+[586.34 --> 592.02]  class, they're the same race, same worldview, same everything. And you take these two women and you
+[592.02 --> 599.48]  give them a job. They get the same job. It is a super boring job, an assembly line job. Take part A,
+[599.80 --> 608.02]  put it on part B, do not rinse, do not lather, only repeat over and over and over again. They're in the
+[608.02 --> 613.44]  same room, same lighting, same temperature, same hours, same breaks, same job, same everything.
+[614.20 --> 622.54]  The only difference is that you tell woman A that after a year you will pay her $30,000 for doing that
+[622.54 --> 631.72]  job. And you tell woman B that you will pay her $30 million to do that job. Well, what happens?
+[631.72 --> 637.50]  After a week or two, woman A starts to wonder if it's all worth it. She begins to grumble and complain
+[637.50 --> 643.22]  and eventually she quits. She bows out. Woman B, on the other hand, shows up every day, whistling while
+[643.22 --> 649.90]  she works, faithfully doing her job. She sticks it out. Her future hope of that $30 million makes the
+[649.90 --> 659.66]  day seem not so bad. How each woman perceived her future completely controlled their present situation.
+[659.66 --> 663.36]  Hope matters.
+[665.44 --> 672.08]  And yet we find ourselves in an increasingly hopeless world, don't we? People are feeling
+[672.08 --> 680.26]  at a loss for hope. This past Thursday was Let's Talk Day. It's a day in the year where we all are
+[680.26 --> 684.98]  encouraged to talk about and post on social media about mental health and raise awareness for
+[684.98 --> 690.28]  invisible illness. And it's a wonderful day. It's a fantastic initiative because mental health
+[690.28 --> 697.44]  needs our discussion. It needs our attention. Anxiety is becoming more and more prevalent.
+[698.04 --> 707.92]  Depression too. Suicide numbers are rising. Generation Z, the youngest generation right now, is the most
+[707.92 --> 715.90]  anxious generation in decades. Maybe ever. Eric Uslander, he's a PhD professor in Maryland,
+[716.04 --> 722.22]  he highlights this and he says this. He says, young people today are the first generation in history
+[722.22 --> 727.94]  to be certain they are and will be worse off than their parents.
+[730.20 --> 735.90]  According to studies done by the American Psychological Association, your average child today
+[735.90 --> 743.92]  reports more anxiety than a child psychiatric patient in the 1950s. That's remarkable. That is
+[743.92 --> 749.46]  heartbreaking. People are feeling hopeless, especially young people. They have little hope
+[749.46 --> 755.08]  for their futures and it is causing stress and anxiety and depression to degrees that we have not seen
+[755.08 --> 765.82]  before. Hope matters. We're becoming a people with increasingly less hope. Our culture is losing
+[765.82 --> 769.92]  hope in everything. We're losing hope in the government, whether you're a liberal, conservative,
+[770.40 --> 775.54]  democrat, republican, wherever you land on the spectrum, you have experienced hopelessness in our
+[775.54 --> 780.82]  nation's leaders recently. We're losing hope in the environment. Climate change is happening. Animals are
+[780.82 --> 786.14]  going extinct. Pollution levels are on the rise. Some of you feel like this is a hopeless situation and others
+[786.14 --> 792.64]  of you that don't feel this way, you feel hopeless in articulating your point of view. We're losing hope in our
+[792.64 --> 799.08]  economics. First-time home buyers, especially in this area, they're feeling crippled by the market and
+[799.08 --> 805.32]  people are running more and more frustrated with the economy in general. In fact, just this week,
+[805.60 --> 812.52]  the GameStop stock chaos that happened is just a perfect example of the attitude and the hopelessness
+[812.52 --> 818.16]  that people have surrounding the economy. That GameStop stock story, A, is just very hard to say.
+[818.16 --> 823.54]  B, Wall State really underestimated a generation raised on highly coordinated, synchronized World
+[823.54 --> 832.56]  of Warcraft raids. That's what I think happened. Back to the point. Polls everywhere are showing a
+[832.56 --> 841.52]  declining confidence in our future. And it is all due to a loss of hope in the things that we evidently put
+[841.52 --> 850.92]  our hope in. Hope matters. And it goes beyond simply losing our hope. We're beginning to become
+[850.92 --> 858.24]  enthralled, enthralled by hopelessness. Now hear me out here. The most popular books we read, the most
+[858.24 --> 864.00]  popular movies we watch, are not ones right now filled with joy and hope anymore. They are stories
+[864.00 --> 870.50]  where hopelessness reigns. Movies that take place in dystopian futures intrigue us because we relate to the
+[870.50 --> 875.38]  hopelessness of the characters and that the characters face in those circumstances. Book series
+[875.38 --> 882.44]  like The Hunger Games or Divergent, they do the same. We love stories with antiheroes. Marvel superhero
+[882.44 --> 887.36]  movies, sure, they broke bank this last decade, but the most highest grossing Marvel movie of all of
+[887.36 --> 893.36]  them was Deadpool, which featured a vengeful and ruthless antihero. Breaking Bad, probably the most
+[893.36 --> 899.12]  popular television show of the past decade. Also, its lead was an extremely immoral antihero.
+[899.12 --> 905.36]  This week I saw three trailers for three major movies coming out in 2021. Those three movies,
+[905.68 --> 912.04]  Dune, a dystopian future where humanity fights to survive, Godzilla vs. Kong, a movie that is
+[912.04 --> 916.94]  humanity's at the mercy of two giants fighting each other, and Greenland, an apocalyptic movie about
+[916.94 --> 924.98]  the end of the world due to comet fragments crashing towards the earth. So much hopelessness,
+[924.98 --> 938.14]  and we are drawn to it. So why does hopelessness reign so prevalently these days? Perhaps it's because
+[938.14 --> 945.90]  we keep putting our hope in the wrong things. That's precisely what Habakkuk learned throughout
+[945.90 --> 950.96]  this whole book. He was hoping for a solution to the circumstance that he found himself in. He was
+[950.96 --> 959.34]  hoping for a solution to the impending captivity that he was about to face. But what he got was not a
+[959.34 --> 966.94]  solution to that problem, but a reminder of God's promises, God's promises that are bigger than our
+[966.94 --> 974.44]  circumstances. What he got was a promise that God's redemption story is grander and more beautiful than
+[974.44 --> 984.26]  whatever story we want to plug ourselves into. What he got was a reminder that the story that God calls
+[984.26 --> 994.36]  us to be in is his story, the story of redemption. And that is a story that is just full of hope.
+[994.36 --> 1003.76]  I love this quote from Tim Keller again. He says this. He says, hope that enables us to face the worst in
+[1003.76 --> 1008.84]  this world depends on faith in something that transcends this world.
+[1012.12 --> 1017.22]  If we keep putting our hope in a different government or a new approach to climate change or
+[1017.22 --> 1023.32]  the stock market suddenly rising or falling or a new boyfriend or a new girlfriend or a new job
+[1023.32 --> 1033.72]  or a new identity crafted from this world, our hope is finite. It is small. It transcends nothing.
+[1036.52 --> 1045.62]  Hope that enables us to face the worst in this world depends on faith in something that transcends the world.
+[1045.62 --> 1063.30]  Hope that helps us to face the worst in this world. Habakkuk figured that out. His hope was no longer in crops or food or cattle or employment or his nation or himself or even this life. He was reminded that his hope must be in the Lord.
+[1063.30 --> 1075.62]  Now there is no event in our lives that puts hope to the test more than when we brush up against death.
+[1076.98 --> 1086.40]  When the reality of the shadow of death falls upon us or upon someone that we love, hope becomes so much more than an idea.
+[1087.40 --> 1088.88]  It becomes a reality.
+[1088.88 --> 1099.46]  The need for hope in something that transcends this life moves to the forefront of our minds when death is present.
+[1100.40 --> 1106.92]  When people are on their deathbed, for example, they welcome conversations with pastors, ministers, priests, elders,
+[1107.16 --> 1110.12]  even if they've never stepped in a church before in their life.
+[1110.12 --> 1140.10]  Death is not natural.
+[1140.10 --> 1143.66]  The death that he died was the death we all deserved.
+[1144.94 --> 1154.24]  But by raising to life on the third day, he defeated death once and for all until he comes again at the end of time to redeem all the cosmos for his glory.
+[1156.70 --> 1161.04]  Habakkuk's hope was in that future for him.
+[1161.04 --> 1168.16]  That future promise of the Messiah who would restore the world and bring justice to the injustice.
+[1168.88 --> 1171.10]  Bring peace to the warfare.
+[1171.62 --> 1174.62]  Bring life into a world full of death.
+[1176.62 --> 1181.62]  Brothers and sisters, we now live on this side of the empty tomb.
+[1181.72 --> 1183.02]  That was a future for Habakkuk.
+[1183.28 --> 1185.80]  It is a reality, a past event for us.
+[1185.80 --> 1194.46]  We know our risen Lord has accomplished justice and peace and eternal life,
+[1194.64 --> 1203.54]  and we hope in certainty for the fulfillment of these promises when our already victorious Savior
+[1203.54 --> 1209.64]  comes down from his heavenly seat at the right hand of God to restore all of creation to its final glory.
+[1210.18 --> 1215.22]  Then all who believed in him can rejoice in body and in soul forever.
+[1215.74 --> 1218.76]  That is our hope.
+[1218.76 --> 1228.82]  Believers in Christ, we are not simply hoping for some comfort for the life that we might have lost.
+[1229.30 --> 1233.90]  We can look towards this full restoration of the life that we wanted,
+[1234.08 --> 1236.88]  but could never have due to the sin and brokenness of this world.
+[1237.12 --> 1239.36]  Our hope is in so much more.
+[1239.36 --> 1251.14]  Other religions, they offer an afterlife that is primarily conditioned on people living morally and good lives.
+[1252.42 --> 1256.66]  But the salvation Christianity offers is not for good people,
+[1257.50 --> 1261.94]  but rather for people who understand and acknowledge that they are, and never will be,
+[1262.56 --> 1267.26]  good enough themselves and are desperately in need of a Savior.
+[1267.26 --> 1276.14]  Because of this, we don't have to approach death uncertain of whether we will be found worthy of eternal life or not,
+[1277.20 --> 1284.92]  but we can approach death confidently, knowing our Redeemer lives and our hope is secure.
+[1286.16 --> 1287.50]  We've seen this throughout history.
+[1288.20 --> 1291.38]  Dietrich Bonhoeffer was about to be executed for plotting against Hitler,
+[1291.38 --> 1296.00]  and he wrote that death is the supreme festival on the road to freedom.
+[1296.00 --> 1299.08]  At the end of his life, D.L. Moody wrote that,
+[1299.20 --> 1301.08]  Someday you will read that I am dead, he said.
+[1301.42 --> 1302.34]  Don't believe a word.
+[1303.02 --> 1305.80]  At that moment, I will be more alive than I am now.
+[1307.72 --> 1310.34]  The first martyr, Stephen, back in Acts chapter 7,
+[1310.40 --> 1312.36]  he's about to get stoned for witnessing the gospel,
+[1312.46 --> 1313.94]  and he looked up to the heavens and he said,
+[1313.94 --> 1320.06]  Behold, I see the heavens opened and the Son of Man standing at the right hand of God.
+[1320.06 --> 1324.02]  Our church has seen it too.
+[1324.68 --> 1327.16]  Two of our members passed away in December,
+[1327.70 --> 1337.90]  and yet both Dave and Brum were confident that their sure hope was in Christ.
+[1339.36 --> 1342.36]  That this life was simply the beginning.
+[1342.98 --> 1343.92]  They were sure of it.
+[1344.56 --> 1346.04]  We can be sure of it too.
+[1346.04 --> 1351.22]  We recognize that we are part of a more beautiful story,
+[1351.38 --> 1353.02]  a story that is already victorious,
+[1353.24 --> 1355.22]  and yet a story that is not concluded.
+[1356.26 --> 1358.74]  The conclusion comes with Christ's second coming,
+[1358.82 --> 1361.00]  where he will redeem all things once and for all.
+[1361.38 --> 1362.64]  That is our hope,
+[1362.96 --> 1365.92]  and it is an eternal hope.
+[1369.50 --> 1370.34]  Concluding with this,
+[1370.38 --> 1371.18]  as I mentioned earlier,
+[1371.24 --> 1372.22]  our hope is not earned.
+[1372.98 --> 1374.04]  Our hope is not bought.
+[1374.04 --> 1376.18]  Our hope is not even found,
+[1376.26 --> 1378.56]  because that presumes we need to search for it.
+[1379.82 --> 1380.04]  No.
+[1380.50 --> 1382.06]  Our hope is a gift.
+[1382.20 --> 1385.80]  It is a faith in our intimate relationship with Christ Jesus,
+[1386.10 --> 1387.22]  our Savior.
+[1387.98 --> 1390.00]  And this hope is available to everyone,
+[1390.60 --> 1392.10]  no matter their circumstance.
+[1394.56 --> 1400.44]  That is why Habakkuk could rejoice in the midst of his impending captivity.
+[1400.44 --> 1404.06]  That is why Christians can sing at funerals.
+[1404.26 --> 1407.80]  That is why we can be caught dancing in the dirge.
+[1408.32 --> 1412.62]  That is why we can be wrecked and worshiping.
+[1413.66 --> 1416.80]  Because our hope is secure in Christ.
+[1417.96 --> 1418.28]  Amen.
+[1418.50 --> 1418.94]  Let me pray.
+[1420.48 --> 1425.42]  Father God, we are so grateful for this eternal hope in you.
+[1425.42 --> 1430.72]  Lord, the gospel truths of Christ's life, death, and resurrection,
+[1431.36 --> 1434.26]  and the knowledge that we have that he will once come again,
+[1434.32 --> 1435.22]  he will soon come again.
+[1436.06 --> 1437.12]  That is our hope.
+[1437.70 --> 1442.00]  God, we ask for forgiveness when we put our hope in finite things.
+[1443.52 --> 1444.96]  May you convict us when we do.
+[1446.26 --> 1449.96]  Lord, will you draw us more in to your story,
+[1449.96 --> 1453.82]  your story of redemption for all of the cosmos.
+[1454.22 --> 1459.08]  And may we take this hope and apply it to our lives.
+[1459.88 --> 1462.58]  May we stop looking for hope in the wrong things,
+[1462.80 --> 1465.64]  and may we focus it solely on you.
+[1465.90 --> 1467.54]  We pray this in your name.
+[1468.08 --> 1468.36]  Amen.
+[1468.36 --> 1468.48]  Amen.

Easter Sunday Worship Service - April 4 2021_summary.txt

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+• Salvation through Christ's love and sacrifice
+• Overcoming shame and sin with God's forgiveness
+• Resurrection from spiritual death to new life in Christ
+• Freedom from past mistakes and failures
+• Becoming a citizen of heaven with purpose and future
+• The power of Jesus' name to overcome darkness and bring glory
+• Declaration of power and breaking chains through Jesus
+• Call to worship and singling out Easter Sunday
+• Reflection on celebrating Easter despite difficult circumstances
+• Encouragement to sing and praise the risen Savior together as a community
+• Song of worship and praise to God, referencing His mercy and love
+• Worship service on Easter Sunday
+• Welcome and invitation to participate in worship
+• Call to worship based on Psalm 118
+• Celebration of Jesus' resurrection and eternal life
+• Music and hymns celebrating the risen Christ
+• Invitation for prayer and connection with church staff
+• Final hymn and closing prayer
+• The power of Jesus' resurrection
+• Hope in Jesus Christ
+• Celebrating Easter morning
+• Praying for forgiveness and new hope
+• The significance of the empty tomb
+• The sacrifice of Jesus on the cross
+• Redemption and reconciliation through Jesus' love
+• The curse of sin being broken
+• Praising God's glory and honor
+• The speaker introduces the topic of Easter Sunday and discusses its significance
+• A memory verse from John 3:16 is read and discussed with accompanying actions to help memorize it
+• The speaker compares Easter to a roller coaster, explaining how it evokes both sadness and joy
+• A story will be told in two parts, with a break after the sermon
+• Jesus is arrested by the authorities and handed over to Pilate
+• The crowd demands that Jesus be crucified, but Pilate is unsure of his guilt
+• Jesus is whipped and mocked by Pilate's soldiers
+• A crown of thorns is placed on Jesus' head, and he is nailed to a cross
+• Jesus remains on the cross for hours, despite being able to come down
+• The sun disappears and darkness falls, Jesus cries out in pain and dies
+• Later that afternoon, Jesus' friends take his body down from the cross and bury him in a tomb
+• Pilate sends soldiers to guard the entrance of the tomb
+• Jesus' death and resurrection
+• Easter Sunday worship service at a church
+• Offerings and tithes for Langley Emanuel, CRC Ministries, and Missions
+• Resonate Global Mission and its vision to spread the gospel
+• Upcoming special offering for World Renew Refugee Sponsorship and Resettlement
+• Church nominations process for council office bearers
+• Electronic nomination form available through email or website
+• Paper copies of the nomination form available at the church office
+• Vacancies on council, including admin elder, pastoral elder, and deacon positions
+• Prayer for the Wind family after Sam's brother passed away
+• Prayers for Pastor George Kulin, his wife Kim who recently passed away from cancer, and their families
+• Celebration of a new baby girl born to Daniel and Ismay Howling
+• Request for guidance in nomination process for leadership positions
+• Prayers for congregation members with chronic health issues
+• Prayers for those struggling with hurting relationships and seeking reconciliation
+• Support for COVID long haulers and young/old individuals still experiencing lasting symptoms
+• Prayers for leadership and volunteers navigating health authority orders during the pandemic
+• Praying for strength and hope in Jesus
+• Introducing a message on Luke 24 and the importance of understanding who Jesus is
+• The question "Who do you say that I am?" being asked to Peter and everyone
+• How answering this question affects life and actions
+• Jesus changing everything through his resurrection
+• Exploring three aspects of the resurrection: truth, witness, and mission
+• The difficulty of believing in extraordinary events and concepts
+• The story of Jesus' resurrection and its seeming absurdity to some
+• The importance of the Bible as a guide for understanding
+• Examples from the New Testament (Luke) illustrating the struggle to believe, including:
+	+ The women who first saw the empty tomb not being believed by others
+	+ The disciples on the road to Emmaus struggling to understand Jesus' identity
+	+ Jesus' later appearance to his disciples and their initial fear and confusion
+• The idea that Jesus' teachings can be hard to grasp due to their unconventional nature
+• Jesus teaches radical obedience to God as life
+• The story of the resurrection and its significance
+• The resurrection is the foundation of Christian faith and belief
+• Historical and scriptural evidence supporting the resurrection
+• Importance of knowing the certainty of things taught through Luke's gospel message
+• The training and skills of the gospel writer Luke in the Greek scholastic system
+• Characteristics of true stories vs myths, including precise details and eyewitness accounts
+• Comparison between the story of Little Red Riding Hood and the resurrection story in Luke 24
+• Significance of specific names and details provided by Luke in his account of the resurrection
+• The Gospel account is compared to historical sources and myths
+• C.S. Lewis quote mentioned: stories are not always easily identifiable as true or false based on their "flavor"
+• The Gaelic War, a Roman expansion into Gaul, is used as an example of how historians trust primary sources from the past despite few manuscript copies existing
+• Comparison made between the reliability of Caesar's account and the New Testament, with both having fewer manuscript copies than expected but differing in acceptance as true history
+• The Gospels should be widely accepted as accurate and true
+• The resurrection of Jesus has hallmarks of being a true story
+• Intellectual opposition is not the main reason people struggle to believe in Jesus' resurrection
+• The real problem is existential and spiritual, often rooted in disappointment or fear of change
+• Belief in Jesus' resurrection requires surrendering to grace and faith, which can be scary for some
+• Complacency in modern society
+• The fear of true life and knowing God
+• De-churched individuals, such as Mike, who have left the church due to negative experiences with Christians
+• The impact of Christianity on personal lives, including spiritual rebirth and renewal
+• The resurrection of Jesus Christ and its transformative power over sin and death
+• Jesus' resurrection is a new identity for believers as lavishly loved children of God
+• The Bible has been pointing to the resurrection from the beginning, including in Genesis and Psalm 16
+• The disciples struggled to understand the resurrection, but Jesus had been explaining it all along
+• The resurrection is a fulfillment of what was written about Jesus in the law, prophets, and Psalms
+• The disciples' inability to believe and recognize Jesus at first
+• Jesus is recognized by the disciples through a meal, specifically when he breaks bread
+• The significance of recognizing Jesus in communion (bread and wine)
+• The resurrection of Jesus and its connection to salvation
+• Jesus' presence in the church through the Holy Spirit
+• Being a witness to the resurrection
+• Living a transformed life as a result of Jesus' teachings
+• The importance of forgiveness, care for others, and seeking out those in need
+• Being a new creation with a mission to spread God's message
+• Resurrection life as a living reality, fueled by faith and worship
+• Jesus says to stay in the city and be clothed with power
+• The Holy Spirit empowers us for a world mired in death and darkness
+• We go not alone but with Jesus in spirit, together in community
+• Resurrection life is fueled by the witness of the word and sacrament
+• We run with perseverance in the journey of life and faith as a team
+• Jesus is the victory of God and the resurrection
+• Jesus has risen and changed everything
+• Everything is transformed by Jesus' life and resurrection
+• We should be sent out to see Jesus and share in his resurrection
+• The Holy Spirit's power and the resurrection
+• Jesus as the light and conqueror of darkness and death
+• Praise for the King who is risen from the dead
+• Questions to hell, death, and the world about their victories and stings
+• The story of Jesus' tomb being opened by an angel on Sunday morning
+• The women visited Jesus' tomb and found it open with the stone rolled away
+• An angel appeared and told them Jesus was not in the tomb because he had risen from the dead
+• Mary Magdalene and the other Mary saw Jesus alive and ran to him
+• Jesus told them to tell his disciples that he is alive
+• A hymn was sung about the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus
+• Jesus Christ's redemption through death and resurrection
+• The hope of eternal life and the victory over death
+• Singing praise and worship in the midst of challenges and enemies
+• Using music as a powerful tool for spiritual warfare
+• Emphasizing faith and trust in God's presence and power
+• Death is defeated
+• The King is alive
+• Singing in the midst of a storm
+• Hope arises from darkness
+• Praising the King with loud and joyful noise
+• Raising a shout of "hallelujah" to express praise and celebration

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+• Seeking to be more like Jesus
+• Wanting to put God first in life
+• Recognizing God's love and acceptance
+• Feeling content and at peace despite circumstances
+• Understanding that one is enough and loved as they are
+• Embracing God's presence and guidance through all situations
+• The person speaking appears to be having a spiritual experience, repeatedly declaring "That is enough" and "You are enough"
+• Baptisms of young covenant family members will take place during the service
+• Announcements are made about:
+	+ A survey for church library use
+	+ Prayer requests for CLASSIS (a regional gathering of CRC churches) on Tuesday
+	+ Safe Church team seeking volunteers with first aid or healthcare experience
+• Introduction of Heather and invitation to meet her
+• Update on cadets ministry with 17 boys participating and GEMS ministry starting soon
+• Clarification on GEMS meetings: leaders meeting this week, counselors meeting this week, and GEMS for girls in two weeks
+• Need for additional counselors for GEMS
+• Announcement of Catechism for Youth program starting tonight for grades 9-12
+• Worship service begins
+• Worship and praise
+• Trust in God
+• Reminders to rely on faithfulness and mercy
+• Freedom from fear and slavery
+• Identity as a child of God
+• Redemption through love and rescue
+• Chosen by God since birth
+• Ministry budget for refugee chaplain Dina Nikolai
+• The speaker discusses the sacrament of baptism and its significance
+• The ceremony is not about the water having magical properties but rather it's a miraculous mystery of God's grace
+• The children being baptized are considered covenant children and should receive the covenant
+• Baptism seals their adoption as God's children, writes his name on their foreheads, and gives them a new covenant identity in Jesus Christ
+• The speaker invites parents to come forward for baptism and asks them a series of questions before proceeding with the ceremony.
+• Baptism ceremony for multiple children
+• Parents are asked if they believe their children are members of God's covenant and promise to instruct them in the Christian faith
+• Explanation of baptism as a symbol of washing away sins and Jesus' name being written on the forehead
+• Children are baptized one by one, with parents invited to bring them forward
+• Congregation is asked to respond with "we do" to support the families and their children's upbringing
+• Blessing of God given to individuals and family
+• Elder Eric presents a gift on behalf of the church
+• Note about baptismal certificates being delayed due to administrative vacation
+• Multiple instances of repeated prayer and blessings
+• Children's blessings for kids aged 3-4
+• Baptisms at the church
+• Reminders and discussion about baptism significance
+• Children's worship time stories: Noah's Ark, the fall, creation, and the Tower of Babel
+• Call for volunteers for care packages for young adults studying abroad
+• Appreciation for congregation members' volunteer work
+• COVID-related deaths and passings mentioned (Mrs. Terpstra, Tim Bonkis' grandmother, Peter Spahn's family)
+• Kevin's brother-in-law Patrick has successful surgery
+• Many people experiencing long-term effects of COVID (respiratory issues)
+• Upcoming classes and participation from church leaders
+• Concern for isolated individuals, shut-ins, lonely and depressed people during the pandemic
+• Postponed surgeries and healthcare treatments affecting many people
+• Prayer time for those struggling with health, loneliness, or mental health challenges
+• The speaker's family did not have pets when they were growing up, but their wife loves animals and had them in her childhood home.
+• The couple has two dogs and a cat, which the speaker also enjoys despite initially not being interested in pets.
+• The speaker's love for his pets is an example of how people often take on interests and hobbies from their loved ones.
+• The passage from 1 Peter 2:4-10 emphasizes the idea that God chooses people to be part of His spiritual house, offering sacrifices acceptable to Him through Jesus Christ.
+• Layered analogies in Peter's text, including Jesus as both cornerstone and builder
+• Temple imagery, with Jesus as the living stone and architect of God's people
+• Church is composed of "living stones" (God's people) who offer spiritual sacrifices
+• Jesus' sacrifice has forgiven sins, replacing animal sacrifices with spiritual offerings
+• Examples of spiritual sacrifices include resisting evil, doing good, and enduring pain
+• Union between Christ and the church is essential; without it, Christians are useless or incomplete
+• Definition of decorpulated Christianity and decapitated Jesus
+• Importance of community in the church, using "we" language
+• The church as a collective body built together by Christ
+• Conflict resolution through togetherness and communal bond
+• Identity as God's chosen people, royal priesthood, holy nation
+• Baptism as a symbol of being part of God's promise
+• Receiving one's identity from God rather than achieving it themselves
+• Various biblical references to our identity in Christ
+• The importance of identity in modern Western culture
+• Tim Keller's views on the role of culture in shaping identity
+• Traditional communal identities vs. individualistic self-discovery
+• The "heroic narrative" of self-declaration and its impact on society
+• The problems with finding one's identity within oneself, including instability and impermanence
+• The tension between God's calling and individualistic identity formation
+• Changing nature of feelings and convictions
+• Fickleness of forming identity based on personal passions and intuitions
+• Exclusive nature of achieving one's own identity through accomplishments
+• Example of Christ as a servant who humbled himself and received his identity from God
+• Importance of receiving one's identity from God rather than trying to achieve it
+• Call to prayer, reading the word, fasting, and gathering as a community to remember one's identity in Christ
+• Purpose of being the church is to declare the gospel
+• The difference between "sharing" and "declaring" the gospel
+• The problem with waiting for others to be receptive to the message of Jesus
+• The importance of declaring God's praises without regard to audience receptivity
+• A challenge from Pastor Chris to have conversations about God's love with specific individuals in their lives
+• The importance of encouraging and lifting each other up with stories
+• Declaring God's name to those on one's heart
+• Being the church chosen by God to declare the gospel together
+• The mission statement: "we've gathered, hopefully we've grown, but now we must go"
+• Prayer for courage, encouragement, and conviction to share the gospel
+• Asking for the Holy Spirit to guide hearts and words
+• Praying for transformation of people through hearing the gospel
+• God's sovereignty and lordship
+• Christ as the cornerstone and source of strength
+• The importance of living a life surrendered to God
+• The role of God's people in declaring His praises
+• A call to worship and acknowledge Christ's supremacy
+• Reminders of God's blessings, protection, and provision
+• Reflections on mortality and the fleeting nature of human endeavors
+• Praise and adoration for Christ as King and Savior

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+[0.00 --> 1.92]  The way you see
+[1.92 --> 9.32]  Somebody with a hurt that I could've held
+[9.32 --> 12.26]  Somebody with a hand that I could've held
+[12.26 --> 14.94]  When I just can't see past myself
+[14.94 --> 16.82]  Lord, help me be
+[16.82 --> 19.02]  A little more like mercy
+[19.02 --> 22.16]  A little more like grace
+[22.16 --> 24.76]  A little more like kindness
+[24.76 --> 28.20]  Goodness, love and faith
+[28.20 --> 30.90]  A little more like patience
+[30.90 --> 33.58]  A little more like peace
+[33.58 --> 36.00]  A little more like Jesus
+[36.00 --> 39.08]  A little less like me
+[39.08 --> 43.32]  Oh, I want to feed the beggar on the street
+[43.32 --> 46.12]  Love to be your hands and feet
+[46.12 --> 48.82]  Freely give what I receive
+[48.82 --> 50.72]  Lord, help me be
+[50.72 --> 54.74]  I want to put you first of all else
+[54.74 --> 57.38]  Love my name and rest myself
+[57.38 --> 60.14]  In the moments no one sees
+[60.14 --> 62.76]  Lord, help me be
+[62.76 --> 68.26]  One, two, one
+[68.26 --> 69.86]  A little more like mercy
+[69.86 --> 72.86]  A little more like grace
+[72.86 --> 75.50]  A little more like kindness
+[75.50 --> 76.50]  Goodness, goodness
+[76.50 --> 78.50]  Love and faith
+[78.50 --> 80.50]  A little more like patience
+[80.50 --> 81.50]  A little more like peace
+[81.50 --> 83.50]  A little more like peace
+[83.50 --> 85.50]  A little more like Jesus
+[85.50 --> 88.50]  A little less like me
+[88.50 --> 89.88]  A little more like living
+[89.88 --> 92.50]  Everything I preach
+[92.50 --> 93.50]  A little more like Jesus
+[93.50 --> 96.50]  A little less like me
+[96.50 --> 97.50]  A little more like Jesus
+[97.50 --> 98.50]  A little less like me
+[98.50 --> 99.50]  A little more like Jesus
+[99.50 --> 103.50]  A little less like me
+[103.50 --> 106.50]  Oh, a little less like me
+[106.50 --> 107.50]  I want to put you put on your life
+[107.50 --> 108.94]  I want to thank you
+[108.94 --> 109.42]  I want to praise you
+[109.42 --> 109.50]  By the way
+[109.50 --> 111.26]  I want to thank you
+[111.26 --> 111.42]  opposed my best
+[111.42 --> 112.00]  To flow to churches
+[112.00 --> 114.38]  Divorce
+[114.38 --> 115.26]  timing
+[115.26 --> 116.10]  I want to do
+[116.10 --> 117.46]  ace
+[117.46 --> 118.06]  Versailles
+[118.06 --> 119.16]  Ass Fields
+[119.16 --> 119.34]  ...
+[119.34 --> 119.98]  Drives
+[119.98 --> 120.96]  ...
+[120.96 --> 121.34]  Home
+[121.34 --> 121.80]  ...
+[121.80 --> 123.32]  after
+[123.32 --> 148.00]  I'll never be more loved than I am right now
+[148.00 --> 155.00]  Wasn't holding you up, so there's nothing I can do to let you down
+[155.00 --> 162.00]  It doesn't take a trophy to make you proud
+[162.00 --> 169.00]  I'll never be more loved than I am right now, ooh
+[169.00 --> 175.00]  Going through a storm, but I won't go down
+[175.00 --> 182.00]  I hear your voice carried in the rhythm of the wind to call me out
+[182.00 --> 190.00]  You would cross an ocean, so I wouldn't drown
+[190.00 --> 195.00]  You've never been closer than you are right now
+[195.00 --> 196.00]  Sing it loud, y'all
+[196.00 --> 203.00]  You are a child, you are enough
+[203.00 --> 210.00]  Jira, you are enough
+[210.00 --> 213.00]  And I will be content
+[213.00 --> 214.00]  Even in this
+[214.00 --> 217.00]  In every circumstance
+[217.00 --> 223.00]  You are a child, you are enough
+[223.00 --> 227.00]  Forever enough, always enough
+[227.00 --> 229.00]  More than enough
+[229.00 --> 234.00]  Forever enough, always enough
+[234.00 --> 236.00]  More than enough
+[236.00 --> 241.00]  I don't wanna forget
+[241.00 --> 244.00]  How I feel right now
+[244.00 --> 246.00]  On the mountain top
+[246.00 --> 251.00]  I can see so clear what it's all about
+[251.00 --> 255.00]  So stay by my side
+[255.00 --> 259.00]  When the sun goes down
+[259.00 --> 264.00]  Don't wanna forget how I feel right now
+[264.00 --> 267.00]  You are a child, you are enough
+[267.00 --> 269.00]  You are a child, you are enough
+[269.00 --> 274.00]  You are a child, you are enough
+[274.00 --> 279.00]  So I will be, I will be content
+[279.00 --> 282.00]  Even in this right now
+[282.00 --> 285.00]  In every circumstance
+[285.00 --> 287.00]  Cause I'm Lord the child
+[287.00 --> 289.00]  He is always enough
+[289.00 --> 290.00]  You are always enough
+[290.00 --> 291.00]  You are enough
+[291.00 --> 292.00]  You are enough
+[292.00 --> 294.00]  He's forever enough
+[294.00 --> 295.00]  Always enough
+[295.00 --> 297.00]  Always more than enough
+[297.00 --> 299.00]  He is, he is
+[299.00 --> 300.00]  Forever enough
+[300.00 --> 302.00]  When I lose everything
+[302.00 --> 303.00]  He's always
+[303.00 --> 304.00]  Forever enough
+[304.00 --> 306.00]  Yeah
+[306.00 --> 308.00]  I'm already loved
+[308.00 --> 312.00]  I'm already chosen
+[312.00 --> 314.00]  I know who I am
+[314.00 --> 315.00]  I know who I am
+[315.00 --> 316.00]  I know who I am
+[316.00 --> 319.00]  I know what you've spoken
+[319.00 --> 321.00]  I'm already loved
+[321.00 --> 322.00]  I'm already loved
+[322.00 --> 325.00]  More than I could imagine
+[325.00 --> 329.00]  And that is enough
+[329.00 --> 331.00]  Oh, I'm already loved
+[331.00 --> 333.00]  I'm already loved
+[333.00 --> 334.00]  I'm already loved
+[334.00 --> 336.00]  I'm already chosen
+[336.00 --> 338.00]  I'm already chosen
+[338.00 --> 339.00]  I know who I am
+[339.00 --> 342.00]  I know who I am
+[342.00 --> 344.00]  I know what you've spoken
+[344.00 --> 346.00]  I know what you've spoken
+[346.00 --> 347.00]  I'm already loved
+[347.00 --> 352.00]  More than I could imagine
+[352.00 --> 354.00]  That is enough
+[354.00 --> 356.00]  That is enough
+[356.00 --> 365.00]  Is enough
+[365.00 --> 366.00]  If you have
+[366.00 --> 367.00]  I am
+[367.00 --> 368.00]  I know who I am
+[368.00 --> 369.00]  I know who I am
+[369.00 --> 373.00]  I know what you've spoken
+[373.00 --> 375.00]  I'm already loved
+[375.00 --> 378.00]  More than I could even feather
+[378.00 --> 380.00]  God is enough
+[380.00 --> 382.00]  And that is enough.
+[382.00 --> 384.00]  And that is enough.
+[384.00 --> 386.00]  It's enough.
+[386.00 --> 388.00]  It's enough.
+[388.00 --> 390.00]  And that is enough.
+[390.00 --> 394.00]  What His truth says is better than anything.
+[394.00 --> 396.00]  That is enough.
+[396.00 --> 400.00]  What He's declared over us, it's true.
+[400.00 --> 402.00]  That is enough.
+[402.00 --> 404.00]  That is enough.
+[404.00 --> 406.00]  That is enough.
+[406.00 --> 408.00]  That is enough.
+[408.00 --> 410.00]  someone.
+[410.00 --> 412.00]  That is enough.
+[412.00 --> 414.00]  That is enough.
+[414.00 --> 416.00]  I should die You are.
+[416.00 --> 420.00]  When I have You out of everything
+[420.00 --> 424.00]  When I have Jesus out of everything
+[424.00 --> 426.00]  That is enough.
+[426.00 --> 428.00]  That is enough.
+[428.00 --> 430.00]  Cause You are enough.
+[430.00 --> 432.00]  You are enough.
+[432.00 --> 434.00]  You're my portion.
+[434.00 --> 463.98]  You are enough.
+[464.00 --> 469.00]  You are enough.
+[471.00 --> 474.00]  I will be content.
+[474.00 --> 477.00]  Every circle.
+[477.00 --> 483.00]  You are enough.
+[483.00 --> 493.00]  You are enough.
+[493.00 --> 495.00]  You are enough.
+[495.00 --> 499.00]  You are enough.
+[499.00 --> 501.00]  You are enough.
+[501.00 --> 503.00]  You are enough.
+[503.00 --> 505.00]  You are enough.
+[505.00 --> 510.00]  You are enough.
+[510.00 --> 513.00]  You are enough.
+[513.00 --> 519.00]  You are enough.
+[519.00 --> 520.00]  You are enough.
+[520.00 --> 521.00]  You are enough.
+[521.00 --> 523.00]  You are enough.
+[523.00 --> 527.00]  How much more does he love you?
+[527.00 --> 532.00]  If he dresses you with beauty and splendor
+[532.00 --> 539.00]  How much more will he love you?
+[539.00 --> 546.00]  If he watches over every spiral
+[546.00 --> 551.00]  How much more does he love you?
+[551.00 --> 554.00]  How much more does he love you?
+[554.00 --> 560.00]  If he dresses you with beauty and splendor
+[560.00 --> 565.00]  How much more will he love you?
+[565.00 --> 568.00]  How much more will he love you?
+[568.00 --> 575.00]  If he watches over every spiral
+[575.00 --> 579.00]  How much more does he love you?
+[581.00 --> 590.00]  Good
+[590.00 --> 593.00]  Everyone awake?
+[593.00 --> 595.00]  Alright
+[595.00 --> 598.00]  Welcome to church
+[598.00 --> 600.00]  Good morning, how are we doing?
+[600.00 --> 607.00]  Alright, half of us are good, the other half are still asleep. Excellent.
+[607.00 --> 619.00]  My name is Chris and it's my privilege to lead you here in our worship together, along with these others on stage and those who are lazily making their way to the stage.
+[619.00 --> 631.00]  We are really excited this morning in our worship. We have the chance to participate in and witness three baptisms of some of our littlest covenant family members.
+[631.00 --> 634.00]  And so later in our service, you will see that.
+[634.00 --> 642.00]  And so, whether you are here in person or participating online, please know that that covenant family extends out to you.
+[642.00 --> 650.00]  And when we respond later in the service in promise of support, you at home, I encourage you to do that with us as well.
+[650.00 --> 656.00]  Before we begin, there are a couple announcements that we want to make.
+[656.00 --> 659.00]  First of all, I want to draw your attention.
+[659.00 --> 667.00]  If you are part of our covenant family here, you probably receive an e-bulletin each week and maybe a midweek memo as well.
+[667.00 --> 672.00]  In the e-bulletin and midweek memo is a survey from the library team.
+[672.00 --> 682.00]  And so, we are trying to gauge use of the church library here and how we can do that better or more effectively or more appropriately to your needs.
+[682.00 --> 692.00]  And so, please take time to find that in the e-bulletin and follow through with that survey so that we can best serve you in that capacity.
+[692.00 --> 702.00]  Also, just a note for prayer this week on Tuesday, CLASSIS, which is the regional gathering of CRC churches that we are part of, is happening.
+[702.00 --> 710.00]  It will be a Zoom meeting on Tuesday, but we encourage you to pray for the church leaders and those who gather on that day.
+[710.00 --> 728.00]  As well, the Safe Church team, specifically the first aid and health aspect of it, is looking for a few point people to be sort of on call or on duty during our worship service.
+[728.00 --> 740.00]  And so, we want to have someone who will be our sort of point person for issues of first aid or emergency healthcare or whatever, who knows that they are responsible should an issue happen.
+[740.00 --> 748.00]  To be that kind of person, we are asking that you would have either first aid training or that you have experience in healthcare.
+[748.00 --> 759.00]  If that's something that you might be interested in, if we can populate a list of five or six or ten people so that you can have an assigned week or month, that would be really great.
+[759.00 --> 764.00]  And so, if that's something you are interested in, you can talk to Heather. Heather, you're here this morning. Wave.
+[764.00 --> 769.00]  Hi, Heather, so everyone can see. That's Heather. She's embarrassed that I called her out like that.
+[769.00 --> 776.00]  You can grab her or you can grab me if you don't know who Heather is, and I will introduce you to Heather following our time together.
+[776.00 --> 781.00]  Also, we're really grateful this past week that the cadets ministry started.
+[781.00 --> 786.00]  There was 17 boys out and are expecting a few more to come out for that, and that was a really good time.
+[786.00 --> 790.00]  We're excited for that. And the GEMS ministry is getting started.
+[790.00 --> 794.00]  Now, there was a bit of a misprint in the announcements in the e-bulletin.
+[794.00 --> 800.00]  And so, the first GEMS meeting is not this week. This week will be a GEMS leaders meeting.
+[800.00 --> 806.00]  So, clarification, GEMS leaders meeting, GEMS counselors meeting happening this week, Thursday.
+[806.00 --> 810.00]  And then, in two weeks' time, GEMS for the girls will begin.
+[810.00 --> 813.00]  We are still looking for a couple counselors for GEMS.
+[813.00 --> 816.00]  And so, if you can, please talk to Courtney. Courtney is at the back. She can wave.
+[816.00 --> 821.00]  Yep, very good. You can talk to her and get service there.
+[821.00 --> 828.00]  And then, lastly, but definitely not least, tonight begins Catechism for the Youth.
+[828.00 --> 837.00]  And so, if you are in our youth program, grades 9 to 12, you have a chance to come here and to study and to learn about our Christian faith.
+[837.00 --> 843.00]  And if you have any questions about that, Pastor Kevin is here. He can address those.
+[843.00 --> 846.00]  I think I got them all checked. All right.
+[846.00 --> 848.00]  We're going to worship our God together this morning.
+[848.00 --> 857.00]  And to do that, I'm going to invite you to stand, if you are able, that we might be gathered up in his presence as he welcomes us here.
+[857.00 --> 862.00]  And so, receive the greeting of our God.
+[862.00 --> 874.00]  Grace, mercy, and peace to you from God our Father, from the Lord Jesus Christ, his Son, and our Savior, through the presence and power of the Holy Spirit.
+[874.00 --> 877.00]  All God's people said, Amen.
+[877.00 --> 879.00]  Let's worship our God this morning.
+[879.00 --> 908.00]  Let the King of my heart be the mountain where I run, the fountain I drink from, oh, he is mine.
+[908.00 --> 925.00]  Let the King of my heart be the shadow where I hide, the ransom for my life, oh, he is my song.
+[925.00 --> 954.00]  You are good, good, oh, you are good, good, oh, you are good, good, oh.
+[954.00 --> 968.00]  Let the King of my heart be the wind inside my sails, the anchor in the waves, oh, he is my song.
+[968.00 --> 982.00]  Let the King of my heart be the King of my heart be the fire inside my veins, the echo of my days, oh, he is my song.
+[982.00 --> 983.00]  Let the King of my heart be the lion, the sight of my heart be the yellow31.
+[983.00 --> 984.00]  Let the King of my heart be the energy in the wilderness, oh, you are good, good, oh.
+[984.00 --> 997.00]  Let the King of my heart be a little fan in the waves, when my sovereign fleeting says oh, you are good, good, oh, you are good, oh, you are good, good, oh.
+[997.00 --> 1004.00]  You are good, good home
+[1004.00 --> 1012.00]  You are good, good home
+[1012.00 --> 1020.00]  You're never gonna let, never gonna let me down
+[1020.00 --> 1039.00]  You're never gonna let, never gonna let me down
+[1039.00 --> 1049.00]  You're never gonna let, never gonna let me down
+[1049.00 --> 1068.64]  You're never gonna let, never gonna let me down.
+[1068.64 --> 1095.40]  You are good, good, oh, you are good, good, oh, you are good, good, oh.
+[1098.64 --> 1126.36]  When the night is holding on to me, God is holding on.
+[1126.36 --> 1140.36]  When the night is holding on to me, God is holding on.
+[1140.36 --> 1141.36]  Amen.
+[1170.36 --> 1179.76]  You have been a refuge for the poor, a refuge for the needy in their distress, a shelter from the storm and a shade from the heat.
+[1180.66 --> 1181.90]  Surely this is our God.
+[1182.16 --> 1184.04]  We trusted him and he saved us.
+[1184.58 --> 1185.46]  This is the Lord.
+[1185.86 --> 1186.78]  We trusted in him.
+[1187.30 --> 1189.70]  Let us rejoice and be glad in his salvation.
+[1189.70 --> 1191.70]  We trusted him and he saved us.
+[1191.70 --> 1195.70]  We trusted him and he saved us.
+[1195.70 --> 1209.70]  We trusted him and he saved us.
+[1209.70 --> 1211.90]  I will worship.
+[1212.42 --> 1214.08]  I will worship.
+[1214.32 --> 1216.32]  With all of my heart.
+[1216.58 --> 1218.62]  With all of my heart.
+[1219.14 --> 1221.36]  I will praise you.
+[1221.44 --> 1223.38]  I will praise you.
+[1223.38 --> 1225.78]  With all of my strength.
+[1225.94 --> 1227.70]  All my strength.
+[1227.70 --> 1238.82]  I will praise you.
+[1241.98 --> 1244.24]  Could be all of your strength.
+[1244.24 --> 1246.12]  Speaking of all of my strength.
+[1246.12 --> 1251.00]  I will give you all my worship
+[1251.00 --> 1256.32]  I will give you all my praise
+[1256.32 --> 1260.36]  You alone I long to worship
+[1260.36 --> 1265.94]  You alone I worthy of my praise
+[1265.94 --> 1269.88]  I will bow down
+[1269.88 --> 1272.28]  And hail you as King
+[1272.28 --> 1277.28]  I will worship
+[1277.28 --> 1279.28]  I will serve you
+[1279.28 --> 1281.28]  Give you everything
+[1281.28 --> 1283.28]  Everything
+[1283.28 --> 1286.28]  I will lift up
+[1286.28 --> 1288.28]  I will lift up
+[1288.28 --> 1290.28]  My eyes to your throne
+[1290.28 --> 1293.28]  My eyes to your throne
+[1293.28 --> 1295.28]  I will trust you
+[1295.28 --> 1297.28]  I will trust you
+[1297.28 --> 1299.28]  Trust you alone
+[1299.28 --> 1302.28]  Just you alone
+[1302.28 --> 1306.28]  I will give you all my worship
+[1306.28 --> 1311.28]  I will give you all my praise
+[1311.28 --> 1316.28]  You alone I long to worship
+[1316.28 --> 1320.28]  You alone I worthy of my praise
+[1320.28 --> 1325.28]  You alone I worthy of my praise
+[1325.28 --> 1330.28]  You alone I worthy of my praise
+[1330.28 --> 1335.28]  You alone I long to worship
+[1335.28 --> 1341.28]  You alone I worthy of my praise
+[1341.28 --> 1353.28]  Lord, we come before you in worship
+[1353.28 --> 1354.28]  Praising your name
+[1354.28 --> 1356.28]  Praising you for what you have done
+[1356.28 --> 1358.28]  You are king over our lives
+[1358.28 --> 1360.28]  And we have been chosen by you
+[1360.28 --> 1362.28]  But we stumble and we disobey
+[1362.28 --> 1364.28]  You are faithful
+[1364.28 --> 1366.28]  But we grow weary
+[1366.28 --> 1367.28]  You are merciful
+[1367.28 --> 1369.28]  But we hide in our shame
+[1369.28 --> 1371.28]  You are our sturdy rock
+[1371.28 --> 1373.28]  But we step onto the sand
+[1373.28 --> 1374.28]  And we sink into the waves
+[1374.28 --> 1376.28]  Remind us of who we are
+[1376.28 --> 1377.28]  Because of you
+[1377.28 --> 1379.28]  Remind us when we grow weary
+[1379.28 --> 1380.28]  In our striving
+[1380.28 --> 1382.28]  That we can lean on your faithfulness
+[1382.28 --> 1384.28]  Remind us that when we feel guilt
+[1384.28 --> 1385.28]  And shame
+[1385.28 --> 1388.28]  Your mercies are ever flowing
+[1388.28 --> 1389.28]  Remind us when we see
+[1389.28 --> 1391.28]  The chaotic world around us
+[1391.28 --> 1394.28]  That in you remain the same sturdy rock
+[1394.28 --> 1395.28]  That we can always rely on
+[1395.28 --> 1397.28]  Because we are your chosen people
+[1397.28 --> 1399.28]  And we are made new in you
+[1399.28 --> 1419.28]  You unravel me with a melody
+[1419.28 --> 1424.28]  With a melody
+[1424.28 --> 1429.28]  You surround me with a song
+[1429.28 --> 1433.28]  Of deliverance
+[1433.28 --> 1437.28]  From my enemies
+[1437.28 --> 1443.28]  Till all my fears are gone
+[1443.28 --> 1445.28]  I'm no longer a slave to fear
+[1445.28 --> 1458.28]  I am a child of God
+[1458.28 --> 1464.28]  I'm no longer a slave to fear
+[1464.28 --> 1471.28]  I am a child of God
+[1471.28 --> 1487.28]  From my mother's womb
+[1487.28 --> 1488.28]  You have chosen me
+[1488.28 --> 1489.28]  You have chosen me
+[1489.28 --> 1490.28]  Your love has called my name
+[1490.28 --> 1494.28]  Your love has called my name
+[1494.28 --> 1498.28]  Your love has called my name
+[1498.28 --> 1502.28]  I've been born again
+[1502.28 --> 1504.28]  Into your family
+[1504.28 --> 1508.28]  Your blood flows through my veins
+[1508.28 --> 1513.28]  Flows through my veins
+[1513.28 --> 1518.28]  I'm no longer a slave to fear
+[1518.28 --> 1523.28]  I am a child of God
+[1523.28 --> 1536.28]  I'm no longer a slave to fear
+[1536.28 --> 1541.28]  I am a child of God
+[1541.28 --> 1556.28]  I am a child of God
+[1556.28 --> 1562.28]  I'm no longer a slave to fear
+[1562.28 --> 1565.28]  I am a child of God
+[1565.28 --> 1569.28]  I am a child of God
+[1569.28 --> 1570.28]  But I'm no longer a slave to fear
+[1571.28 --> 1572.28]  I am a child of God
+[1572.28 --> 1573.28]  I am a child of God
+[1573.28 --> 1577.94]  I am an elder
+[1577.94 --> 1579.78]  O-oh
+[1579.78 --> 1583.28]  O-oh
+[1583.28 --> 1586.66]  O-oh
+[1586.66 --> 1588.28]  O-oh
+[1588.28 --> 1589.72]  O-oh
+[1589.72 --> 1592.72]  O-oh
+[1592.76 --> 1595.28]  O-oh
+[1595.28 --> 1595.54]  O-oh
+[1595.54 --> 1597.42]  O-oh
+[1597.42 --> 1604.22]  You split the sea so I could walk right through it.
+[1604.22 --> 1609.42]  My fears were drowned in perfect love.
+[1611.56 --> 1617.72]  You rescued me so I could stand and sing.
+[1618.04 --> 1622.94]  I am a child of God.
+[1622.94 --> 1632.32]  You split the sea so I could walk right through it.
+[1632.32 --> 1637.32]  My fears were drowned in perfect love.
+[1637.32 --> 1645.42]  You rescued me so I could stand and sing.
+[1645.42 --> 1651.80]  I am a child of God.
+[1651.80 --> 1658.44]  I am a child of God.
+[1658.44 --> 1660.18]  What a thief!
+[1660.18 --> 1665.18]  I am a child of God.
+[1665.18 --> 1674.56]  I am a child of God.
+[1674.56 --> 1679.56]  I am a child of God.
+[1679.56 --> 1685.94]  I am a child of God.
+[1685.94 --> 1693.94]  I'm no longer a slave to fear.
+[1693.94 --> 1698.94]  I am a child of God.
+[1698.94 --> 1708.32]  I am a child of God.
+[1708.32 --> 1709.32]  You may be seated.
+[1709.32 --> 1735.70]  I am a child of God.
+[1735.70 --> 1736.70]  Good morning.
+[1736.70 --> 1747.08]  Today's budget is for refugee chaplain Dina Nikolai and also for the budget.
+[1747.08 --> 1754.70]  Dina Nikolai is the chaplain and refugee support mobilizer as well as commissioner, pastor with
+[1754.70 --> 1756.08]  the CRC church.
+[1756.08 --> 1761.08]  Dina offers her presence and supports refugees who are new to Canada.
+[1761.08 --> 1769.28]  She helps refugees access service at the Immigration Service Society of BC and acts as a bridge between
+[1769.28 --> 1776.46]  churches and new comers as well as helping them integrate into communities here in BC.
+[1776.46 --> 1782.14]  Unless otherwise noted, all offerings will go towards the refugee chaplain, Dina Nikolai.
+[1782.14 --> 1811.48]  F
+[1812.14 --> 1820.94]  The truth is found, and every page with glory filled.
+[1825.32 --> 1831.36]  Through faith alone we come to you.
+[1832.12 --> 1837.42]  We have no merit we can claim.
+[1837.42 --> 1849.42]  Sure that your promises are true, we place our hope in Jesus' name.
+[1850.70 --> 1861.74]  Gloria, Gloria, glory to God alone.
+[1861.74 --> 1873.90]  Gloria, Gloria, glory to God alone.
+[1873.90 --> 1888.10]  In Christ alone we're justified.
+[1889.48 --> 1894.46]  His righteousness is all our plea.
+[1895.78 --> 1900.90]  Your lost demands are satisfied.
+[1900.90 --> 1907.00]  His perfect work has set us free.
+[1907.88 --> 1917.90]  Gloria, Gloria, glory to God alone.
+[1917.90 --> 1929.90]  Gloria, Gloria, glory to God alone.
+[1929.90 --> 1946.06]  By grace alone we have been saved.
+[1946.46 --> 1951.78]  All that we are has come from you.
+[1951.78 --> 1958.22]  Hearts that were once by sin enslaved.
+[1958.76 --> 1963.78]  Now by your power have been made new.
+[1965.22 --> 1975.78]  Gloria, Gloria, glory to God alone.
+[1975.78 --> 1987.78]  Gloria, Gloria, glory to God alone.
+[1987.78 --> 1999.78]  Gloria, Gloria, glory to God alone.
+[1999.78 --> 2011.66]  Gloria, Gloria, Gloria, glory to God alone.
+[2011.66 --> 2012.00]  Gloria, Gloria, Gloria, glory to God alone.
+[2012.12 --> 2015.62]  Gloria, Gloria, Gloria, Gloria, Gloria to God alone.
+[2015.66 --> 2021.54]  Gloria, Gloria, Gloria, Gloria, Gloria, Gloria, Gloria, Gloria, Gloria, Gloria, Gloria, Gloria, Gloria, Gloria, Gloria, Gloria, Gloria, Gloria, Gloria, Gloria, Gloria, Gloria, Gloria, Gloria, Gloria, Gloria, Gloria, Gloria, Gloria, Gloria, Gloria.
+[2021.54 --> 2042.16]  It is our great privilege this morning in our worship to administer the sacrament of baptism
+[2042.16 --> 2050.32]  to three of our little children. Now, I say this all the time when we come together for baptism,
+[2050.32 --> 2055.96]  but I want to be really clear. We do not believe that there's anything magical about the water that
+[2055.96 --> 2062.42]  we are going to put on these kids today, but we do recognize that this is a miraculous mystery of
+[2062.42 --> 2069.76]  God's grace. That's what we are acknowledging here. The water doesn't wash away original sin or save
+[2069.76 --> 2077.96]  the child. Only Jesus' life, death, resurrection, and exaltation in our place does that. We believe
+[2077.96 --> 2084.80]  that these children are sinful by nature and that the promises of God for the forgiveness of sins and
+[2084.80 --> 2092.12]  life in the Holy Spirit applies to them. We baptize our kids not out of superstition or out of tradition
+[2092.12 --> 2098.78]  or because we like really cute babies. We baptize infants because they are covenant children
+[2098.78 --> 2108.36]  and therefore should receive the covenant. In Genesis 15, God made a covenant with Abraham,
+[2109.08 --> 2115.38]  and that covenant was sealed in the sign of circumcision in Genesis 17, and God promised to
+[2115.38 --> 2123.78]  bless Abraham. Now, for Abraham, that meant two things in particular. It meant offspring and it meant land.
+[2123.78 --> 2132.52]  But at the heart of this covenant was God's promise that he would be a God to Abraham and his children.
+[2133.74 --> 2143.60]  And so, God cut a covenant into Israel's flesh, carving out a people for himself. And these people
+[2143.60 --> 2152.44]  would be a light home, a light on the path home for all of humanity. Now, in the fullness of time,
+[2152.44 --> 2162.02]  then, God sent his Son, Jesus, to be our Savior. And in his death on the cross, our old self is dead
+[2162.02 --> 2169.76]  and buried. And in his resurrection, we are raised into newness of life with him, and we look forward
+[2169.76 --> 2177.32]  to that grand and glorious new creation. When we are baptized in the name of the Father and of the Son
+[2177.32 --> 2184.36]  and of the Holy Spirit, the triune God, seals our adoption as his children and writes his name invisibly
+[2184.36 --> 2193.82]  on our foreheads. He says, you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people belonging
+[2193.82 --> 2202.86]  to God. Once you were not a people, but now you are the people of God. By baptism, we have a new covenant
+[2202.86 --> 2211.04]  identity in Jesus Christ. And so, when we gather here on this day to administer the sacrament of
+[2211.04 --> 2218.18]  baptism to these children, we do so with the weight of church history to encourage us, with the example
+[2218.18 --> 2225.96]  of redemptive history to confirm our practice. We baptize in obedience to Christ's command.
+[2225.96 --> 2232.40]  The sacrament that we are about to administer is a sign of the inclusion into the covenant community,
+[2232.76 --> 2238.06]  just as circumcision was. And the water that we are about to sprinkle is a sign of the cleansing from
+[2238.06 --> 2245.98]  sin, as the sprinkled blood of bulls and goats in the Old Testament was. Today, we pray that Dawson
+[2245.98 --> 2251.82]  and April and Reuben will take advantage of all their covenant privileges, that they will acknowledge
+[2251.82 --> 2258.36]  the Lord all the days of their life, and by faith, they will make these promises their own.
+[2259.56 --> 2265.28]  And so, Dave and Sheila, Justin and Tanya, Matt and Annalise, I want to invite you to come up to the front
+[2265.28 --> 2271.62]  and just sort of spread yourselves out with your crews across the stage here, or across the bottom.
+[2271.62 --> 2298.92]  Okay, so, standing here, since you have presented your children for baptism, we're going to ask you a series of questions,
+[2298.92 --> 2301.92]  and then invite you to come up to the pond, and we'll...
+[2301.92 --> 2303.46]  together.
+[2303.46 --> 2323.14]  Okay.
+[2323.14 --> 2323.16]  Okay.
+[2323.50 --> 2323.68]  Whoa.
+[2326.08 --> 2326.52]  Yeah?
+[2327.32 --> 2328.72]  Oh, I don't know what's going on.
+[2331.12 --> 2332.76]  Don't do too much. Don't move.
+[2333.46 --> 2335.96]  Don't say a word.
+[2336.32 --> 2337.44]  All right, we're going to be here for a while.
+[2339.68 --> 2340.04]  Okay.
+[2340.74 --> 2343.16]  If you didn't catch anything I said before, talk to me after.
+[2343.68 --> 2344.32]  I'll repeat it.
+[2345.84 --> 2351.54]  All right, I'm going to ask you guys a series of questions, and then we'll come along and then ask you to respond
+[2351.54 --> 2354.44]  individually as families together.
+[2356.48 --> 2359.64]  Dave and Sheila, Justin and Tanya, Matt and Annalise.
+[2359.64 --> 2366.76]  Since you have presented these children for baptism, we ask you these questions.
+[2366.76 --> 2378.12]  Do you believe that your children, though sinful by nature, are received by God in Christ as members of his covenant and therefore ought to be baptized?
+[2378.12 --> 2399.12]  And do you promise, in reliance on the Holy Spirit, with the help of this Christian community, to do all you can in your power to instruct these little ones and all your children in the Christian faith and lead them by your example into the life of Christian discipleship?
+[2399.12 --> 2402.60]  Dave and Sheila, what is your answer?
+[2403.56 --> 2403.90]  We do.
+[2404.12 --> 2404.60]  God help you.
+[2405.92 --> 2407.64]  Matt and Annalise, what is your answer?
+[2408.24 --> 2408.60]  We do.
+[2408.80 --> 2409.34]  God help you.
+[2410.84 --> 2412.64]  Justin and Tanya, what is your answer?
+[2413.30 --> 2413.76]  We do.
+[2413.98 --> 2414.46]  God help you.
+[2414.46 --> 2417.56]  I'm not sure that one was working either, but anyway.
+[2418.18 --> 2419.04]  They all said we do.
+[2419.70 --> 2420.86]  They all asked for God's help.
+[2423.78 --> 2424.34]  All right.
+[2425.54 --> 2434.04]  This point, parents, if you are comfortable with this, I'm going to invite you to send your little kids up to the front, and we're going to gather over here.
+[2434.12 --> 2436.68]  So if you guys just move just a little bit here so we have some room.
+[2437.08 --> 2449.22]  Kids, if you come here and just sort of sit down in this space, you can come up and see what's happening here as we remember that our Lord Jesus invited all the little children to come to him.
+[2449.22 --> 2454.54]  And he said, do not hinder them, for the kingdom of God belongs to such as these.
+[2454.64 --> 2457.02]  And so you guys are going to want to be able to see right over here, okay?
+[2457.02 --> 2462.12]  All right.
+[2462.24 --> 2471.24]  In just a moment, we're going to invite each one of these up to receive the sacrament of baptism.
+[2472.18 --> 2475.12]  Now, some of you guys were baptized in this church, right?
+[2476.24 --> 2476.70]  Some of you.
+[2476.70 --> 2477.80]  I know, Nora, you weren't.
+[2478.50 --> 2478.98]  That's right.
+[2479.02 --> 2479.84]  But some of you were.
+[2479.94 --> 2482.50]  So some of you have seen this here before.
+[2483.06 --> 2485.28]  Do you know what this water means?
+[2485.28 --> 2487.80]  Go ahead, Zoe.
+[2491.46 --> 2493.76]  Jesus writes his name on your head.
+[2493.86 --> 2494.22]  Amen.
+[2495.18 --> 2496.34]  What a great answer.
+[2497.48 --> 2497.92]  Anyone else?
+[2497.98 --> 2498.20]  Haley?
+[2506.68 --> 2507.94]  Jesus had his feet washed.
+[2508.02 --> 2508.46]  That's right.
+[2508.98 --> 2509.36]  That's right.
+[2509.40 --> 2514.64]  So the water also symbolizes the washing of our sins, right?
+[2514.64 --> 2517.50]  And so when we have these babies come up, right?
+[2517.72 --> 2523.04]  Jesus is showing us that he washes our sins and he writes his name on our foreheads.
+[2523.52 --> 2530.64]  And so as they come up and you guys see that, I want you to think that many of you, maybe even all of you, had the same thing happen to you, right?
+[2530.70 --> 2536.38]  That this is a chance to remember that Jesus has written his name on your foreheads as well.
+[2536.38 --> 2538.44]  Why don't we come in order?
+[2538.70 --> 2540.28]  Dave and Sheila, why don't you come up here first?
+[2552.66 --> 2563.24]  Dawson, Arthur, Skipper, I baptize you in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit.
+[2563.24 --> 2564.56]  Amen.
+[2576.12 --> 2579.78]  Matt and Annalise, why don't you find a way around?
+[2579.78 --> 2597.30]  Ruben, Deodore, Birkenpass.
+[2597.96 --> 2604.70]  I baptize you in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit.
+[2605.48 --> 2605.78]  Amen.
+[2605.78 --> 2605.96]  Amen.
+[2605.96 --> 2606.00]  Amen.
+[2609.78 --> 2619.24]  And then Justin and Tanya.
+[2629.24 --> 2630.58]  Do you want Emma to come up here?
+[2632.42 --> 2633.64]  Emma, do you want to come up to you?
+[2634.72 --> 2635.06]  Yeah.
+[2635.06 --> 2635.16]  Yeah.
+[2635.60 --> 2635.66]  Yeah.
+[2635.66 --> 2635.72]  Yeah.
+[2639.78 --> 2647.94]  April, Tegan, Riley, Smith.
+[2648.34 --> 2655.66]  I baptize you in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit.
+[2657.16 --> 2657.46]  Amen.
+[2657.46 --> 2657.62]  Amen.
+[2657.62 --> 2668.90]  All right, you guys can join them down there.
+[2677.08 --> 2683.44]  This must be something about the kinds of parents this church has, but I've done a number of baptisms here, and none of the kids have cried during it.
+[2683.44 --> 2688.68]  So, for the rest of you who are thinking about baptisms, there's a bar.
+[2690.84 --> 2696.50]  Although, if we do a believer's baptism and you don't cry, like an adult baptism, hmm.
+[2699.00 --> 2703.82]  Together, we have a chance to promise these families our support.
+[2703.82 --> 2716.92]  And so, I'm going to invite you now, as a covenant family, to stand, and I will ask you a question and invite you to respond with, we do, God helping us, we do, with God's help.
+[2717.76 --> 2726.30]  Also, again, if you are at home, I invite you to respond out loud to this question as well.
+[2726.30 --> 2735.14]  And so, brothers and sisters of our Lord Jesus Christ, church, family, here, gathered and digitally present,
+[2735.56 --> 2742.36]  do you promise to love and encourage and support Dawson and April and Ruben and their families
+[2742.36 --> 2749.90]  by teaching the gospel of God's love, by being an example of Christian faith and character,
+[2750.40 --> 2756.94]  and by giving the strong support of God's family in fellowship, prayer, and service?
+[2757.30 --> 2758.04]  What is your answer?
+[2761.10 --> 2761.42]  Amen.
+[2762.10 --> 2762.44]  Amen.
+[2762.60 --> 2763.18]  You may be seated.
+[2767.02 --> 2771.48]  And now, together, receive the blessing of God.
+[2772.36 --> 2775.00]  Dawson and April and Ruben.
+[2775.76 --> 2778.26]  The Lord bless you and keep you.
+[2778.94 --> 2783.08]  The Lord make his face to shine upon you and be gracious to you.
+[2783.84 --> 2789.82]  The Lord turn his face towards you and give you his peace all your lives.
+[2790.74 --> 2796.42]  In this way, the Lord puts his name on our children and makes them his own.
+[2797.42 --> 2799.58]  Together, we say, amen.
+[2799.58 --> 2799.78]  Amen.
+[2800.90 --> 2801.62]  All right, kids.
+[2801.68 --> 2806.26]  As you make your way back to your parents, I'm going to invite Elder Eric to come up to the front.
+[2806.64 --> 2809.94]  He has a gift on behalf of the church for you guys.
+[2810.58 --> 2814.06]  Just want to note that as you open the gifts, the individual names will be there.
+[2814.16 --> 2817.04]  There is a baptismal certificate that will be coming.
+[2817.90 --> 2820.42]  Our church administrator has been on vacation for a couple weeks,
+[2820.42 --> 2822.48]  and so we don't have them printed and ready to give to you.
+[2822.48 --> 2823.48]  Thank you.
+[2823.48 --> 2823.54]  Thank you.
+[2823.54 --> 2823.60]  Thank you.
+[2823.60 --> 2823.66]  Thank you.
+[2823.66 --> 2824.04]  Thank you.
+[2824.04 --> 2824.66]  Thank you.
+[2838.66 --> 2839.18]  Thank you.
+[2843.18 --> 2845.24]  And then Mr. Mike.
+[2846.90 --> 2848.72]  Oh, coming out of the wind.
+[2848.72 --> 2849.80]  All right, here we go.
+[2852.56 --> 2853.38]  That one's for you.
+[2854.78 --> 2855.46]  Yeah, we're singing.
+[2856.98 --> 2857.58]  Worship team.
+[2857.58 --> 2857.60]  Worship team.
+[2857.60 --> 2857.70]  Worship team.
+[2861.70 --> 2872.46]  Worship team.
+[2872.46 --> 2878.54]  Worship team.
+[2878.54 --> 2879.54]  Amen.
+[2908.54 --> 2922.46]  Bless you and keep you, make his face shine upon you, be gracious to you.
+[2922.46 --> 2936.46]  The Lord turn his face towards you and give you peace.
+[2938.54 --> 2957.32]  The Lord bless you and keep you, make his face shine upon you and be gracious to you.
+[2957.32 --> 2971.76]  The Lord turn his face towards you and give you peace.
+[2971.76 --> 2975.76]  Amen.
+[2975.76 --> 2979.76]  Amen.
+[2979.76 --> 2981.76]  Amen.
+[2981.76 --> 2983.76]  Amen.
+[2983.76 --> 2985.76]  Amen.
+[2985.76 --> 2992.76]  Amen.
+[2992.76 --> 2997.76]  Amen.
+[2997.76 --> 2999.76]  Amen.
+[2999.76 --> 3003.36]  Amen
+[3003.36 --> 3010.86]  The Lord bless you
+[3010.86 --> 3014.92]  And give you
+[3014.92 --> 3019.78]  Make his face shine upon you
+[3019.78 --> 3022.94]  And be gracious to you
+[3022.94 --> 3029.94]  The Lord turn his face toward you
+[3029.94 --> 3036.94]  And give you peace
+[3036.94 --> 3044.94]  Amen
+[3044.94 --> 3048.94]  Amen
+[3048.94 --> 3056.94]  Amen
+[3056.94 --> 3062.94]  Amen
+[3062.94 --> 3066.94]  Amen
+[3066.94 --> 3070.94]  Amen
+[3070.94 --> 3078.94]  Amen
+[3078.94 --> 3080.94]  Amen
+[3080.94 --> 3082.94]  Amen
+[3082.94 --> 3084.94]  Amen
+[3084.94 --> 3090.94]  May his favor be upon you
+[3090.94 --> 3094.94]  And a thousand generations
+[3094.94 --> 3096.94]  And your family
+[3096.94 --> 3098.94]  And your children
+[3098.94 --> 3100.94]  And their children
+[3100.94 --> 3102.94]  And their children
+[3102.94 --> 3105.94]  May his favor be upon you
+[3105.94 --> 3109.94]  And a thousand generations
+[3109.94 --> 3111.94]  And your family
+[3111.94 --> 3113.94]  And your children
+[3113.94 --> 3115.94]  And their children
+[3115.94 --> 3117.94]  And their children
+[3117.94 --> 3120.94]  May his presence go before you
+[3120.94 --> 3122.94]  And behind you
+[3122.94 --> 3124.94]  And beside you
+[3124.94 --> 3126.94]  All around you
+[3126.94 --> 3128.94]  And within you
+[3128.94 --> 3130.94]  He is with you
+[3130.94 --> 3131.94]  He is with you
+[3131.94 --> 3133.94]  In the morning
+[3133.94 --> 3135.94]  In the evening
+[3135.94 --> 3137.94]  In your coming
+[3137.94 --> 3139.94]  And your going
+[3139.94 --> 3141.94]  And your weeping
+[3141.94 --> 3143.94]  And rejoicing
+[3143.94 --> 3144.66]  A hundred
+[3144.66 --> 3146.94]  He is with you
+[3146.94 --> 3147.94]  He is with you
+[3147.94 --> 3148.94]  He is with you
+[3148.94 --> 3160.28]  He is with you
+[3160.28 --> 3165.44]  Amen
+[3165.44 --> 3175.16]  Amen, Amen, Amen.
+[3175.16 --> 3190.44]  Amen, Amen, Amen.
+[3190.44 --> 3206.10]  Amen, Amen, Amen.
+[3206.10 --> 3217.90]  Amen, Amen.
+[3217.90 --> 3232.84]  Amen, Amen.
+[3232.84 --> 3233.00]  Amen.
+[3234.00 --> 3238.50]  Okay, can we have all the kids back up front to do the children's blessings so that I believe
+[3238.50 --> 3241.08]  is ages three up to grade four.
+[3247.90 --> 3253.78]  Oh, there's a good crowd this week.
+[3253.84 --> 3254.78]  Nice to see you guys.
+[3254.90 --> 3257.18]  It's been a while, I think, since I've seen some of you.
+[3257.18 --> 3262.68]  I've made it onto the interweb a time or two, Zoe.
+[3262.80 --> 3264.72]  Thanks for being a fan.
+[3266.58 --> 3271.04]  So guys, have you guys, that was pretty cool, hey, seeing all those baptisms?
+[3271.04 --> 3276.14]  It was pretty cool, hey, seeing the baptisms today.
+[3276.70 --> 3279.20]  What's one of the big things that comes from a baptism?
+[3279.40 --> 3281.72]  What's a big thing we're reminded of with a baptism?
+[3283.62 --> 3284.68]  Yeah, the water.
+[3284.82 --> 3287.34]  It signifies a huge promise, right?
+[3287.46 --> 3290.60]  God is so much bigger than us and has big promises for us.
+[3290.90 --> 3293.30]  And we've been learning about that in children's worship time, right?
+[3293.76 --> 3297.32]  Can you guys remember what we've been, let's remind our moms and dads, what have we been
+[3297.32 --> 3300.02]  learning about in children's worship time lately?
+[3300.40 --> 3301.72]  And Zoe, we've got all the answers.
+[3303.70 --> 3305.34]  Yes, last week was Noah's Ark.
+[3305.44 --> 3306.94]  We're in the book of Genesis right now.
+[3307.00 --> 3310.06]  So last week was Noah's Ark, and before that we talked about the fall.
+[3310.44 --> 3312.32]  And what was another story we talked about recently?
+[3317.86 --> 3318.70]  Is it creation?
+[3319.28 --> 3320.34]  Yeah, creation.
+[3320.34 --> 3321.36]  We talked about creation.
+[3321.78 --> 3325.96]  So this week we've got another story about God's big promises,
+[3325.96 --> 3329.04]  and that is the Tower of Babel.
+[3329.58 --> 3330.64]  That's a crazy story.
+[3331.08 --> 3332.96]  So why don't we do the children's blessing,
+[3333.48 --> 3338.10]  and then we will go gather in the big room and learn about the Tower of Babel.
+[3338.30 --> 3339.34]  So let's all stand together.
+[3341.64 --> 3343.82]  And if the congregation can stand with us.
+[3346.30 --> 3347.02]  Ready, guys?
+[3347.10 --> 3347.62]  Hands up.
+[3347.62 --> 3356.84]  All right, let's go to children's worship time.
+[3367.84 --> 3368.50]  Is this still on?
+[3368.70 --> 3369.14]  Okay, yep.
+[3371.80 --> 3372.16]  Hello?
+[3372.82 --> 3373.06]  Yeah.
+[3373.58 --> 3375.06]  Man, I don't like my voice on this thing.
+[3375.06 --> 3376.02]  Okay.
+[3376.98 --> 3377.64]  Hey, everyone.
+[3378.94 --> 3382.60]  So last week it was announced that we're doing the care packages again
+[3382.60 --> 3384.96]  for the young adults that are studying abroad.
+[3385.74 --> 3387.40]  We still need a few more volunteers.
+[3388.82 --> 3390.14]  Just a quick recap.
+[3390.14 --> 3396.24]  We're getting either individuals, families, or groups of friends to volunteer
+[3396.24 --> 3400.58]  to buy stuff to send to young adults who are studying abroad,
+[3400.58 --> 3402.84]  so they still feel connected to this congregation.
+[3403.96 --> 3408.58]  If you want to volunteer and do that, please come contact me after church.
+[3409.04 --> 3410.42]  I'll connect you with a young adult,
+[3410.58 --> 3413.30]  which can help you personalize the stuff for them.
+[3415.36 --> 3415.80]  Thanks.
+[3416.38 --> 3417.08]  We've already got a volunteer.
+[3418.92 --> 3420.50]  Yeah, so please come contact me.
+[3420.58 --> 3421.28]  It would be great.
+[3421.50 --> 3424.94]  They loved it last year, and we're hoping to do this every semester.
+[3424.94 --> 3429.64]  You guys are great people, and you guys volunteer for a lot of things,
+[3429.94 --> 3430.92]  so thank you already.
+[3431.62 --> 3432.02]  Thanks.
+[3437.40 --> 3438.18]  Thanks, Josh.
+[3439.56 --> 3441.42]  Well, good morning, everyone.
+[3441.86 --> 3443.54]  Wow, that was fantastic, the baptism.
+[3443.68 --> 3447.14]  That's awesome, and having the kids up front here always on Sunday mornings
+[3447.14 --> 3448.88]  is always great.
+[3448.88 --> 3452.66]  I enjoy this time that I have with the kids up front,
+[3452.74 --> 3454.74]  like Mike sure does, and Kevin and everybody else,
+[3454.86 --> 3459.74]  but it's nice to see that we can try to get the kids to kind of break out
+[3459.74 --> 3462.00]  and speak out in front of the church here,
+[3462.04 --> 3465.06]  because of all the things we can hear in the back there in the back room
+[3465.06 --> 3467.26]  when we're doing children's worship with them.
+[3467.32 --> 3467.98]  It's pretty special.
+[3468.18 --> 3472.68]  So we hope that you get to see a little bit of that innocence
+[3472.68 --> 3475.88]  that we hear in the back that comes out up front here in church.
+[3476.12 --> 3477.44]  So that's great.
+[3477.44 --> 3477.94]  Thank you.
+[3478.60 --> 3481.38]  Today we're going to, right now we're going to do the family prayer,
+[3481.68 --> 3485.68]  and just want to go over a few things that are going on.
+[3485.72 --> 3490.18]  There's lots going on in our community, good things and some sad things.
+[3491.12 --> 3494.38]  Kuyper's family, some blessings that are happening there,
+[3494.48 --> 3496.18]  so you can check in the bulletin about that.
+[3496.26 --> 3496.86]  That's awesome.
+[3497.80 --> 3501.34]  Of course, the baptisms this morning is pretty special.
+[3502.78 --> 3506.16]  Unfortunately, there's been within our community a few deaths that have happened.
+[3506.16 --> 3511.04]  Joanne Miles has a nephew back in Saskatchewan that has passed away of cancer.
+[3512.78 --> 3516.48]  And close to home, Karen Vartstra's dad has passed away in the last week
+[3516.48 --> 3518.68]  from complications of COVID.
+[3519.86 --> 3524.90]  Some other COVID sadnesses happened.
+[3525.16 --> 3529.02]  Greta Visser's aunt, Mrs. Terpstra, also has passed away,
+[3529.02 --> 3535.64]  as well as Tim Bonkis' grandmother, passed away as well in the last week.
+[3536.46 --> 3539.94]  And of course, last week we had Peter Spahn and his kids were here,
+[3540.04 --> 3546.78]  so there's some more sadness that is happening there with COVID as well.
+[3546.78 --> 3552.10]  Kevin had mentioned to us that Patrick, Sarah Kring's brother,
+[3552.24 --> 3557.26]  has had a successful surgery, so that's an item of thanks.
+[3558.38 --> 3561.68]  And there's also a lot of people with COVID that are long haulers,
+[3561.78 --> 3564.82]  like still have respiratory issues that we need to keep in our prayer as well.
+[3564.82 --> 3569.14]  So this week we have classes is happening this week,
+[3569.20 --> 3571.22]  so there's a number of people within from our council,
+[3571.42 --> 3574.74]  as well as Pastor Chris and Kevin maybe,
+[3575.40 --> 3578.32]  going to join classes and participate in that.
+[3578.38 --> 3582.50]  That's a great event for our churches here.
+[3582.50 --> 3586.96]  And we also got to make sure we spend some time thinking about
+[3586.96 --> 3590.54]  those who are isolated, the shut-in, those who are lonely and depressed.
+[3590.70 --> 3592.10]  Like COVID's been hard on a lot of people,
+[3592.20 --> 3595.80]  so we've made all know someone in that kind of situation.
+[3595.92 --> 3597.08]  We've got to keep them in our prayers.
+[3598.38 --> 3601.58]  And with COVID, of course, a lot of people have had their surgeries
+[3601.58 --> 3603.66]  or other health care treatments that have been postponed,
+[3603.86 --> 3607.24]  so that's got to be tough on people when you're expecting to have something happen
+[3607.24 --> 3610.62]  and to better your life, and that gets postponed.
+[3610.62 --> 3612.74]  So let's keep those people in our prayers as well.
+[3613.72 --> 3617.22]  In my prayer today, I'm going to have a little bit of a break in there of silence
+[3617.22 --> 3620.00]  where you can pray for someone in your life
+[3620.00 --> 3624.38]  or that you know that you want to spend some time in prayer thinking about
+[3624.38 --> 3628.88]  and asking God for them to take care of those people.
+[3630.08 --> 3630.66]  Let's pray.
+[3631.38 --> 3632.64]  Dear God, thank you for this day.
+[3633.80 --> 3637.16]  Thank you that we can be here today and worship and fellowship together.
+[3638.00 --> 3640.28]  We're thankful for the children we see this morning
+[3640.28 --> 3642.22]  and for the baptisms we are able to witness.
+[3643.06 --> 3645.92]  We pray, Lord, that all these children will grow up knowing you
+[3645.92 --> 3649.18]  and know that they are your children
+[3649.18 --> 3652.66]  and that they know and feel the support from this church.
+[3653.72 --> 3657.54]  We are thankful, Lord, that life is beginning to get back to somewhat normal
+[3657.54 --> 3659.84]  after a year and a half of COVID restrictions.
+[3660.72 --> 3664.02]  Seeing extracurricular activities like sports and social events come back
+[3664.02 --> 3666.38]  is so encouraging and good for us social beings.
+[3666.38 --> 3671.36]  But this COVID crisis is still taking its toll and taking loved ones from us
+[3671.36 --> 3673.60]  and making others of us very sick.
+[3674.22 --> 3677.36]  We pray for healing and an end to this COVID chapter quickly.
+[3678.66 --> 3681.34]  We are thankful, Lord, for our political and health leaders
+[3681.34 --> 3684.22]  who have been navigating us through this period of unknowns,
+[3684.44 --> 3688.18]  trying to keep us all safe and healthy, both physically and mentally.
+[3690.02 --> 3692.34]  But, Lord, there are many things that we have on our minds
+[3692.34 --> 3695.42]  that cause stress and anxiety and take up a lot of our mental thoughts.
+[3696.12 --> 3699.60]  We all know someone who is sick, hurting, lonely,
+[3699.84 --> 3701.52]  suffering from mental health challenges.
+[3702.12 --> 3704.62]  And then there are those who suffer from hardships every day
+[3704.62 --> 3706.08]  that kind of get lost.
+[3707.64 --> 3710.24]  We want to take a few moments, Lord, right now in silence
+[3710.24 --> 3712.16]  to bring those concerns to you.
+[3712.16 --> 3712.22]  Thank you.
+[3712.22 --> 3712.28]  Thank you.
+[3712.28 --> 3712.30]  Thank you.
+[3722.34 --> 3732.34]  We thank you, Lord, for this church,
+[3732.58 --> 3735.24]  for the volunteers and staff that make this place happen.
+[3736.14 --> 3739.16]  We are blessed to have so many involved in the programs at this church
+[3739.16 --> 3742.80]  to make them run and help facilitate the culture in this congregation.
+[3742.80 --> 3747.30]  We pray for our staff and council as they work to keep the vision
+[3747.30 --> 3749.00]  of this church alive and moving forward.
+[3749.90 --> 3752.50]  We pray for wisdom for these people to navigate the challenges
+[3752.50 --> 3754.92]  and issues that come with being part of this church family.
+[3756.96 --> 3759.06]  Oh, Lord, may we honor you in all we do.
+[3760.24 --> 3762.86]  May we be a light for you in this world we live.
+[3763.92 --> 3767.44]  May people on our path this week see that your Holy Spirit is in us
+[3767.44 --> 3768.10]  in all we do.
+[3769.10 --> 3771.32]  And help us, Lord, not to be Sunday Christians,
+[3771.32 --> 3773.28]  but seven-day-a-week followers of you.
+[3774.38 --> 3776.12]  We ask all these things in your name alone.
+[3776.46 --> 3776.66]  Amen.
+[3792.82 --> 3794.00]  Good morning, everyone.
+[3795.34 --> 3796.14]  Microphone's good, Courtney?
+[3796.52 --> 3797.20]  Sounds good.
+[3797.52 --> 3798.44]  My voice sounds loud.
+[3798.44 --> 3803.46]  So I never had cats or dogs in my house growing up.
+[3803.80 --> 3805.04]  My mom was never really a fan.
+[3805.50 --> 3808.32]  We had fish, sure, and my sister tormented her fair share of hamsters,
+[3808.46 --> 3810.56]  but we didn't really have any pets bigger than my head
+[3810.56 --> 3812.46]  walking around our house when I was young.
+[3812.76 --> 3813.64]  They were too messy.
+[3814.00 --> 3814.84]  They were too much energy.
+[3814.94 --> 3815.70]  They were too much work.
+[3816.24 --> 3816.80]  But that was fine.
+[3817.10 --> 3817.90]  That was fine with me.
+[3817.96 --> 3819.10]  I didn't actually care that much.
+[3819.16 --> 3821.42]  I was a little bit too interested in sports
+[3821.42 --> 3824.26]  to worry about what kind of animals were in our house.
+[3824.82 --> 3826.98]  Me and my brother and my dad, we would watch sports.
+[3826.98 --> 3828.14]  We would play sports.
+[3828.22 --> 3829.54]  We were into fantasy sports.
+[3829.62 --> 3830.30]  I loved all of it.
+[3831.14 --> 3832.36]  And then I met Nikki.
+[3833.16 --> 3834.00]  She loves animals.
+[3834.24 --> 3836.72]  She grew up with cats and dogs in her house all her life.
+[3836.94 --> 3839.06]  She wasn't as into sports as I was, though.
+[3839.74 --> 3842.48]  She said soccer was dumb when we first met.
+[3843.92 --> 3845.02]  That was almost the end.
+[3846.82 --> 3848.36]  Now, in fairness, she was into gymnastics,
+[3848.58 --> 3849.46]  and she played basketball,
+[3849.46 --> 3851.44]  so it's not like sports weren't a part of her life,
+[3851.44 --> 3853.88]  but to watch them or, heaven forbid,
+[3853.98 --> 3855.48]  be a part of fantasy sports,
+[3855.48 --> 3856.70]  that never really crossed her mind.
+[3857.30 --> 3859.14]  We've been married now for 12 years.
+[3859.38 --> 3862.32]  We've just welcomed our second dog into our family
+[3862.32 --> 3863.56]  a couple months ago.
+[3863.64 --> 3864.38]  His name's Oslo.
+[3864.64 --> 3866.00]  We have a cat, too, named Nala.
+[3866.68 --> 3868.00]  I love our pets, to be honest with you.
+[3868.08 --> 3868.96]  Sounds weird, but it's true.
+[3869.00 --> 3869.20]  I do.
+[3869.26 --> 3869.96]  I love my pets.
+[3870.24 --> 3871.88]  Maybe not as much as Nikki does, but I do.
+[3872.00 --> 3873.18]  I love our dog, our cat.
+[3873.22 --> 3873.80]  We have frogs.
+[3874.68 --> 3875.56]  I love my pets.
+[3875.84 --> 3877.14]  Nikki's come around on soccer, too.
+[3877.44 --> 3880.02]  She's even played on a few soccer teams with me over the years.
+[3880.02 --> 3883.32]  She also just stepped back from playing 10 years of fantasy hockey,
+[3883.72 --> 3886.10]  fairly successful manager in our dynasty hockey pool.
+[3887.46 --> 3893.38]  It turns out you start to love what your loved ones love.
+[3894.88 --> 3895.72]  Think about it.
+[3895.72 --> 3899.00]  We've all been influenced by our parents or our caregivers in this regard.
+[3899.26 --> 3900.58]  We've inherited their hobbies.
+[3900.80 --> 3902.74]  We often follow their passions.
+[3903.14 --> 3905.06]  We love the things our friends love, too.
+[3905.38 --> 3908.40]  You watch Survivor together on Wednesday night.
+[3908.40 --> 3910.70]  You listen to the same music, perhaps.
+[3911.16 --> 3913.58]  Some of you even share clothes with your friends.
+[3914.64 --> 3917.88]  What our loved ones love, we learn to love.
+[3917.94 --> 3919.46]  It's part of being in relationship.
+[3920.10 --> 3921.52]  So think about your own life for a moment.
+[3921.62 --> 3929.20]  What is something you love now that is a direct result of someone you love loving that thing first?
+[3930.28 --> 3932.00]  So just hold on to that for a second.
+[3932.08 --> 3932.94]  It's going to come in handy later.
+[3932.94 --> 3938.98]  For now, though, grab your Bibles, open them up, pull out your phones or whatever devices your Bible's on.
+[3939.24 --> 3942.96]  We're going to look at the second chapter of 1 Peter today.
+[3943.08 --> 3949.30]  We're continuing our series on 1 Peter, and we're going to look at the second chapter right now.
+[3949.34 --> 3952.02]  We're going to read verses 4 through 10.
+[3952.02 --> 3955.72]  So grab those Bibles, open them up, and read with me there.
+[3956.62 --> 3958.54]  1 Peter 2, 4 to 10 says this.
+[3959.88 --> 3966.46]  As you come to him, the living stone, rejected by humans but chosen by God and precious to him,
+[3967.16 --> 3973.46]  you also, like living stones, are being built into a spiritual house to be a holy priesthood,
+[3973.88 --> 3978.64]  offering spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.
+[3978.64 --> 3980.66]  For in Scripture it says,
+[3980.66 --> 3985.18]  See, I lay a stone in Zion, a chosen and precious cornerstone,
+[3985.42 --> 3988.18]  and the one who trusts in him will never be put to shame.
+[3989.14 --> 3991.20]  Now to you who believe, this stone is precious.
+[3992.14 --> 3997.74]  But to those who don't believe, the stone the builders rejected has become the cornerstone,
+[3998.14 --> 4002.16]  and a stone that causes people to stumble and a rock that makes them fall.
+[4002.40 --> 4008.32]  They stumble because they disobey the message, which is also what they were destined for.
+[4008.64 --> 4018.82]  But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, God's special possession,
+[4019.48 --> 4024.94]  that you may declare the praises of him who called you out of darkness into this wonderful light.
+[4026.26 --> 4029.56]  Once you were not a people, but now you are the people of God.
+[4029.56 --> 4034.76]  Once you had not received mercy, but now you have received mercy.
+[4035.56 --> 4037.18]  The word of the Lord.
+[4040.12 --> 4046.76]  We are the church chosen by God to declare the gospel.
+[4048.28 --> 4050.58]  We are the church.
+[4050.78 --> 4053.34]  There's a lot of imagery in this text today, isn't there?
+[4053.34 --> 4055.22]  Peter, he loves his analogies.
+[4055.34 --> 4059.16]  And often, like today's text, he uses analogies that are layered.
+[4059.72 --> 4062.50]  So in verses 4 and 5 of our text today, for example,
+[4062.62 --> 4065.84]  Jesus is both the cornerstone on which the temple is built,
+[4065.98 --> 4068.04]  but also the builder who builds the temple.
+[4068.58 --> 4072.70]  And we, the readers, the people of God, we are both the temple which he is building,
+[4072.96 --> 4076.38]  but also the priests who operate in the temple.
+[4077.72 --> 4078.54]  It can be tricky.
+[4078.62 --> 4079.42]  It can be confusing.
+[4079.42 --> 4083.88]  So in light of this, let's break down some of this imagery, lay it all out, see how it works,
+[4084.04 --> 4087.28]  and then we'll move on with some of these analogies.
+[4088.92 --> 4091.20]  First, Jesus is called the living stone.
+[4091.30 --> 4092.52]  This is a mixed metaphor.
+[4092.80 --> 4097.76]  Stones, of course, they're solid, they're steadfast, they're unchanging, they're supportive.
+[4098.62 --> 4101.00]  Jesus, though, is the living stone.
+[4102.28 --> 4104.74]  He's stable, he's steadfast, he's foundational,
+[4105.16 --> 4108.56]  but he's also alive and he's active.
+[4109.42 --> 4114.04]  He's not immobile and stationary, he's involved and he's engaged.
+[4115.26 --> 4118.76]  Temple imagery dominates verses 4 and 5 of our text.
+[4118.84 --> 4122.08]  The temple was this super large and impressive building,
+[4122.16 --> 4125.52]  a place where God dwelt with his people.
+[4125.88 --> 4131.50]  It's where priests offered sacrifices to atone for the sins of the Israelite community.
+[4131.50 --> 4137.10]  The temple helped the Israelite people identify as God's people.
+[4138.34 --> 4140.82]  So for your notes' sake, here's a breakdown of this.
+[4140.92 --> 4142.26]  Jesus is the living stone.
+[4142.52 --> 4144.24]  He's active and he's steadfast.
+[4144.34 --> 4146.80]  He's the cornerstone on which his church is founded.
+[4147.12 --> 4148.38]  Jesus is also the architect.
+[4148.92 --> 4151.62]  He's the one building the temple where God dwells.
+[4152.02 --> 4157.44]  The living stones which this temple is built out of is us, the church, God's people.
+[4157.44 --> 4162.88]  Collectively, we are the church, the place where God now dwells.
+[4163.70 --> 4167.08]  And his people, us, the church, we are also the priests
+[4167.08 --> 4173.02]  in charge of offering spiritual sacrifices as our text lays out.
+[4173.60 --> 4176.62]  So all of us are now collectively the holy priesthood.
+[4177.28 --> 4181.70]  We no longer have to offer sacrifices of animals to atone for our sins
+[4181.70 --> 4185.06]  because Christ came into this world and became the ultimate sacrifice.
+[4185.06 --> 4186.94]  He was the atonement for us.
+[4187.00 --> 4187.78]  Our sins are forgiven.
+[4188.66 --> 4192.86]  So because of that sacrifice, instead of offering animal sacrifices,
+[4193.04 --> 4197.26]  we are to offer spiritual sacrifices, as our text says,
+[4197.32 --> 4201.44]  that are acceptable to God because Christ has forgiven us.
+[4202.50 --> 4205.18]  Now, Peter, later, he goes down and he starts breaking down
+[4205.18 --> 4208.56]  what these spiritual sacrifices are throughout the rest of this chapter.
+[4208.70 --> 4211.34]  And so that will come for a sermon series a little bit later.
+[4211.34 --> 4215.74]  But some of those sacrifices are things like resisting evil, doing good,
+[4216.08 --> 4221.38]  enduring pain and suffering without retaliating, and living holy lives.
+[4221.86 --> 4222.66]  You know, things like that.
+[4224.18 --> 4227.72]  So that's the very embarrassingly brief breakdown of the imagery in our text today.
+[4227.76 --> 4228.80]  But what does this all mean?
+[4231.00 --> 4233.20]  Well, we love what our loved ones love.
+[4233.20 --> 4237.54]  Our text today calls Jesus the cornerstone.
+[4238.68 --> 4242.06]  And his people, his temple.
+[4242.90 --> 4247.14]  In other places in the Word, Jesus is called the head.
+[4247.90 --> 4249.48]  And his people are the body.
+[4249.90 --> 4250.92]  Or maybe you remember this one.
+[4251.14 --> 4253.12]  In other places, Jesus is called the groom.
+[4253.68 --> 4255.72]  And again, his people are the bride.
+[4256.72 --> 4261.14]  In all of those examples, you can't have one without the other.
+[4261.14 --> 4262.70]  A head without a body is useless.
+[4263.08 --> 4265.50]  A groom without a bride is just a man.
+[4265.80 --> 4269.50]  A foundation without a building or a temple is a slab of concrete.
+[4270.42 --> 4273.64]  Jesus loves the church so much so that he died for it.
+[4274.24 --> 4275.76]  He wants to be with us.
+[4275.82 --> 4276.94]  There's a union there.
+[4277.02 --> 4278.20]  He desires that union.
+[4278.44 --> 4281.66]  And he knows that without that union, we are useless.
+[4283.02 --> 4286.02]  Without Jesus, we're a building about to crumble.
+[4286.74 --> 4289.18]  We're a headless body entering rigor mortis.
+[4289.18 --> 4292.26]  We can't be a bride without a groom.
+[4295.62 --> 4299.46]  Unfortunately, in our world today, there's many Christians, both young and old,
+[4300.42 --> 4304.16]  that feel that you can love Jesus without loving the church.
+[4305.62 --> 4309.12]  They lie on empty foundations, but they're exposed to the elements.
+[4309.26 --> 4313.50]  They want the head of Christ, but they are unwilling to be a part of the body.
+[4313.50 --> 4320.00]  They look at the groom with fondness, but they don't want to be a part or be the bride.
+[4321.10 --> 4324.54]  You can't love Jesus without loving the church.
+[4324.86 --> 4326.90]  That's not what relationship is.
+[4328.24 --> 4329.46]  Kevin DeYoung puts it this way.
+[4329.54 --> 4329.98]  It's beautiful.
+[4330.14 --> 4330.76]  It's grotesque.
+[4330.80 --> 4331.40]  But he says this.
+[4331.50 --> 4334.28]  He says, some of us want a decorpulated Christianity.
+[4334.42 --> 4335.02]  I love that word.
+[4335.28 --> 4337.36]  A decorpulated Christianity.
+[4337.36 --> 4341.50]  Some of us want a decapitated Jesus.
+[4343.32 --> 4345.54]  But you can't have Jesus without the church.
+[4345.88 --> 4347.08]  Jesus loves the church.
+[4347.58 --> 4348.94]  The church loves Jesus.
+[4350.60 --> 4356.16]  We are the church chosen by God to declare the gospel.
+[4356.16 --> 4361.98]  The language used throughout this text is together language.
+[4362.12 --> 4364.86]  This is not I language or me language.
+[4364.98 --> 4366.64]  This is we language.
+[4366.84 --> 4368.74]  We are the church that Jesus is building.
+[4369.00 --> 4370.26]  It's not made out of one stone.
+[4370.36 --> 4371.66]  It's made out of many stones.
+[4372.04 --> 4373.26]  We don't go to church.
+[4373.50 --> 4375.00]  We are the church.
+[4375.12 --> 4380.20]  This church is built up as a community who supports and lifts up one another.
+[4381.20 --> 4384.52]  Now, I've witnessed that here at this church, and it's beautiful.
+[4384.52 --> 4387.58]  This community has gone through some trying times.
+[4387.70 --> 4389.44]  It's gone through some celebratory times.
+[4389.60 --> 4391.58]  But through all of it, we've gone through it together.
+[4392.74 --> 4394.18]  That's what church family does.
+[4394.64 --> 4396.52]  When someone's going through something, you show up.
+[4396.88 --> 4397.88]  You pray for them.
+[4397.96 --> 4399.50]  You be present for them.
+[4400.86 --> 4405.56]  You can also trust that when the inevitable day comes, when you're going through something,
+[4406.26 --> 4408.20]  your community will be there for you.
+[4408.20 --> 4417.58]  That's why it's so tragic to see churches get divided over trivial or selfish things like
+[4417.58 --> 4422.10]  foyer furnishings or what songs we sing on Sunday.
+[4423.12 --> 4427.64]  And I'm just going to name it, and people might be mad at this, or masking policies during
+[4427.64 --> 4428.18]  a pandemic.
+[4428.18 --> 4433.50]  We're built together by Christ as his temple.
+[4433.78 --> 4438.86]  We cannot let these little things, these individual things, break us.
+[4438.94 --> 4441.06]  Individual rights, that's I language.
+[4442.28 --> 4445.34]  It should never supersede the communal bond of being the church together.
+[4445.70 --> 4448.34]  We are the church.
+[4449.92 --> 4451.48]  Christ loves the church.
+[4451.48 --> 4454.50]  We must love the church.
+[4454.62 --> 4457.34]  This togetherness language, it continues in verse 9.
+[4458.44 --> 4460.52]  There we read, we are a chosen people.
+[4460.74 --> 4462.38]  We are a royal priesthood.
+[4462.54 --> 4463.80]  We are a holy nation.
+[4463.98 --> 4466.82]  We are God's special possessions.
+[4467.50 --> 4470.20]  We are together.
+[4471.42 --> 4476.50]  We are the church chosen by God to declare the gospel.
+[4476.68 --> 4478.08]  Chosen by God.
+[4478.08 --> 4484.98]  We are God's chosen people together because of what Christ did for us all, right?
+[4486.06 --> 4491.38]  Christ, Jesus Christ, he came to this earth and he lived the life that we should have all
+[4491.38 --> 4491.74]  lived.
+[4492.10 --> 4497.06]  And then he died the death that we all deserved to die in our place.
+[4497.60 --> 4500.52]  He became the sacrifice for us, atoning for our sin.
+[4500.58 --> 4507.20]  And then three days later, he rose again from the dead, declaring that sin and death had no
+[4507.20 --> 4508.44]  hold on him anymore.
+[4509.48 --> 4514.90]  And now because of that gospel truth of Christ's life, his death, and his resurrection, the
+[4514.90 --> 4521.96]  privilege of Jesus' obedience is now applied to the church, to all of us who believe.
+[4521.96 --> 4528.60]  We are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, God's special possessions, so
+[4528.60 --> 4533.90]  that we may declare the praises of him who, again, by his life, death, and resurrection,
+[4533.90 --> 4535.24]  called us out of what?
+[4535.24 --> 4535.74]  Darkness.
+[4537.26 --> 4539.10]  And into his wonderful light.
+[4540.84 --> 4548.00]  This identity of being God's chosen people is highlighted here this morning.
+[4548.46 --> 4553.92]  We baptized April and Dawson and Reuben this morning because they are a part of this promise.
+[4554.98 --> 4561.10]  They have all been chosen by God because, as Galatians 3 says, God's kingdom knows no gender,
+[4561.10 --> 4563.14]  no race, no age.
+[4563.96 --> 4571.18]  Our identity, as Peter says here, is not one we achieve, not one we achieve or accomplish
+[4571.18 --> 4575.64]  ourselves, but our identity is received by God.
+[4577.26 --> 4579.54]  Our identity is that we belong to Jesus.
+[4579.68 --> 4580.80]  We are a chosen people.
+[4581.26 --> 4582.18]  We are the church.
+[4582.28 --> 4583.22]  We are brothers and sisters.
+[4583.36 --> 4586.24]  We are a new creation, as it says in 2 Corinthians.
+[4586.42 --> 4589.44]  We are citizens of heaven, as it says in Philippians 3.
+[4589.44 --> 4592.44]  We are God's children, like it says in 1 John.
+[4592.52 --> 4596.74]  We are heirs of Christ, like it says in Romans.
+[4596.96 --> 4604.10]  Over and over and over again in the Bible, we read about how our identity has been given
+[4604.10 --> 4606.10]  to us by God.
+[4607.72 --> 4610.12]  This is so important right now.
+[4610.34 --> 4615.50]  It's so important in the culture we find ourselves in because in our modern Western culture,
+[4615.50 --> 4619.18]  we obsess about our identities.
+[4620.50 --> 4626.64]  Tim Keller points out some incredible realities on our identities that's being shaped by our
+[4626.64 --> 4629.78]  culture right now, so his voice is going to be entangled in the next five minutes here.
+[4631.96 --> 4634.84]  See, our identities are central to who we are.
+[4635.78 --> 4638.12]  Our identities give us a sense of worth in this world.
+[4638.20 --> 4643.94]  They get to the core of who we are and what makes us valuable in the context we find ourselves
+[4643.94 --> 4645.94]  in.
+[4645.94 --> 4651.56]  The problem is right now, as Christians, it's easy to profess God as our Lord and Savior,
+[4652.56 --> 4655.92]  but also let culture dictate who you are.
+[4656.94 --> 4659.72]  Also let culture dictate what your identity is.
+[4661.34 --> 4666.96]  We can say we're God's chosen people, but culture more often than not will point us in
+[4666.96 --> 4668.68]  an entirely different direction.
+[4668.68 --> 4675.90]  Historically, traditionally, people used to get their identities from their communities.
+[4676.36 --> 4679.86]  So traditionally, people's identities were rooted in the communities that they lived.
+[4679.92 --> 4682.60]  You were someone's son or someone's daughter.
+[4682.74 --> 4685.26]  You were someone's father or someone's mother.
+[4685.38 --> 4691.04]  You were known as part of a fabric of a town or a village, and you were known in that town
+[4691.04 --> 4694.02]  by the family you were a part of and the company that you kept.
+[4694.10 --> 4694.92]  That was your identity.
+[4694.92 --> 4696.68]  It was a communal identity.
+[4697.94 --> 4699.86]  In our culture, this is drastically different.
+[4701.06 --> 4705.76]  You've been told to look inside yourself to find out who you are.
+[4706.68 --> 4713.16]  You have to look deep within your soul, and there you will find your dreams and your passions.
+[4713.52 --> 4715.86]  You'll find your feelings, your intuitions.
+[4716.62 --> 4718.12]  And then what are you to do with those?
+[4719.78 --> 4720.72]  Express them.
+[4721.74 --> 4722.80]  That's who you are.
+[4722.80 --> 4725.00]  Don't let anyone else define you.
+[4727.18 --> 4728.02]  Find yourself.
+[4728.14 --> 4730.60]  And if you look deep enough, you can discover who you are.
+[4731.58 --> 4734.64]  If you can't, go on a trip and go find yourself.
+[4736.98 --> 4737.80]  Discover yourself.
+[4737.94 --> 4742.60]  Only you can define you, and far be it for anyone else to tell you who you are.
+[4743.84 --> 4745.24]  You can push this further, too.
+[4745.34 --> 4746.52]  Tim Keller uses this language.
+[4746.52 --> 4749.90]  He uses the language of a heroic narrative.
+[4750.64 --> 4755.16]  So again, traditionally, the heroic narrative, the story that made you a hero in traditional
+[4755.16 --> 4757.16]  cultures, was to deny yourself.
+[4757.80 --> 4762.30]  Was to actually deny yourself for the benefit and the purposes of your family and your community.
+[4762.30 --> 4767.58]  If you were to give yourself up for your family or your neighbors, that was honorable.
+[4769.02 --> 4773.42]  The heroic narrative of all culture is not self-denial, though.
+[4773.84 --> 4774.60]  It's the opposite.
+[4775.08 --> 4778.94]  Our heroic narrative in our Western culture is self-declaration.
+[4778.94 --> 4786.22]  People are now praised when they come out and stand up and declare themselves as something
+[4786.22 --> 4786.98]  or someone.
+[4787.76 --> 4795.12]  And they're especially praised if they do this at the expense of oppression or the oppressors,
+[4795.46 --> 4799.80]  which often takes the form of family or society or community.
+[4799.80 --> 4805.48]  In our culture, to think that someone else could name who you are, that someone else could help
+[4805.48 --> 4810.16]  shape you, someone else could form your identity, is villainous, actually.
+[4811.14 --> 4815.70]  But if you can discover yourself, if you can look inside your soul and discover yourself,
+[4815.78 --> 4821.50]  despite the tyranny of your family or society holding you down, that is praised right now
+[4821.50 --> 4822.06]  in our world.
+[4822.70 --> 4826.44]  And then once you discover who you are, you get to go on TikTok or on Instagram or some
+[4826.44 --> 4829.10]  other social media platform and announce it to the world.
+[4829.80 --> 4835.00]  What your newfound identity is, and you get to receive a flood of likes by a community
+[4835.00 --> 4838.60]  that probably doesn't even know you, which ironically affirms the decision that you've
+[4838.60 --> 4840.12]  made because community matters.
+[4842.38 --> 4852.32]  The problem is, trying to find your identity within yourself, it's not healthy, and it goes
+[4852.32 --> 4854.54]  against what God's calling on your life is.
+[4854.88 --> 4856.86]  Now, there's a bunch of reasons why, but we'll list two.
+[4856.86 --> 4865.16]  Firstly, looking within myself to my own passions, my own feelings, my own intuitions, to find
+[4865.16 --> 4867.12]  an identity is unstable.
+[4869.06 --> 4876.52]  My, Kevin's, me, my feelings, my passions, my intuitions have changed with the seasons,
+[4876.66 --> 4878.52]  it seems, as I grow older.
+[4878.52 --> 4880.94]  Yours all do, too.
+[4882.22 --> 4886.14]  20-year-olds out there, if you're 20 years old, how many of you can look back at yourself
+[4886.14 --> 4888.36]  at the age of 15 and be like, yeah, I had it all together.
+[4888.96 --> 4889.64]  I knew life.
+[4889.70 --> 4891.28]  I wasn't doing anything dumb at 15.
+[4891.52 --> 4892.72]  I dare you to raise your hand.
+[4893.76 --> 4895.52]  30-year-olds, look back at when you were 20.
+[4895.60 --> 4896.44]  Do you say the same thing?
+[4896.66 --> 4899.50]  You look back at yourself at 20 and be like, no, I had it sorted back then.
+[4900.06 --> 4900.64]  I had life.
+[4900.64 --> 4900.94]  No.
+[4902.08 --> 4907.76]  50-year-olds, have your feelings, your convictions, your personal views, have they stayed completely
+[4907.76 --> 4909.38]  constant over the last 20 years?
+[4910.82 --> 4911.72]  No, of course not.
+[4912.24 --> 4915.64]  I'm not even going to ask the 60 to 100-year-olds in the crowd here today because they're going
+[4915.64 --> 4916.30]  to roll their eyes at me.
+[4917.04 --> 4918.70]  No, of course not.
+[4918.70 --> 4924.28]  Our convictions, our opinions, our feelings, our passions, they change as our lives evolve.
+[4925.18 --> 4926.20]  This happens to all of us.
+[4926.26 --> 4927.38]  We discover new things.
+[4927.82 --> 4931.82]  What once brought joy now brings pain and vice versa.
+[4932.94 --> 4936.20]  Love we once knew may now be gone.
+[4936.48 --> 4941.08]  And things we never knew before now may be the most important things in our lives.
+[4941.14 --> 4941.92]  That's life.
+[4943.42 --> 4946.56]  Ask any of the parents who just baptized their baby this morning.
+[4948.70 --> 4950.16]  Life changes.
+[4951.44 --> 4959.14]  Looking inward to your feelings and passions and intuitions to form your identity is fickle
+[4959.14 --> 4959.84]  at best.
+[4961.26 --> 4962.26]  God created us.
+[4962.40 --> 4965.02]  God created life way too complex for that.
+[4967.00 --> 4974.60]  Secondly, an identity that's achieved rather than received is exclusive by nature.
+[4974.60 --> 4981.08]  We can't base our identities on the things that we accomplish because that either elevates
+[4981.08 --> 4982.26]  or deflates us.
+[4982.82 --> 4983.42]  Think about it.
+[4983.44 --> 4986.72]  Maybe you're the best soccer player in your school growing up.
+[4987.18 --> 4988.20]  You play often.
+[4988.32 --> 4989.34]  You realize, hey, I'm good.
+[4989.56 --> 4990.34]  I love soccer.
+[4990.38 --> 4991.06]  I'm a soccer player.
+[4991.48 --> 4992.06]  I'm the best.
+[4992.80 --> 4995.24]  Then you graduate high school and you go to university and uh-oh.
+[4996.38 --> 4997.52]  You're not the best anymore.
+[4998.28 --> 4999.62]  You actually, you barely made the team.
+[4999.62 --> 5002.82]  That Christmas comes and you go down to Mexico.
+[5002.94 --> 5003.44]  You need a break.
+[5003.50 --> 5004.14]  You're on a vacation.
+[5004.32 --> 5005.34]  You walk into a little town.
+[5005.92 --> 5008.16]  You realize, oh no, there's 10-year-olds playing soccer here.
+[5008.90 --> 5009.94]  They're better than me.
+[5011.78 --> 5017.54]  Your identity as a soccer player is based purely on your skill level compared to everyone
+[5017.54 --> 5018.34]  else around you.
+[5019.26 --> 5024.20]  Your confidence in your identity now starts waning every time you see someone better than
+[5024.20 --> 5024.38]  you.
+[5025.84 --> 5028.10]  That's what achieving your own identity does.
+[5028.10 --> 5030.24]  It pits you against the rest of humanity.
+[5030.68 --> 5033.30]  You feel better so long as you're trashing other people.
+[5034.04 --> 5040.12]  As long as people aren't as skilled or enlightened or hardworking or insightful, you feel pretty
+[5040.12 --> 5040.44]  good.
+[5042.68 --> 5048.72]  But when others come around who are better or more insightful or they work harder or they're
+[5048.72 --> 5053.84]  more enlightened, seemingly, that's the pressing that deflates you.
+[5053.84 --> 5059.10]  Finding our identities within ourself is fickle.
+[5059.36 --> 5062.76]  Trying to achieve our own identities is exclusive to everyone else.
+[5064.80 --> 5067.88]  But rather than doing either, we need to look to Christ as our example.
+[5068.52 --> 5070.20]  Philippians 2, verse 7, it says this.
+[5070.26 --> 5071.56]  Get this from the King James Version.
+[5071.56 --> 5076.92]  He says, Jesus came down and made himself of no reputation.
+[5078.12 --> 5081.02]  Made himself of no reputation.
+[5081.72 --> 5085.04]  He became a servant and he humbled himself.
+[5086.24 --> 5090.36]  And obeyed God right up until death on a cross.
+[5090.36 --> 5097.50]  We look inwards and try to build ourselves up that way, build our identities that way.
+[5097.54 --> 5099.10]  We try to grow our reputation.
+[5099.58 --> 5101.72]  And Jesus came to the earth and did the exact opposite.
+[5102.36 --> 5103.16]  He looked outwards.
+[5104.76 --> 5109.68]  He saw what we were mired in and he came down and he made himself of no reputation to save
+[5109.68 --> 5110.02]  us.
+[5111.50 --> 5112.90]  And he knew he was chosen.
+[5112.90 --> 5117.94]  Peter is saying in our text today that you know who you are.
+[5118.74 --> 5123.36]  You don't need to dig deep within yourself or build your identities by comparing yourself
+[5123.36 --> 5124.40]  to the world around you.
+[5125.18 --> 5128.80]  You are a chosen people, a holy nation.
+[5128.96 --> 5132.14]  Our identities are achieved, are not achieved, sorry.
+[5132.62 --> 5133.58]  They are received.
+[5134.70 --> 5135.14]  Hallelujah.
+[5137.72 --> 5141.72]  We are a God who says we are a chosen, holy, and we are precious.
+[5143.30 --> 5146.42]  This truth needs to permeate our hearts regularly.
+[5146.54 --> 5148.82]  That's why we're called to pray regularly.
+[5148.94 --> 5150.70]  That's why we're called to read the word.
+[5150.82 --> 5152.04]  That's why we're called to fast.
+[5152.34 --> 5156.28]  That's why we're called to come together and gather as a community because we need to
+[5156.28 --> 5159.36]  be constantly reminded that our identity is in Christ.
+[5159.68 --> 5160.82]  We belong to him.
+[5163.74 --> 5164.92]  And we are called to go.
+[5166.54 --> 5171.84]  We are the church chosen by God to declare the gospel.
+[5171.84 --> 5174.92]  Notice what our text says here.
+[5175.70 --> 5180.06]  It says, we are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, God's special possession that
+[5180.06 --> 5180.78]  we may, what?
+[5182.36 --> 5187.28]  Declare the praises of him who called you out of darkness into his wonderful light.
+[5188.06 --> 5189.76]  And this is the final point, so stay with me here.
+[5189.76 --> 5194.64]  So often we use this terminology of sharing the gospel.
+[5194.90 --> 5195.92]  Go share the gospel.
+[5196.96 --> 5199.50]  I've come to learn that this language actually is a bit of a problem.
+[5200.42 --> 5204.50]  Sharing implies that there is a willing recipient.
+[5204.50 --> 5208.90]  So if I tell my kids to share their toys, it's because one kid feels left out.
+[5209.30 --> 5213.70]  If I'm sharing my money with someone who is in need, they're willing to receive it because
+[5213.70 --> 5214.30]  they're in need.
+[5215.46 --> 5220.60]  If we are sharing stories, people are willing to hear it because they're listening.
+[5221.98 --> 5228.66]  The act of sharing implies that the person we are sharing it with is willing to receive
+[5228.66 --> 5230.02]  it, to accept it.
+[5230.02 --> 5234.28]  And I think that's how we approach our mission here on this earth.
+[5234.38 --> 5239.00]  We won't share the gospel with someone unless we know they're willing to receive it.
+[5240.32 --> 5244.60]  We don't want to push people too hard, and we definitely don't want to feel uncomfortable
+[5244.60 --> 5250.04]  ourselves, so only share with people who want to hear it.
+[5250.78 --> 5254.36]  Or we default to hoping that our actions will just do the job for us and we don't have to
+[5254.36 --> 5255.18]  open our mouths at all.
+[5255.18 --> 5262.24]  Unfortunately, that means that we miss opportunities to declare his praises, like our text says today.
+[5262.76 --> 5267.18]  We wait for these moments where the one who needs to hear this news is good and ready to
+[5267.18 --> 5267.84]  hear this news.
+[5268.50 --> 5270.58]  And that moment might never come.
+[5272.84 --> 5275.34]  Brothers and sisters, we are not called to share the gospel.
+[5276.82 --> 5279.64]  We're called to declare the gospel.
+[5279.64 --> 5282.94]  The receptivity?
+[5283.94 --> 5284.34]  Receptivity.
+[5284.90 --> 5285.48]  That's the word.
+[5285.62 --> 5290.10]  The receptivity of our audience does not play into this equation.
+[5291.42 --> 5295.60]  Now, obviously, I'm not saying that we should all go by bullhorns and stand on the corner
+[5295.60 --> 5301.38]  of the street and shout into these things and sin-shame strangers into turning to God lest
+[5301.38 --> 5302.92]  they burn in a pit of hell forever.
+[5302.92 --> 5303.42]  No.
+[5305.26 --> 5312.20]  What I'm saying is, we all have someone we can think of right now.
+[5313.42 --> 5316.94]  Someone who needs to hear this news.
+[5317.10 --> 5323.10]  Someone who needs to hear that Jesus lived and died and rose again for them.
+[5324.38 --> 5329.58]  And that their identities are secured in him because of that truth.
+[5329.58 --> 5336.16]  Jesus, you're all thinking of someone right now who needs to hear that Jesus loves them.
+[5337.38 --> 5340.08]  That Jesus loves them so much that he died for them.
+[5341.94 --> 5348.20]  You're all thinking of someone right now, and you might be waiting to share this news with
+[5348.20 --> 5350.54]  them until they're ready to hear it.
+[5350.54 --> 5362.18]  But what Peter is saying here is that waiting for them to be more receptive is not for you to worry about.
+[5364.14 --> 5370.40]  You are called to declare God's praises no matter the audience.
+[5370.40 --> 5376.98]  And so, I have a challenge for you today.
+[5377.74 --> 5383.10]  Actually, God has a calling for you, is a better way to say it.
+[5384.30 --> 5391.74]  Whoever was on your heart before, whoever it is that you know needs to hear God's love,
+[5392.58 --> 5396.70]  whoever needs to hear about Jesus' life and death and resurrection,
+[5396.70 --> 5401.06]  whoever needs to hear of your story of God's faithfulness in your life,
+[5401.82 --> 5406.44]  your calling this week is to go and declare it to them.
+[5408.34 --> 5411.98]  So we collectively, as a church, this week, we are going to go out and have at least
+[5411.98 --> 5416.24]  2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 15, 20, 40, 250,
+[5416.64 --> 5420.26]  180 online, 250 conversations this week.
+[5421.00 --> 5422.70]  That is what we as a church are going to do.
+[5422.70 --> 5428.76]  Maybe it's a sibling or a cousin or a son or a daughter or a parent
+[5428.76 --> 5430.90]  or a parent on your kid's soccer team
+[5430.90 --> 5433.98]  or a colleague you know at work that you see every day.
+[5436.56 --> 5438.52]  Right now, this text is calling you
+[5438.52 --> 5441.08]  to go and declare God's praises to them.
+[5444.04 --> 5446.28]  And so we're going to go have those conversations this week.
+[5447.02 --> 5448.70]  No matter how old you are here today,
+[5448.78 --> 5449.88]  no matter your comfort zone,
+[5450.24 --> 5452.28]  no matter if you like being challenged at church or not,
+[5452.70 --> 5457.74]  we're going to go and declare God's praises.
+[5459.00 --> 5460.96]  And Pastor Chris and I are going to follow up this week.
+[5462.30 --> 5463.44]  You're looking for it later,
+[5464.02 --> 5465.70]  but we're going to reach out to all of you
+[5465.70 --> 5466.68]  and we're going to hold you to this.
+[5467.24 --> 5468.86]  We want to hear these stories,
+[5469.16 --> 5471.52]  not just to like check off a box,
+[5471.88 --> 5473.82]  but because it's important to hear these stories
+[5473.82 --> 5475.38]  so that we can share them with each other
+[5475.38 --> 5477.82]  and spur each other on to keep doing this.
+[5478.62 --> 5480.42]  We want to lift each other up.
+[5480.42 --> 5483.78]  No matter how well these conversations go
+[5483.78 --> 5485.24]  or how poorly they go in your eyes,
+[5485.78 --> 5488.32]  we want to encourage each other
+[5488.32 --> 5489.84]  and lift each other up with these stories.
+[5489.94 --> 5492.62]  We are the church chosen by God
+[5492.62 --> 5496.46]  to declare the gospel together.
+[5496.46 --> 5499.12]  And so,
+[5499.60 --> 5504.90]  declare God's name to whomever was on your heart this week.
+[5506.90 --> 5508.02]  We are the church.
+[5508.78 --> 5509.06]  Check.
+[5510.62 --> 5511.82]  Chosen by God.
+[5512.40 --> 5513.10]  Identity, right.
+[5513.74 --> 5514.08]  Check.
+[5514.92 --> 5518.42]  To declare the gospel of Jesus Christ.
+[5518.42 --> 5518.50]  Christ.
+[5519.94 --> 5521.48]  That's the to-do this week.
+[5522.32 --> 5523.36]  It's only one item long,
+[5523.72 --> 5525.54]  but as our mission statement says,
+[5525.74 --> 5526.30]  we've gathered,
+[5527.24 --> 5528.14]  hopefully we've grown,
+[5529.04 --> 5530.02]  but now we must go.
+[5531.04 --> 5532.50]  With God as our cornerstone,
+[5532.60 --> 5534.68]  let us declare his name.
+[5534.82 --> 5535.00]  Amen?
+[5536.00 --> 5536.68]  Let me pray.
+[5536.68 --> 5540.80]  Father in heaven,
+[5541.00 --> 5542.06]  we are the church,
+[5542.24 --> 5543.56]  your chosen people.
+[5543.92 --> 5544.90]  God, we are grateful
+[5544.90 --> 5546.74]  that you have built us up.
+[5546.80 --> 5548.62]  We are grateful that you have lived
+[5548.62 --> 5550.94]  a life that we all should have lived
+[5550.94 --> 5552.64]  and yet died in our place
+[5552.64 --> 5554.28]  to forgive us from sin.
+[5554.36 --> 5555.50]  We thank you for the cross,
+[5555.76 --> 5556.76]  for the empty tomb,
+[5557.04 --> 5558.22]  that you have been lifted up
+[5558.22 --> 5560.40]  to sit at the right hand of God.
+[5560.84 --> 5561.08]  And Lord,
+[5561.20 --> 5562.48]  in that story,
+[5562.62 --> 5563.36]  in that truth,
+[5563.36 --> 5565.40]  you have also built us up
+[5565.40 --> 5567.12]  and saved us.
+[5568.66 --> 5569.18]  And so God,
+[5569.22 --> 5570.12]  as your church
+[5570.12 --> 5572.24]  that you have chosen,
+[5573.14 --> 5573.38]  God,
+[5573.42 --> 5574.40]  we pray that this week
+[5574.40 --> 5575.50]  you will give us the courage,
+[5575.88 --> 5576.50]  the encouragement,
+[5576.64 --> 5577.30]  the conviction,
+[5578.30 --> 5579.54]  the willingness
+[5579.54 --> 5582.52]  to go and declare your praises.
+[5583.52 --> 5584.02]  God,
+[5584.08 --> 5585.34]  may your name be heard
+[5585.34 --> 5586.86]  throughout our community this week.
+[5587.86 --> 5589.66]  And we pray for your Holy Spirit
+[5589.66 --> 5591.06]  to guide our hearts
+[5591.06 --> 5591.90]  and our words
+[5591.90 --> 5592.74]  and more importantly,
+[5592.74 --> 5594.18]  stir in the hearts
+[5594.18 --> 5594.80]  of the people
+[5594.80 --> 5595.82]  whom we are speaking to.
+[5599.68 --> 5600.24]  And God,
+[5600.30 --> 5601.68]  may you transform people this week.
+[5603.62 --> 5604.70]  We pray this in your name.
+[5605.02 --> 5605.20]  Amen.
+[5605.20 --> 5605.30]  Amen.
+[5619.18 --> 5620.18]  Please join us.
+[5622.74 --> 5635.96]  My hope is built
+[5635.96 --> 5639.42]  on nothing less
+[5639.42 --> 5642.68]  than Jesus' blood
+[5642.68 --> 5644.64]  and righteousness.
+[5644.64 --> 5649.08]  I dare not trust
+[5649.08 --> 5651.08]  the sweetest frame
+[5651.08 --> 5657.02]  but only trust
+[5657.02 --> 5660.46]  in Jesus' name.
+[5660.46 --> 5661.46]  trust in Jesus' name.
+[5661.46 --> 5668.90]  I dare not trust
+[5668.90 --> 5672.84]  the sweetest frame
+[5672.84 --> 5676.84]  but only trust in Jesus' name.
+[5676.84 --> 5677.84]  trust in Jesus' name.
+[5677.84 --> 5682.28]  I dare not trust
+[5682.28 --> 5685.22]  the sweetest frame
+[5685.22 --> 5689.10]  but only trust
+[5689.10 --> 5691.28]  in Jesus' name.
+[5691.28 --> 5697.28]  Christ alone,
+[5697.28 --> 5701.28]  cornerstone,
+[5701.28 --> 5702.28]  Lord of all.
+[5702.28 --> 5703.28]  He is Lord,
+[5703.28 --> 5705.66]  Lord of all.
+[5705.66 --> 5709.10]  In the Savior's love
+[5709.10 --> 5712.20]  through the storm.
+[5712.20 --> 5715.92]  He is Lord,
+[5715.92 --> 5720.80]  Lord of all.
+[5720.80 --> 5721.80]  Lord of all.
+[5721.80 --> 5722.80]  Lord of all.
+[5722.80 --> 5723.80]  Lord of all.
+[5723.80 --> 5724.80]  Lord of all.
+[5724.80 --> 5725.80]  Lord of all.
+[5725.80 --> 5727.80]  When darkness seems
+[5727.80 --> 5731.24]  to hide His face,
+[5731.24 --> 5738.30]  I rest on His unchanging grace.
+[5738.30 --> 5745.30]  In every high and stormy gale,
+[5745.30 --> 5751.30]  My anchor holds within the veil.
+[5751.30 --> 5758.30]  My anchor holds within the veil.
+[5758.30 --> 5764.30]  Christ alone,
+[5764.30 --> 5767.30]  cornerstone,
+[5767.30 --> 5770.30]  Weak made strong
+[5770.30 --> 5775.30]  In the Savior's love
+[5775.30 --> 5778.30]  Through the storm.
+[5778.30 --> 5781.30]  He is Lord,
+[5781.30 --> 5785.30]  Lord of all.
+[5785.30 --> 5786.30]  He is Lord,
+[5786.30 --> 5787.30]  Lord of all.
+[5787.30 --> 5800.30]  He shall come
+[5800.30 --> 5804.30]  With trumpet sound,
+[5804.30 --> 5808.30]  O may I then
+[5808.30 --> 5810.30]  In Him be found,
+[5810.30 --> 5817.30]  In His righteousness alone.
+[5817.30 --> 5823.30]  All they stand before the throne.
+[5823.30 --> 5825.30]  Christ alone,
+[5825.30 --> 5827.30]  Cornerstone,
+[5827.30 --> 5830.30]  Weak made strong
+[5830.30 --> 5843.30]  In the Savior's love
+[5843.30 --> 5847.30]  Through the storm.
+[5847.30 --> 5850.30]  He is Lord,
+[5850.30 --> 5855.30]  Lord of all.
+[5855.30 --> 5857.30]  Lord of all.
+[5857.30 --> 5860.30]  Christ alone,
+[5860.30 --> 5861.30]  Cornerstone,
+[5861.30 --> 5865.30]  Weak made strong
+[5865.30 --> 5868.30]  In the Savior's love
+[5868.30 --> 5871.30]  In the Savior's love
+[5871.30 --> 5873.30]  Through the storm.
+[5873.30 --> 5878.30]  He is Lord,
+[5878.30 --> 5880.30]  Lord of all.
+[5880.30 --> 5881.30]  Lord of all.
+[5881.30 --> 5885.30]  Lord of all.
+[5885.30 --> 5889.30]  In the Savior's love
+[5889.30 --> 5890.30]  And so,
+[5892.30 --> 5894.30]  As we go out today,
+[5894.30 --> 5895.30]  2-50 to my left,
+[5895.30 --> 5897.30]  and 1-1 or 2-1 or 2-1.
+[5898.30 --> 5899.30]  Nope. Yeah, there we are.
+[5899.30 --> 5900.30]  I'm gonna hold this.
+[5900.30 --> 5902.30]  As we go out into this week,
+[5902.30 --> 5905.30]  into the lives that God has placed you,
+[5905.30 --> 5906.30]  into the communities that He has placed you,
+[5906.30 --> 5908.30]  and to go declare His praises,
+[5908.30 --> 5912.30]  please go with God's parting blessing.
+[5912.30 --> 5915.38]  the Lord bless you and keep you.
+[5915.98 --> 5918.54]  The Lord make his face shine upon you
+[5918.54 --> 5920.28]  and be gracious to you.
+[5920.94 --> 5923.60]  The Lord turn his face toward you
+[5923.60 --> 5926.20]  and give you his peace.
+[5927.20 --> 5929.72]  And all of God's chosen people said,
+[5929.72 --> 5931.00]  Amen.
+[5931.00 --> 5943.98]  Should nothing of our efforts stand,
+[5943.98 --> 5948.78]  no legacy survive.
+[5950.94 --> 5957.80]  Unless the Lord does raise the house,
+[5957.80 --> 5964.30]  in vain its builders strive.
+[5965.12 --> 5971.46]  To you who boast tomorrow's gain,
+[5971.84 --> 5977.88]  tell me what is your life?
+[5977.88 --> 5985.08]  A mist that vanishes at dawn,
+[5985.08 --> 5991.66]  all glory be to Christ.
+[5991.66 --> 5999.06]  All glory be to Christ our King,
+[5999.06 --> 6005.80]  all glory be to Christ.
+[6005.80 --> 6013.06]  His rule and reign will ever sing,
+[6013.06 --> 6019.82]  all glory be to Christ.
+[6019.82 --> 6027.08]  His will be done,
+[6027.08 --> 6030.34]  His kingdom come,
+[6030.34 --> 6035.72]  on earth as is above.
+[6037.02 --> 6043.92]  Who is himself our daily bread?
+[6043.92 --> 6050.50]  Praise him, the Lord of love.
+[6050.50 --> 6057.50]  Let living water satisfy
+[6057.50 --> 6063.82]  the thirsty without price.
+[6063.82 --> 6070.76]  will take a cup of kindness yet,
+[6070.76 --> 6077.14]  all glory be to Christ.
+[6077.14 --> 6084.10]  All glory be to Christ our King,
+[6084.34 --> 6090.40]  all glory be to Christ.
+[6090.40 --> 6097.16]  His rule and reign will ever sing,
+[6097.16 --> 6103.72]  all glory be to Christ.
+[6103.72 --> 6113.70]  When on that day the great I am,
+[6113.70 --> 6118.70]  the faithful and the true.
+[6118.70 --> 6125.70]  The Lamb who was for sinners slain,
+[6125.70 --> 6132.18]  His making all things new.
+[6132.18 --> 6138.94]  Behold, our God shall live with us,
+[6138.94 --> 6144.84]  and be our steadfast light.
+[6144.84 --> 6151.38]  And we shall bear His people be,
+[6151.38 --> 6158.38]  all glory be to Christ.
+[6158.38 --> 6164.58]  All glory be to Christ our King,
+[6164.58 --> 6171.02]  all glory be to Christ.
+[6171.02 --> 6178.02]  His rule and reign will ever sing,
+[6178.02 --> 6186.02]  all glory be to Christ.
+[6186.02 --> 6196.82]  wholesaney work of hearing we be.
+[6196.82 --> 6226.80]  Thank you.
+[6226.82 --> 6256.80]  Thank you.
+[6256.82 --> 6258.82]  Thank you.

Exiles in a Pagan Land - Living Examples October 24, 2021_summary.txt

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+• Feeling God's presence throughout the day
+• Struggling with sin and mistakes
+• Seeking peace and rest in God's mercy
+• Understanding how far God's forgiveness goes (the east from the west)
+• Rejection of self and embracing God's truth and love
+• Calling out to God for help and guidance
+• Acknowledging God's relentless pursuit and fierce love
+• Worship song with lyrics about rejoicing and praising God
+• Announcements from church leaders
+	+ Children's choir for Christmas program
+	+ Night Shift Ministries dinner service volunteering opportunity
+	+ Big Brother, Big Sister Christmas Hamper program
+	+ 2020 spiritual disciplines event for youth
+	+ Bible study in November for young adults
+• Worship service opening with a greeting from God
+• Reading of Psalm 96:1-9, exalting God above all gods
+• Call to come and meet Jesus at the river of life
+• Invitation to surrender cares and meet God in the river
+• Discussion of Night Shift ministries serving the homeless
+• Scripture reading from Matthew 25:35-40 about serving others
+• Announcement of next week's special offering for Langley Emanuel budget
+• The speaker recites and praises Jesus as the Messiah, Lord of all, and Blessed Redeemer.
+• Kids Corner segment begins where the speaker thanks kids for creating memory verse videos last year and introduces a new memory verse from 1 Peter 4:8.
+• The memory verse is practiced together, and the kids are encouraged to remember it for the week.
+• The speaker explains the meaning of the word "multitude" and discusses how loving each other deeply can help forgive sins.
+• Discussion about a person's identity
+• Prayers and blessings for the congregation
+• Announcements: chair of council, administrative changes, upcoming congregational meeting, budget review
+• Congregational prayer led by Elder Ken
+• Prayer requests for specific individuals and groups, including health issues, COVID-19, mental health, and those in need.
+• Prayer for patience, peace, and wisdom
+• Church responsibilities and serving others
+• Importance of community outreach and service
+• Request to be a light to the community
+• Reading from 1 Peter 2:11
+• Discussion on engaging with preaching through Bible reading
+• Personal anecdote about prioritizing church attendance over sports team practice
+• What does it mean for Christians to be "weird" or different from the world?
+• Being loved by God changes one's relationship with the world and relationships within the world
+• As believers, we are foreigners and exiles in a world that doesn't know God
+• Our life should reflect our love for what God loves and how He loves
+• The time will come to be bold about being different from the world
+• To be a Christian is to be uniquely defined by our relationship with God
+• The importance of standing against cultural idolatry and being aware of one's identity as a Christian in the world.
+• Recognizing that Christians are at war, specifically with sinful desires, and not just against external enemies or ideologies.
+• Understanding that the war is first internal, with individuals struggling to overcome their own sin, before it manifests externally in the world.
+• The contrast between past cultural contexts (e.g. Christian culture, Protestant/Catholic divide) and present-day context of a post-Christian, liberal society.
+• Recognizing complacency or cynicism towards one's own sin, rather than actively fighting against it.
+• Identity and soul
+• Living a good life among non-believers (pagans)
+• Changing one's behavior to align with Christian values
+• Engaging with society of diverse worldviews and identities
+• Being in the world, not hiding or running from it
+• Model of living among pagans presented by Peter and Jeremiah
+• Reminders of stories from the Bible, including Daniel and Esther
+• Mention of Jeremiah's letter to exiles in Babylon recorded in Jeremiah 29
+• God's instructions to build houses, settle down, and seek prosperity
+• Instructions to increase in number, find joy and fulfillment in work
+• Living as beloved foreigners and exiles, seeking the well-being of the city
+• Applying these principles to living among pagans and being a Christian in a non-Christian culture
+• Persecution and hatred towards Christians is normal throughout history
+• Christians are seen as abnormal for their sacrificial love of strangers and aliens, and their rejection of power and social norms
+• A Roman historian, Tacitus, wrote about the early Christian church in a negative light, calling them "abominations" who upset the social order by changing traditional views on sex and gender
+• Christians were also accused of practicing cannibalism due to their observance of the Lord's Supper
+• The idea of eating Jesus' flesh and drinking his blood is considered unusual or abnormal by many people
+• Early Christians were also seen as atheists for refusing to acknowledge the Roman pantheon of gods and worship the emperor
+• Infant exposure in ancient Roman society
+• Christians' opposition to the practice and their efforts to rescue infants
+• Comparison between infant exposure and abortion as cultural practices
+• The story of the shepherd of Hermes who was allegedly rescued from a garbage heap and became a Christian leader
+• Christians accused of ruining society and the normal system
+• Allegations that Christianity is a threat to traditional values and social order
+• God as a tool for human prosperity
+• Church as a community for achieving status and ease
+• Living a good life among non-believers without compromising faith
+• Abstaining from sinful desires and enduring hardship for the glory of God
+• Knowing God and living for His glory is the greatest purpose and reason
+• Traditional markers of success and power are secondary to knowing God
+• The example of Christ in suffering and not retaliating, entrusting Himself to God's judgment
+• The gospel truth is to see Jesus and understand that he lived the life we should have lived, died the death we deserve, and took our sin on himself.
+• Christians are called to reflect this gospel truth in their relationships with others.
+• Three key relationships mentioned where Christians can reflect the gospel truth: civic relationship (submitting to human authority), family of believers, and God's sovereignty.
+• The passage in question refers to slavery, but it's not the same as chattel slavery
+• Slavery in ancient Rome was a part of the ordinary economic life of the empire and people would sell themselves into slavery for various reasons
+• The speaker draws parallels between the Roman concept of slavery and one's vocational life and relationship with their employer or boss
+• Married life is also held up as an example, particularly for women submitting to their husbands in such a way that even unbelieving husbands might be won over by their behavior
+• Being a living example of faith in one's civic, economic, and communal life
+• Embracing the "weirdness" that comes with following Jesus and being part of a community of believers
+• The importance of being captivated by God's glory and the gospel to live out one's faith authentically
+• Seeking to serve God and be living examples through good deeds, even in the face of criticism or accusations from others
+• Request to take someone's love and devotion
+• Praise and worship of God, asking for his blessing and guidance
+• Reminders not to be afraid, but to go in peace as examples of living faith
+• Reflections on biblical figures (Elijah, Moses, Ezekiel) and their relevance today
+• Call to serve the Lord and bring salvation through declaration of His word
+• Repeated phrases and songs about salvation coming
+• Jehovah is not mentioned as a God
+• The second part of the transcript repeats phrases about salvation, similar to the first part
+• The speaker thanks someone multiple times at the end of the transcript

Exiles in a Pagan Land - Living Examples October 24, 2021_transcript.txt

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+[0.00 --> 9.58]  I'm now in place
+[9.58 --> 13.06]  From when I rise up in the morning
+[13.06 --> 16.00]  Till I leave my head to rest
+[16.54 --> 19.00]  I feel you near me
+[19.62 --> 23.94]  You see me when I'm weary
+[23.94 --> 29.98]  Oh Lord, for all the worst and all the best
+[30.00 --> 37.96]  Oh Lord, for all the worst and all the best
+[38.80 --> 38.98]  Me
+[38.98 --> 47.86]  Oh, yeah
+[68.98 --> 90.96]  Here I am, Lord, and I'm drowning in your sea of forgetfulness.
+[90.96 --> 95.08]  The chains of yesterday surround me.
+[95.64 --> 97.86]  I yearn for peace and rest.
+[97.86 --> 101.66]  I don't want to end up where you found me
+[101.66 --> 104.58]  And it echoes in my mind
+[104.58 --> 107.90]  It keeps me awake tonight
+[107.90 --> 114.44]  I know you've cast my sin as far
+[114.44 --> 117.62]  The east is from the west
+[117.62 --> 121.02]  And I stand before you now
+[121.02 --> 124.24]  As though I've never sinned
+[124.24 --> 128.76]  But today I feel like I'm just one mistake away
+[128.76 --> 132.44]  From you leaving me this way
+[132.44 --> 138.10]  Jesus, can you show me just how far
+[138.10 --> 140.78]  The east is from the west
+[140.78 --> 146.30]  Cause I can't bear to see the man I've been
+[146.30 --> 149.72]  Rising up in me again
+[149.72 --> 154.02]  In the arms of your mercy I find red
+[154.02 --> 158.54]  Cause you know just how far the east is
+[158.54 --> 160.12]  From the west is from the west
+[160.12 --> 163.06]  One scarred hand to the other
+[163.06 --> 180.04]  I start the day the war begins
+[180.04 --> 183.22]  Endless reminding of my sin
+[183.22 --> 184.80]  Time and time again
+[184.80 --> 185.54]  Time and time again
+[185.54 --> 187.86]  Your truth is drowned out
+[187.86 --> 189.80]  By the storm I'm in
+[189.80 --> 194.60]  Today I feel like I'm just one mistake away
+[194.60 --> 198.22]  From you leaving me this way
+[198.22 --> 201.74]  Jesus, can you show me
+[201.74 --> 206.26]  Just how far the east is
+[206.26 --> 207.26]  Just how far the east is
+[207.26 --> 208.32]  From the west
+[208.32 --> 212.06]  Cause I can't bear to see the man I've been
+[212.06 --> 215.38]  Come rising up in me again
+[215.38 --> 220.26]  In the arms of your mercy I find red
+[220.26 --> 224.78]  Cause you know just how far the east is
+[224.78 --> 225.78]  From the west
+[225.78 --> 228.78]  One scarred hand to the other
+[228.78 --> 232.78]  I know you've washed me white
+[232.78 --> 236.22]  Turned my darkness into light
+[236.22 --> 239.74]  I need your peace to get me through
+[239.74 --> 242.74]  Get me through this night
+[242.74 --> 245.86]  I can't live by what I feel
+[245.86 --> 248.74]  But by the truth your word reveals
+[248.74 --> 252.32]  I'm not holding on to you
+[252.32 --> 256.20]  But you're holding on to me
+[256.20 --> 263.96]  You're holding on to me
+[263.96 --> 270.92]  Jesus, you know just how far the east is
+[270.92 --> 272.64]  From the west
+[272.64 --> 277.86]  I don't have to see the man I've been
+[277.86 --> 281.26]  Rising up in me again
+[281.26 --> 285.58]  In the arms of your mercy I find red
+[285.58 --> 290.62]  But you know just how far the east is
+[290.62 --> 291.74]  From the west
+[291.74 --> 294.84]  One scarred hand to the other
+[294.84 --> 300.54]  Just how far the east is
+[300.54 --> 302.04]  From the west
+[302.04 --> 305.08]  Just how far
+[305.08 --> 308.38]  One scarred hand to the other
+[308.38 --> 312.70]  One scarred hand to the other
+[312.70 --> 315.20]  Is it for us
+[315.20 --> 317.48]  Just how far
+[317.48 --> 322.34]  One scarred hand to the other
+[322.34 --> 325.20]  One scarred hand to the other
+[325.20 --> 326.74]  Let the other
+[326.74 --> 326.78]  universal
+[326.78 --> 328.56]  Understand why
+[328.56 --> 329.02]  One scarred hand to the other
+[329.02 --> 330.72]  Benefits does not see the light
+[330.72 --> 331.46]  The other
+[331.46 --> 332.28]  arrangement in made
+[332.28 --> 333.42]  And all these
+[333.42 --> 336.10]  dreaming of the 똑같
+[336.10 --> 337.30]  Is it for you
+[337.30 --> 337.96]  He has the only
+[337.96 --> 338.06]  Deswnham
+[338.06 --> 339.36]  For us
+[339.36 --> 340.38]  That green
+[340.38 --> 340.96] ın
+[340.96 --> 341.18]  который
+[341.18 --> 341.58]  Spiel
+[341.58 --> 343.02]  Yer
+[343.02 --> 343.88]  Jules
+[343.88 --> 363.94]  Before I call, before I ever cry
+[363.94 --> 370.12]  You answer me from where the thunder lies
+[370.12 --> 375.88]  I cannot run this hard untended to
+[375.88 --> 382.02]  With every step I collide with you
+[382.02 --> 390.68]  Like a tidal wave, crashing over me
+[390.68 --> 394.34]  Rushing into me, me here
+[394.34 --> 399.20]  Your love is fierce, like a hurricane
+[399.20 --> 402.80]  That I can't escape
+[402.80 --> 406.06]  Tearing through the atmosphere
+[406.06 --> 409.34]  Your love is fierce
+[409.34 --> 415.46]  You cannot fail, the only thing I've found
+[415.46 --> 421.44]  Is through it all, you never let me down
+[421.44 --> 427.04]  You won't hold back, relentless in pursuit
+[427.04 --> 433.68]  Every turn I come face to face with you
+[433.68 --> 442.22]  Like a tidal wave, crashing over me
+[442.22 --> 445.94]  Rushing into me, me here
+[445.94 --> 450.78]  Your love is fierce, like a hurricane
+[450.78 --> 454.42]  That I can't escape
+[454.42 --> 458.02]  Tearing through the atmosphere
+[458.02 --> 459.02]  Your love is fierce, like a hurricane
+[459.02 --> 463.68]  You chase me down
+[463.68 --> 472.72]  Please stand and sing with us
+[472.72 --> 487.04]  Come people of the risen King
+[487.04 --> 491.40]  Who delights to bring Him praise
+[491.40 --> 496.00]  Come all and tune your hearts to sing
+[496.00 --> 499.86]  To the morning star of grace
+[499.86 --> 505.14]  From the shifting shadows of the earth
+[505.14 --> 509.36]  We will lift our eyes to Him
+[509.36 --> 514.14]  Where steady arms of mercy reach
+[514.14 --> 516.74]  To gather children
+[516.74 --> 521.14]  Rejoice, rejoice
+[521.14 --> 527.54]  Rejoice, let every tongue rejoice
+[527.54 --> 532.04]  One heart, one voice
+[532.04 --> 535.04]  O Church of Christ, rejoice
+[535.04 --> 537.04]  O Church of Christ, rejoice
+[537.04 --> 547.60]  Come those whose joy is morning sun
+[547.60 --> 552.08]  And those weeping through the night
+[552.08 --> 556.70]  Come those who tell of battles won
+[556.70 --> 560.98]  And those struggling in the fight
+[560.98 --> 565.98]  For His perfect love will never change
+[565.98 --> 570.18]  And His mercies never cease
+[570.18 --> 575.00]  But follow us through all our days
+[575.00 --> 579.18]  With a certain hope of peace
+[579.18 --> 583.18]  Rejoice, rejoice
+[583.18 --> 588.42]  Let every tongue rejoice
+[588.42 --> 593.02]  One heart, one voice
+[593.02 --> 598.02]  O Church of Christ, rejoice
+[598.02 --> 600.02]  O Church of Christ, rejoice
+[600.02 --> 605.02]  Lord, one voice
+[605.02 --> 606.02]  O Church of Christ, rejoice
+[606.02 --> 609.02]  The hope from every land
+[609.02 --> 613.02]  And women of the faith
+[613.02 --> 618.02]  From those with poor or empty hands
+[618.02 --> 622.02]  And the riches of His grace
+[622.02 --> 627.22]  Over all the world His people sing
+[627.22 --> 631.02]  Shore to shore we hear them call
+[631.02 --> 636.02]  The truth that cries through every age
+[636.02 --> 640.02]  Our God is all in all
+[640.02 --> 644.02]  Rejoice, rejoice
+[644.02 --> 649.02]  Let every tongue rejoice
+[649.02 --> 654.02]  One heart, one voice
+[654.02 --> 655.02]  O Church of Christ, rejoice
+[655.02 --> 659.02]  O Church of Christ, rejoice
+[659.02 --> 661.02]  Rejoice, rejoice
+[661.02 --> 663.02]  Rejoice, rejoice
+[663.02 --> 667.02]  Let every tongue rejoice
+[667.02 --> 672.02]  One heart, one voice
+[672.02 --> 676.02]  O Church of Christ, rejoice
+[676.02 --> 678.02]  O Church of Christ, rejoice
+[678.02 --> 681.02]  O Church of Christ, rejoice
+[681.02 --> 683.02]  Prayer
+[685.02 --> 696.02]  Before them
+[696.02 --> 697.00]  When the church Cyril
+[697.00 --> 702.60]  name is Chris. I'm one of the pastors here, and it's my privilege this morning, along with these
+[702.60 --> 709.96]  others, to lead you in worship together. Before we continue in our worship, there's a couple
+[709.96 --> 714.18]  announcements we want to make, and so I'm going to invite Josh to come up to the front so he can be
+[714.18 --> 725.74]  ready. First, we are pulling together a children's choir to complement the choir that will be singing
+[725.74 --> 734.10]  for us this Christmas in a Christmas program, and so Mark DeGeis, who is directing that choir, is looking
+[734.10 --> 741.88]  for kids in this sort of 7 to 14 year old age bracket. We have four who have already signed up
+[741.88 --> 749.50]  and are participating. Mark would love to see eight more, and so if you're able or interested, kids, if
+[749.50 --> 753.70]  this is something you might be interested in doing, talk to your parents. You can also talk to Mark.
+[753.70 --> 760.64]  He is around here somewhere, or will be around here somewhere shortly, and so you can grab him,
+[760.76 --> 768.02]  or grab me after, and I will direct you to him. The first practice for that children's choir will be
+[768.02 --> 774.02]  on November 6th, immediately after church, and so practices are on Sunday, so you're here already,
+[774.02 --> 779.34]  and you can get plugged in in that way. Also, just a couple things I want to draw your attention to
+[779.34 --> 786.92]  from the e-bulletin that gets mailed out each week. Night Shift Ministries has begun their dinner
+[786.92 --> 797.68]  service, and we, Emanuel Church, are committed to once a month volunteering and populating that and
+[797.68 --> 804.48]  making that happen, and so we're looking for groups of five or six people. This is great if you're in a
+[804.48 --> 811.72]  care group for the first Wednesday of every second month. Did you track that? If not, it's in the e-bulletin.
+[812.52 --> 819.72]  You'll be required from about 645 to about 815. If you're interested, you can connect with myself,
+[819.72 --> 826.60]  or Susan Stam is coordinating that, so get connected with her. Also, just wanted to draw your attention to
+[826.60 --> 832.54]  the Big Brother, Big Sister Christmas Hamper program that's happening again this year. It's Christmas
+[832.54 --> 837.66]  gifts for families in need. You can buy for a small family or for a large family. Again, you can do this
+[837.66 --> 842.88]  in your care group or other community group, and for that, you can connect with Mike Prins as he's
+[842.88 --> 851.06]  running that. And then finally for me, tonight, just a reminder to the youth, there is 2020 that's
+[851.06 --> 856.36]  happening here. It's your first one on spiritual disciplines, and that's going to run from 7 to 830.
+[856.62 --> 859.44]  And then Josh has one thing, too. Use that mic there.
+[863.34 --> 870.24]  Hello? Okay. Awesome. Thank you, everyone, for volunteering for the care packages for the
+[870.24 --> 875.20]  students abroad. We got all the volunteers we needed, so that's an awesome success. Thanks, everybody.
+[875.20 --> 881.12]  Also, there is a Bible study in November starting for young adults. If you want to be involved in
+[881.12 --> 887.38]  that, get the details, we need to figure out what day we want to do it on. Please come see me over
+[887.38 --> 894.00]  the side over there after church. Thank you. Excellent. I think Josh was looking for a round
+[894.00 --> 902.12]  of applause there. Does that what it felt like to you? Yeah, all right. We gather together as a church
+[902.12 --> 910.36]  family to worship our God, primarily because God calls us to this place, and he carries us into his
+[910.36 --> 916.46]  presence. And so if you drove here this morning, if you walked here this morning, the greater spiritual
+[916.46 --> 922.02]  truth is that God carried you here this morning. God brought you here this morning, and we mark his
+[922.02 --> 929.58]  presence by receiving his greeting. And so receive the greeting of our God as we come to worship him.
+[929.58 --> 937.78]  grace, mercy, and peace to you from God our Father, from the Lord Jesus Christ, his Son,
+[938.16 --> 944.84]  and our Savior, through the presence and power of the Holy Spirit. Amen. Let's worship God together.
+[947.78 --> 956.42]  Oh, sing to the Lord a new song. Sing to the Lord all the earth. Sing to the Lord, bless his name.
+[956.42 --> 965.52]  Tell of his salvation from day to day. Declare his glory among the nations, his marvelous works among all the
+[965.52 --> 974.24]  peoples. For great is the Lord, and greatly to be praised. For he is to be feared above all gods.
+[974.24 --> 993.18]  For thou, O Lord, our God above all gods.
+[993.18 --> 1023.16]  Thou art exalted, far above all gods. Thou art exalted, far above all gods.
+[1023.16 --> 1028.34]  I exalted, far above all gods. I exalted, far above all gods. I exalted, far above all gods. I exalted, far above all gods. sing to the Lord our peł logrin open to day.
+[1028.34 --> 1038.16]  I exalted, far above all gods. I exalted, far above all gods. I exalted, far above all gods. I exalted. Not too sad. It is the Lord,
+[1042.16 --> 1043.16]  I exalted Om laurens. The Lord of heights. I exalted, far above all gods. I out mercy on God, Lord ofiques on earth.
+[1043.16 --> 1061.46]  I exalt Thee, I exalt Thee, I exalt Thee, O Lord.
+[1061.46 --> 1071.08]  For Thou, O Lord, art my abide of all the earth.
+[1071.08 --> 1080.14]  Thou art exalted, far above all Christ.
+[1080.76 --> 1090.40]  For Thou, O Lord, art my abide of all the earth.
+[1090.40 --> 1098.84]  Thou art exalted, far above all Christ.
+[1098.84 --> 1117.04]  I exalt Thee, I exalt Thee, I exalt Thee, O Lord.
+[1117.04 --> 1135.64]  I exalt Thee, I exalt Thee, I exalt Thee, O Lord.
+[1135.64 --> 1156.24]  Then the angel showed me the river of the water of life, bright as crystal, flowing from the throne of God and of the Lamb through the middle of the street of the city.
+[1156.24 --> 1186.24] 
+[1186.24 --> 1187.68]  Amen.
+[1189.14 --> 1190.62]  Come quickly, Lord Jesus.
+[1190.62 --> 1217.62]  To the river I am going, bringing sins I cannot bear.
+[1217.62 --> 1222.62]  Come and cleanse me.
+[1222.62 --> 1226.62]  Come forgive me.
+[1226.62 --> 1232.62]  Lord, I need to meet you there.
+[1232.62 --> 1247.02]  In these waters, healing mercy, close with freedom from this land.
+[1247.02 --> 1254.02]  I am going to that river.
+[1254.02 --> 1255.02]  I am going to that river.
+[1255.02 --> 1261.02]  Lord, I need to meet you there.
+[1261.02 --> 1276.02]  Precious Jesus, I am ready to surrender every care.
+[1276.02 --> 1280.02]  Take my hand now.
+[1280.02 --> 1281.02]  Take my hand now.
+[1281.02 --> 1283.02]  Lead me closer.
+[1283.02 --> 1291.02]  Lord, I need to meet you there.
+[1291.02 --> 1298.02]  Come and join us in the river.
+[1298.02 --> 1303.02]  Come find life beyond comfort.
+[1303.02 --> 1310.02]  Come and join us in the river.
+[1310.02 --> 1316.02]  Come find life beyond comfort.
+[1316.02 --> 1318.02]  Come and join us in the river.
+[1318.02 --> 1319.02]  Come is joy.
+[1319.02 --> 1323.02]  God, come and join us in the river.
+[1323.02 --> 1324.02]  With wisdom and command the river affect dead us in the river in the states.
+[1324.02 --> 1332.58]  Jesus long to meet you there
+[1332.58 --> 1338.78]  He is calling, He is waiting
+[1338.78 --> 1346.36]  Jesus long to meet you there
+[1346.36 --> 1352.70]  Precious Jesus, I am ready
+[1352.70 --> 1359.30]  To surrender every care
+[1359.30 --> 1366.76]  Take my hand now, lead me closer
+[1366.76 --> 1373.28]  Lord, I need to meet you there
+[1373.28 --> 1380.70]  Take my hand now, lead me closer
+[1380.70 --> 1387.30]  Lord, I need to meet you there
+[1387.30 --> 1393.90]  Good morning
+[1393.90 --> 1415.78]  Good morning
+[1415.78 --> 1429.94]  Today's offerings are for the church budget and ministries
+[1429.94 --> 1432.38]  And for night shift ministries
+[1432.38 --> 1438.98]  Located in Surrey
+[1438.98 --> 1447.66]  They serve the homeless and disadvantaged by providing crisis counselling, meals, clothing and prayer
+[1447.66 --> 1456.08]  Night shift also offers support to those that desire to leave the addictive cycle of alcohol and drugs
+[1456.08 --> 1463.56]  More than 2500 volunteers who give their time and energy and resources to serve
+[1463.56 --> 1472.16]  Matthew chapter 25 verse 35, 36 and 40
+[1472.16 --> 1474.44]  He says
+[1474.44 --> 1478.16]  For I was hungry and you gave me something to eat
+[1478.76 --> 1482.68]  I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink
+[1482.68 --> 1486.88]  I was a stranger and you invited me in
+[1486.88 --> 1490.24]  I needed clothes and you clothed me
+[1490.24 --> 1494.84]  I was in prison and you came to visit me
+[1494.84 --> 1497.64]  Truly, I tell you, whatever you did
+[1497.64 --> 1501.26]  For one of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine
+[1501.26 --> 1502.72]  You did for me
+[1502.72 --> 1508.34]  Next week's special offering is for the Langley Emanuel budget
+[1508.34 --> 1512.86]  Give what the Lord has put in your heart
+[1512.86 --> 1515.38]  Ian
+[1515.38 --> 1532.66]  Alright, go from this
+[1532.66 --> 1534.66]  Amen.
+[1562.66 --> 1564.66]  Amen.
+[1592.66 --> 1594.66]  Amen.
+[1622.66 --> 1624.66]  Amen.
+[1652.66 --> 1654.66]  Amen.
+[1654.66 --> 1656.66]  Amen.
+[1656.66 --> 1660.66]  Jesus, Messiah.
+[1660.66 --> 1666.66]  Name above all names.
+[1666.66 --> 1678.66]  Blessed Redeemer, Emmanuel.
+[1678.66 --> 1684.66]  The rescue for sinners.
+[1684.66 --> 1690.66]  The rest of our heaven.
+[1690.66 --> 1696.66]  Jesus, Messiah.
+[1696.66 --> 1702.66]  Lord of all.
+[1702.66 --> 1708.66]  All our hope is in you.
+[1708.66 --> 1714.66]  All our hope is in you.
+[1714.66 --> 1722.66]  All the glory to you, God.
+[1722.66 --> 1728.66]  The light of the world.
+[1728.66 --> 1734.66]  Jesus, Messiah.
+[1734.66 --> 1740.66]  Name above all names.
+[1740.66 --> 1750.66]  Blessed Redeemer, Emmanuel.
+[1750.66 --> 1756.66]  The rescue for sinners.
+[1756.66 --> 1760.66]  The ransom from heaven.
+[1760.66 --> 1766.66]  Jesus, Messiah.
+[1766.66 --> 1768.66]  Lord of all.
+[1768.66 --> 1770.66]  Lord of all.
+[1770.66 --> 1772.66]  Jesus, Messiah.
+[1772.66 --> 1774.66]  Lord of all.
+[1774.66 --> 1776.66]  Jesus, Messiah.
+[1776.66 --> 1778.66]  Lord of all.
+[1778.66 --> 1780.66]  I invite you to be seated.
+[1780.66 --> 1796.66]  And, oh, I'm as loud as Kevin now.
+[1796.66 --> 1808.66]  Kids, age three, up to grade four, anyone who feels like they would like to come up, you're welcome to come join me at the front here for Kids Corner.
+[1808.66 --> 1822.66]  So we're going to start Kids Corner today by talking about our memory verses.
+[1822.66 --> 1826.66]  And I just realized that I need to say kind of a big thank you to you guys.
+[1826.66 --> 1832.66]  If you remember back last year, we had a lot of church maybe at your house where you're watching it on TV.
+[1832.66 --> 1840.66]  And some of us, me and Mr. Eric and Mr. Mike and Pastor Kevin, were doing Kids Corner and we were doing all these different memory verses.
+[1840.66 --> 1843.66]  And it was really hard for us to do the actions and remember them.
+[1843.66 --> 1844.66]  So we needed your help.
+[1844.66 --> 1848.66]  And lots of you guys made videos of the memory verses.
+[1848.66 --> 1850.66]  And you might have seen each other during church.
+[1850.66 --> 1858.66]  So I just wanted to thank you guys for doing that, for participating and helping us all, the whole church, learn those verses together.
+[1858.66 --> 1862.66]  And then I just wanted to remind you that we actually still have memory verses.
+[1862.66 --> 1870.66]  Our new coordinators here have picked one from the book of 1 Peter for this month because in the church here, we've been doing a sermon series on that.
+[1870.66 --> 1873.66]  So your moms and dads have been learning about 1 Peter.
+[1873.66 --> 1877.66]  So we're going to just practice the memory verse today all together.
+[1877.66 --> 1878.66]  Everybody here.
+[1878.66 --> 1880.66]  We're going to just repeat it.
+[1880.66 --> 1883.66]  I don't have any actions, but we'll repeat it.
+[1883.66 --> 1887.66]  I'll say it and then you guys can repeat it and we'll do that a couple times so it gets in our head.
+[1887.66 --> 1890.66]  And then hopefully you'll remember it for the week to come.
+[1890.66 --> 1891.66]  So it goes like this.
+[1891.66 --> 1896.66]  So I'll say the first couple words and then when I pause, you guys repeat it.
+[1896.66 --> 1897.66]  Can you guys do that?
+[1897.66 --> 1899.66]  Can you guys do that?
+[1899.66 --> 1901.66]  Okay, we'll see.
+[1901.66 --> 1902.66]  The kids seem confident.
+[1902.66 --> 1904.66]  Everyone else, I'm not quite sure.
+[1904.66 --> 1922.66]  So above all, love each other deeply because love covers over a multitude of sins.
+[1922.66 --> 1927.66]  1 Peter 4 verse 8.
+[1927.66 --> 1928.66]  All right.
+[1928.66 --> 1930.66]  I think we need to practice it one more time.
+[1930.66 --> 1933.66]  I'm going to say a few more words at a time this time.
+[1933.66 --> 1934.66]  I think you can do it.
+[1934.66 --> 1946.66]  Above all, love each other deeply because love covers over a multitude of sins.
+[1946.66 --> 1951.66]  1 Peter 4 verse 8.
+[1951.66 --> 1952.66]  Nice work.
+[1952.66 --> 1953.66]  All right.
+[1953.66 --> 1961.66]  So just a reminder for everybody that there are some of these cards in the foyer at the children's worship time booth.
+[1961.66 --> 1967.66]  If that helps your family to remember this on your fridge or somewhere in your house, you can grab one.
+[1967.66 --> 1972.66]  And kids, if you remember it next week at church, one of the coordinators will be coming around.
+[1972.66 --> 1975.66]  And I think there are some prizes if you remember this.
+[1975.66 --> 1979.66]  I have one more question actually about this.
+[1979.66 --> 1982.66]  It's about one of the words, the word multitude.
+[1982.66 --> 1985.66]  Do you guys here up front know what a multitude is?
+[1985.66 --> 1987.66]  How many people know what a multitude is?
+[1987.66 --> 1989.66]  Put up your hand if you know what that means.
+[1990.66 --> 1992.66]  Nora, what does it mean?
+[1992.66 --> 1994.66]  A big group, a whole bunch.
+[1994.66 --> 1999.66]  So a multitude of sins is a little bit of sin or a lot of sin?
+[1999.66 --> 2000.66]  A lot.
+[2000.66 --> 2002.66]  So what does this verse mean?
+[2002.66 --> 2009.66]  It means that when we love each other, when we love each other and our families and our friends and our church and our community,
+[2009.66 --> 2013.66]  that we will be forgiving of people who do sins.
+[2013.66 --> 2015.66]  And how many of us sin?
+[2016.66 --> 2017.66]  All.
+[2017.66 --> 2018.66]  Exactly.
+[2018.66 --> 2019.66]  All of us.
+[2019.66 --> 2022.66]  So it's important to love each other and not just a little bit, deeply it says.
+[2022.66 --> 2028.66]  So in our children's worship time today, we're going to talk about a multitude as well, but not about a multitude of sins.
+[2028.66 --> 2035.66]  It's about a man who had a promise that he would have a multitude of descendants or family members.
+[2035.66 --> 2037.66]  Does anyone know who that guy is?
+[2037.66 --> 2038.66]  Haley, who do you think?
+[2038.66 --> 2039.66]  Noah.
+[2040.66 --> 2042.66]  Does anyone have any other guesses?
+[2042.66 --> 2043.66]  Zoe, what do you think?
+[2044.66 --> 2045.66]  Jesus?
+[2045.66 --> 2047.66]  All people in the Bible.
+[2047.66 --> 2050.66]  It starts with the letter A.
+[2051.66 --> 2052.66]  Malachi?
+[2052.66 --> 2053.66]  Abraham.
+[2053.66 --> 2054.66]  Abraham.
+[2054.66 --> 2055.66]  Thanks.
+[2055.66 --> 2057.66]  The winters, you got it.
+[2057.66 --> 2065.66]  We're going to learn about Abraham and God had a promise for him that he would have so many family members, descendants, as many as the stars in the sky.
+[2065.66 --> 2069.66]  So we'll pray together and then we'll stand up after for the blessing.
+[2070.66 --> 2076.66]  Lord Jesus, we thank you for your word and that we can remember it and that we can learn from it.
+[2076.66 --> 2084.66]  And we pray that you would give us the strength to love each other deeply and to be forgiving in hard times and in easy times, God.
+[2084.66 --> 2089.66]  Thank you for this chance to gather together and learn more about you.
+[2090.66 --> 2091.66]  In Jesus name, amen.
+[2092.66 --> 2093.66]  Alright, let's all stand up.
+[2095.66 --> 2098.66]  And, yep, kids, we're going to face everyone else.
+[2114.66 --> 2127.66]  As the children leave the sanctuary here, I've got a couple announcements.
+[2127.66 --> 2130.66]  I'm not here doing the prayer, but I've got a couple announcements.
+[2131.66 --> 2139.66]  If most of you have not known or read in the bulletin, I have been selected by my peers to be chair of council.
+[2139.66 --> 2143.66]  So you'll see me up here. We're doing some announcements throughout the year.
+[2144.66 --> 2148.66]  And with that, I have some announcements today for you all.
+[2149.66 --> 2156.66]  So first thing I'd like to address is we had to do a little bit of a shift with our admin council this term.
+[2157.66 --> 2158.66]  We thought we'd let you guys know.
+[2159.66 --> 2164.66]  Pim shown that this time in his life is not a good time to take on the responsibilities that came with being the clerk.
+[2164.66 --> 2173.66]  So we've decided to just take care of that internally with some other people in council stepped up to fill in some of the responsibilities that come with that.
+[2174.66 --> 2176.66]  So that's what we're going to do.
+[2177.66 --> 2180.66]  And we should be, that should all work out fine.
+[2180.66 --> 2188.66]  So the next thing that comes along with that is that we're going to have a congregational meeting coming up in the end of November.
+[2188.66 --> 2189.66]  So we'd like you everyone to come there.
+[2190.66 --> 2195.66]  This is a good opportunity for everybody to have a say and an input in how this church is where we're going and where we're heading.
+[2196.66 --> 2199.66]  So we appreciate and would like to have everybody come out for that.
+[2199.66 --> 2208.66]  And in the next couple of weeks you should be getting some correspondence in your mailbox about the budget and all those kind of things have to get passed at the next meeting.
+[2209.66 --> 2210.66]  So thank you.
+[2210.66 --> 2225.66]  Good morning.
+[2226.66 --> 2235.66]  I am Ken and I am an elder here at Emmanuel and I am going to lead you in congregational prayer this morning.
+[2235.66 --> 2239.66]  Let's pray.
+[2240.66 --> 2257.66]  Our Father who is in heaven, what a comfort to know that you are our Father, that you are present in our lives every day, that we may come to you week after week in prayer and in praise of your holy name.
+[2257.66 --> 2266.66]  Father, your amazing design on this world is once again right in front of us as we see the leaves changing and making beautiful colors showing your greatness.
+[2267.66 --> 2277.66]  It is also a sure knowledge that in five or six months or so the leaves will once again begin to grow as you have designed it that way and showing your renewing power.
+[2277.66 --> 2288.66]  Lord, as we come to you this morning, we come to you because it is good to stop, to stop dealing with what we sometimes think is important.
+[2289.66 --> 2295.66]  We keep our lives so busy with work, family, friends, hobbies and many self-serving things.
+[2295.66 --> 2302.66]  We need to come here to slow down, stop and acknowledge you as the sovereign Lord and provider of all things.
+[2303.66 --> 2308.66]  We need to acknowledge that we do not keep our lives busy with your good work as much as we should.
+[2309.66 --> 2316.66]  And Lord, forgive us for our sins and help us to focus our lives on you and love for others instead of love for ourselves.
+[2316.66 --> 2324.66]  Father, we pray for Steve, Karen and their children as they continue to grieve the passing of Karen's dad.
+[2325.66 --> 2329.66]  Father, we pray that you will give them peace and assurance during this time.
+[2330.66 --> 2338.66]  We continue to hold up to you Willie, Bob, Juanita and Janet as they continue to struggle with various health issues.
+[2339.66 --> 2344.66]  Father, be near to each one and grant that they may recover to full health.
+[2344.66 --> 2353.66]  We pray for all those at Manoa Manor as many are suffering from COVID there and a number of residents have passed away recently.
+[2354.66 --> 2358.66]  We pray for comfort for those families and ask for an end to this outbreak.
+[2359.66 --> 2363.66]  Father, we pray for all those suffering from COVID at this time.
+[2364.66 --> 2369.66]  Even though in some ways things are getting better, COVID is still here and it is still affecting so many people.
+[2369.66 --> 2380.66]  Be with our healthcare system, the workers as they deal with overloaded ICUs and hospitals, as well as the trauma involved in seeing so many suffering people.
+[2381.66 --> 2394.66]  Father, as the amount of information out there continues to grow and people try to decipher what is truth and what is not, give wisdom, give patience and give us servant hearts to deal with each other in love.
+[2394.66 --> 2397.66]  Watch over those who are shut in and unable to get around.
+[2398.66 --> 2402.66]  Father, this has also caused an increase in mental health issues.
+[2403.66 --> 2411.66]  And Father, the suffering of mental health is one that can take the strongest of people and bring them to their knees in anguish.
+[2411.66 --> 2416.66]  Father, be their light, their comfort and their strength.
+[2417.66 --> 2420.66]  We also pray for our pastor and his family.
+[2421.66 --> 2428.66]  They have been displaced from their home and are again moving into another temporary place while repairs to their house will hopefully get underway soon.
+[2429.66 --> 2436.66]  Give them patience, peace and wisdom as they deal with all of this along with maintaining their regular day-to-day responsibilities.
+[2436.66 --> 2441.66]  Continue to watch over the good work of your church here in this place.
+[2442.66 --> 2445.66]  There are many groups, committees, care groups, leadership groups.
+[2446.66 --> 2453.66]  All of these are designed to offer opportunity for your people to serve you and honor you by loving your church and the people in it.
+[2454.66 --> 2457.66]  It can also provide ways to reach the people in our community.
+[2457.66 --> 2466.66]  And Lord, may we be a light to all people here in Murrayville to point people to you, to a life of joy in you.
+[2467.66 --> 2471.66]  Grant us all a heart of learning and hearing as your servant Chris brings us your word.
+[2472.66 --> 2474.66]  May we all rest in you in this day.
+[2474.66 --> 2475.66]  In Jesus name we pray.
+[2475.66 --> 2476.66]  Amen.
+[2487.66 --> 2510.66]  We're going to continue in our series in the book of 1 Peter this morning.
+[2510.66 --> 2515.66]  And in just a moment I'm going to read with you from 1 Peter 2.
+[2516.66 --> 2517.66]  We're going to start at verse 11.
+[2517.66 --> 2525.66]  So if you'd like you can grab a Bible or turn your phone Bible app on and get that ready to go.
+[2525.66 --> 2527.66]  We will read that together shortly.
+[2527.66 --> 2530.66]  It will also be on the screen behind me.
+[2531.66 --> 2534.66]  For what it's worth, this is a bit of an aside.
+[2534.66 --> 2547.66]  I really do think it's best, I think the best way to engage in the preaching and that opportunity is to have a Bible.
+[2547.66 --> 2549.66]  Whether it's on your phone or in your hands.
+[2549.66 --> 2552.66]  Because we will refer back and go around and jump around.
+[2552.66 --> 2559.66]  And it seems to me that there's just something helpful about having that concretely in your hands.
+[2559.66 --> 2565.66]  And so maybe even the best way to do that is to bring your own personal Bible from home.
+[2565.66 --> 2567.66]  Your devotional Bible.
+[2567.66 --> 2572.66]  And then you can write all over it and highlight all over it and color code it and make it look all beautiful and the like.
+[2572.66 --> 2577.66]  And then when I get boring, because inevitably that will happen, you have a place where you can draw a picture.
+[2577.66 --> 2583.66]  And continue at least looking like you're participating in that way.
+[2583.66 --> 2586.66]  Forgive me for that.
+[2586.66 --> 2597.66]  Some of you know, but when I was a kid, I grew up in a great Christian home with really loving parents.
+[2597.66 --> 2599.66]  And I say that not just because my parents are here.
+[2599.66 --> 2601.66]  Hi, Mom and Dad.
+[2601.66 --> 2604.66]  I say that because it's true.
+[2604.66 --> 2610.66]  We were part of a church that, and some of you understand this, right?
+[2610.66 --> 2611.66]  You get this.
+[2611.66 --> 2613.66]  That had two services.
+[2613.66 --> 2628.66]  And we went every week to morning church and afternoon church at 4 o'clock in the winters and then 6 o'clock or 7 o'clock or whatever o'clock in the summertime.
+[2628.66 --> 2632.66]  Because part of our church was in a farming community, and so you know what it is.
+[2632.66 --> 2637.66]  You adjust for milking schedules and make hay when the sun shines and all of that.
+[2637.66 --> 2643.66]  Anyway, I grew up in a pretty traditional and conservative church community.
+[2643.66 --> 2650.66]  What that meant was we went to church twice on Sunday and nothing got in the way of that.
+[2650.66 --> 2657.66]  I didn't understand what that meant as a kid until I brushed up to a conflict.
+[2657.66 --> 2660.66]  And so, when I was younger, I played baseball.
+[2660.66 --> 2665.66]  And I played a lot of baseball, and I really enjoyed it, and it was fun.
+[2665.66 --> 2676.66]  And one year, I was 12 or 13 or something, and I managed to make the city travel team for baseball.
+[2676.66 --> 2679.66]  And I was super excited.
+[2679.66 --> 2686.66]  Not the least of which because when I went to the tryouts, the final tryout, I rode my bike there, and I was running late, so I was going too fast.
+[2686.66 --> 2691.66]  And I crashed my bike, and I skidded across the ground, and I had road rash on my hands and knees.
+[2691.66 --> 2694.66]  But still, I showed up and I made that team.
+[2694.66 --> 2697.66]  I was proud of my effort and the ability.
+[2697.66 --> 2705.66]  And so, a couple days later, the coach calls, and he says, Chris, I want you to know you've made the team.
+[2705.66 --> 2706.66]  We want you to join us.
+[2706.66 --> 2709.66]  Our first practice is Sunday morning.
+[2709.66 --> 2714.66]  I said, Coach, you're going to have to wait a second.
+[2714.66 --> 2716.66]  Mom?
+[2716.66 --> 2719.66]  Can we talk?
+[2719.66 --> 2727.66]  Well, it turns out I couldn't play on that team because we had to prioritize going to church.
+[2727.66 --> 2732.66]  Now, as a 12 or 13-year-old, I didn't get that at all.
+[2732.66 --> 2738.66]  And I know that there are some of you here this morning who make different decisions than that for your family.
+[2738.66 --> 2741.66]  In our family, that was the decision that was made.
+[2741.66 --> 2747.66]  Now, I would note that after I was a teenager and moved out of the house, my parents stopped going to the second service.
+[2747.66 --> 2751.66]  So, interesting.
+[2754.66 --> 2758.66]  I had to talk to the coach and tell him that I couldn't play.
+[2758.66 --> 2763.66]  And that we went to church on Sunday mornings.
+[2763.66 --> 2776.66]  And whether or not this was actually the case or if this was just what I heard because I was receiving and processing this information through my own lens of lack of understanding,
+[2776.66 --> 2783.66]  but I heard in my coach's voice disappointment because he didn't get it.
+[2783.66 --> 2784.66]  What do you mean you have church?
+[2784.66 --> 2786.66]  You can go next week.
+[2786.66 --> 2788.66]  Or in my family, you could go in the afternoon.
+[2788.66 --> 2790.66]  You could still come in the morning.
+[2794.66 --> 2804.66]  It was, for me, but for people on the outside looking in, weird that we made those kinds of decisions as Christians.
+[2808.66 --> 2813.66]  Now, we don't need to have a big conversation about Sabbatarianism and legalism and things like that.
+[2813.66 --> 2825.66]  But what I want you to hear as we come into this text from 1 Peter is what does it mean to be weird as Christians to the world around us?
+[2825.66 --> 2840.66]  What does it mean for the types of things that we do, the sorts of decisions we make, the things that we participate in to look strange and foreign and alien, people who just can't get it?
+[2840.66 --> 2843.66]  With that in mind, let's look at this text.
+[2843.66 --> 2849.66]  1 Peter 2, starting at verse 11.
+[2849.66 --> 2863.66]  Dear friends, I urge you as foreigners and exiles to abstain from sinful desires which wage war against your soul.
+[2863.66 --> 2875.66]  Live such good lives among the pagans that, though they accuse you of doing wrong, they may see your good deeds and glorify God on the day he visits us.
+[2875.66 --> 2891.66]  Submit yourselves for the Lord's sake to every human authority, whether to the emperor as the supreme authority, or to governors who are sent by him to punish those who do wrong and to commend those who do right.
+[2891.66 --> 2898.66]  For it is God's will that by doing good you should silence the ignorant talk of foolish people.
+[2898.66 --> 2902.66]  Live as free people.
+[2902.66 --> 2906.66]  But do not use your freedom as a cover-up for evil.
+[2906.66 --> 2910.66]  Live as God's slaves.
+[2910.66 --> 2913.66]  Show proper respect to everyone.
+[2913.66 --> 2915.66]  Love the family of believers.
+[2915.66 --> 2916.66]  Fear God.
+[2916.66 --> 2918.66]  Honor the emperor.
+[2918.66 --> 2919.66]  The emperor.
+[2919.66 --> 2921.66]  This is the word of the Lord.
+[2921.66 --> 2947.66]  Now, for those of you who have been following along in this series, either here in person or online, you will recall that we have available for you and for your personal study or your care group study, a bit of a Bible study that doesn't necessarily parallel this work because you can move through it at different paces, but allows you to dig deep into the processing of this work.
+[2947.66 --> 2954.66]  And so, if you haven't heard about that, or if you would like a copy of this, you can talk to me after and we'll get that situated.
+[2954.66 --> 2964.66]  Now, Peter starts this section of his letter by saying, dear friends.
+[2964.66 --> 2989.66]  And now, while it is likely true that the recipients of this letter are dear friends of Peter or that he considers them as such, what I want you to hear first and foremost is that the word that's used there, this letter was originally written in Greek, and the Greek word that is used there is agapetoi, which means literally beloved.
+[2989.66 --> 2990.66]  Beloved.
+[2991.56 --> 2992.20]  Beloved.
+[2992.62 --> 2999.58]  And so, this is more than Friends of Peter, this is ultimately about being beloved.
+[3000.26 --> 3001.76]  But beloved by whom?
+[3003.58 --> 3008.20]  Because ultimately, this is about being beloved or loved of God.
+[3009.18 --> 3015.42]  And Peter has been spending time reminding us that we are chosen by God and precious to Him.
+[3015.42 --> 3020.50]  Pastor Kevin looked at this last week for us, that we are his special possession.
+[3021.64 --> 3024.28]  This is the ground of our identity.
+[3024.86 --> 3032.62]  This is the firm foundation of which Jesus is the cornerstone for your life and for yourself.
+[3033.46 --> 3039.66]  As a chosen people, by grace through faith, you are loved of God.
+[3039.66 --> 3049.22]  Or, to put it another way, you are loved of God, and so, by grace through faith, he has chosen you.
+[3050.10 --> 3056.18]  He has made you for his own, adopted you as heirs of God and co-heirs with Christ.
+[3056.34 --> 3064.04]  You are lavishly loved of the Father, and he has called you a son or a daughter.
+[3064.04 --> 3068.72]  And you have received this from him.
+[3069.66 --> 3078.14]  And because you are beloved of him, you also become more in him.
+[3079.96 --> 3087.10]  Peter writes, beloved, I urge you as foreigners and exiles.
+[3088.10 --> 3090.98]  This is all identity language, right?
+[3091.12 --> 3094.68]  Beloved, foreigners, and exiles.
+[3094.68 --> 3107.02]  Now, the older translation of the NIV that maybe you have or that you read from, the older one than the one we are currently using anyway, there says strangers and aliens.
+[3108.10 --> 3110.06]  Now, you might read the ESV.
+[3110.20 --> 3111.64]  That's another translation that I like.
+[3111.70 --> 3114.16]  It says sojourners and exiles.
+[3114.16 --> 3123.10]  Or maybe you're old enough or of a particular generation to remember the King James Version that says strangers and pilgrims.
+[3124.02 --> 3124.88]  But here's the point, right?
+[3124.96 --> 3132.20]  Being loved of God, beloved of God, being his beloved puts you in a relationship with God.
+[3132.20 --> 3142.04]  And being in a relationship with God changes your relationship to the world and changes your relationships in the world.
+[3143.08 --> 3148.58]  No longer do you feel at home here, completely comfortable and settled.
+[3148.58 --> 3153.22]  Instead, Peter says, you are a foreigner.
+[3153.62 --> 3154.90]  You are an exile.
+[3155.70 --> 3162.50]  Because you are loved of God, you love what he loves and you love the way that he loves.
+[3163.82 --> 3169.86]  And when you do that, that will make you a stranger and an alien in the world.
+[3169.86 --> 3182.02]  Because you are loved by God, because you love what he loves and you love the way that he loves, you will be strangers and aliens, foreigners and exiles in a world that doesn't know him.
+[3185.00 --> 3194.94]  I want to be bold with you this morning because the time is coming and has now come when you too will have to be bold about it.
+[3194.94 --> 3209.30]  Because if your life isn't foreign, if your life isn't strangely incomprehensible or uniquely different, if you don't seem to be at least a little bit weird to those people in your life or work or school or neighborhood,
+[3209.82 --> 3214.16]  what are you really basing your life on?
+[3215.26 --> 3219.34]  Who or what are you really being defined by?
+[3219.34 --> 3229.70]  If you look and act and sound exactly the same and have the same hopes and dreams for your life, are you really any different?
+[3230.62 --> 3234.32]  And if you're not different, what's the point?
+[3237.04 --> 3242.26]  Like I said, a time is coming, and maybe it's already come, when we will have to decide.
+[3242.26 --> 3254.16]  In a post-Christian culture, in a time of secular paganism, meaningful, committed, gospel-centered, Jesus-exalting, God-glorifying Christianity,
+[3254.36 --> 3257.08]  we'll not be able to hide in the mainstream.
+[3258.42 --> 3266.66]  Instead, we're going to have to stand against the flow of culture and the tides of idolatry, whatever form it's going to take in today's world.
+[3266.66 --> 3277.54]  The reality of living as exiles in the world is this new reality for us.
+[3278.26 --> 3280.90]  And that's what Peter is urging us in.
+[3280.98 --> 3281.16]  He says,
+[3281.28 --> 3290.88]  I urge you, beloved, as foreigners and exiles, to abstain from sinful desires which wage war against your soul.
+[3291.84 --> 3293.22]  And so hear that, right?
+[3293.26 --> 3294.48]  There's more identity language.
+[3294.48 --> 3301.42]  Beloved, foreigner, exile, and now warriors.
+[3302.90 --> 3304.26]  You are at war.
+[3305.08 --> 3307.00]  And it's a war for your soul.
+[3307.12 --> 3308.74]  It's a war against sin.
+[3309.86 --> 3312.90]  I want to acknowledge here that this probably isn't politically correct.
+[3313.84 --> 3317.02]  And this maybe offends your modern sensibility,
+[3317.36 --> 3322.28]  and this definitely contradicts the social value of tolerance that is so common in our world today.
+[3322.28 --> 3324.14]  But you are at war.
+[3324.28 --> 3327.32]  To be a Christian is to be at war.
+[3327.54 --> 3330.16]  But, and I'm going to slow down,
+[3330.94 --> 3332.98]  and I'm going to lean in, and I'm going to ask you to lean in,
+[3333.20 --> 3334.56]  because I want you to listen carefully.
+[3335.36 --> 3338.38]  You are at war, but, and here it is,
+[3338.90 --> 3343.22]  first and foremost, you are not at war against a political ideology.
+[3343.22 --> 3348.50]  You are not at war against a cultural morality or against a cultural immorality.
+[3348.70 --> 3352.54]  You are not at war, first and foremost, against flesh and blood.
+[3352.88 --> 3356.42]  You are at war with your sinful desires.
+[3357.28 --> 3357.38]  Right?
+[3357.44 --> 3361.16]  Your war is first here, and it is second here.
+[3361.38 --> 3365.46]  And really, only after you lose this war and this war in your heart and in your head,
+[3365.46 --> 3367.32]  and you act on those sinful desires,
+[3367.44 --> 3370.62]  does your war move out of here and into the world?
+[3373.20 --> 3377.48]  The problem is that so many of us, so many of you,
+[3379.08 --> 3385.46]  especially if you lived and came to formation in the 20th century,
+[3386.26 --> 3390.84]  did so in a time when we could talk about a Christian culture.
+[3390.84 --> 3391.62]  Right?
+[3391.68 --> 3396.16]  When the only real religious divide was whether you were Protestant or Catholic.
+[3398.06 --> 3400.00]  Now, sure, by the end of the 20th century,
+[3400.14 --> 3404.14]  atheism has sort of emerged into the upper echelons of society,
+[3404.26 --> 3406.58]  but the average person, if not a Christian,
+[3406.82 --> 3409.84]  was still likely a theist or a deist,
+[3409.92 --> 3411.66]  or at most, they were an agnostic.
+[3413.54 --> 3416.62]  And because that was the dominant sort of cultural milieu,
+[3416.86 --> 3420.28]  the dominant cultural context in which so many of us came up,
+[3420.28 --> 3424.44]  and so many of us lived for so long, for generations, for centuries, really,
+[3424.98 --> 3427.10]  we could presume belief.
+[3427.40 --> 3432.20]  Or at minimum, as Christians, we could presume a sympathy for belief.
+[3433.30 --> 3437.24]  And it's out of that context that rises things like the culture wars.
+[3438.20 --> 3438.36]  Right?
+[3438.42 --> 3442.56]  That rises things like the sexual revolution of the 60s and into the present,
+[3442.66 --> 3445.40]  and the purity movement that happens in response.
+[3445.68 --> 3446.56]  And let's be honest, right?
+[3446.56 --> 3449.42]  When that wasn't enough of a war going on around us,
+[3449.44 --> 3451.86]  in the evangelical church, we created our own wars.
+[3451.94 --> 3453.06]  We had worship wars.
+[3454.02 --> 3455.30]  Of all the things to fight about.
+[3456.76 --> 3461.50]  But this is what happens when you take the war against your own sinful desires
+[3461.50 --> 3463.32]  out of your heart and out of your head
+[3463.32 --> 3466.26]  and project it onto a culture around you,
+[3466.84 --> 3469.88]  especially onto the unbelieving parts of that culture.
+[3469.88 --> 3474.32]  But our context has changed.
+[3476.32 --> 3479.06]  So many of us operate as if it hasn't.
+[3480.94 --> 3482.46]  Maybe we lost the culture wars.
+[3483.78 --> 3487.20]  Maybe the sexual revolution won in a war of attrition.
+[3488.56 --> 3492.38]  But in our post-Christian, 21st century, progressive and liberal world,
+[3492.64 --> 3494.30]  the war isn't out there.
+[3494.64 --> 3495.48]  It's in here.
+[3496.46 --> 3497.38]  And it's in here.
+[3497.38 --> 3504.78]  When was the last time that you fought against the sin in your life
+[3504.78 --> 3506.02]  like you were at war?
+[3508.80 --> 3512.70]  Instead, we sing Simon and Garfunkel,
+[3513.16 --> 3514.80]  Hello, darkness, my old friend.
+[3515.80 --> 3518.00]  We make friends with our sin.
+[3518.46 --> 3520.16]  Now, that reference might be too old for some of you,
+[3520.24 --> 3521.38]  so here's another one.
+[3521.42 --> 3522.80]  Avi Kaplan, right?
+[3522.90 --> 3524.54]  I know darkness and it knows me.
+[3524.66 --> 3526.32]  I know my sins and they know me.
+[3526.32 --> 3527.32]  Right?
+[3529.08 --> 3534.08]  We so easily become complacent in and with our sins.
+[3534.24 --> 3536.78]  Or, if not complacent, we become cynical,
+[3537.02 --> 3539.36]  believing that there's no way that we can overcome them
+[3539.36 --> 3541.00]  or there's no way that they can be overcome
+[3541.00 --> 3543.62]  in Jesus or in the power of the Spirit.
+[3545.06 --> 3547.24]  Or we could become indifferent,
+[3548.24 --> 3550.52]  believing that they're not really that bad,
+[3551.02 --> 3553.92]  that it's just okay, it's who I am,
+[3553.92 --> 3556.16]  and really, what's wrong with me being who I am?
+[3560.80 --> 3561.94]  This is a war
+[3561.94 --> 3564.84]  for your identity
+[3564.84 --> 3566.76]  and your soul.
+[3568.04 --> 3569.58]  And into that context,
+[3569.74 --> 3570.40]  Peter says,
+[3570.40 --> 3570.96]  instead,
+[3571.96 --> 3574.16]  live such good lives
+[3574.16 --> 3575.28]  among the pagans
+[3575.28 --> 3577.66]  that though they accuse you of doing wrong,
+[3578.24 --> 3579.74]  they may see your good deeds
+[3579.74 --> 3582.08]  and glorify God on the day he visits.
+[3583.08 --> 3584.86]  Live such good lives,
+[3585.56 --> 3586.04]  Peter says.
+[3586.58 --> 3586.72]  Right?
+[3586.78 --> 3587.10]  Peter says,
+[3587.20 --> 3588.10]  resist evil
+[3588.10 --> 3589.10]  and do good.
+[3589.10 --> 3590.76]  Stop doing those things
+[3590.76 --> 3592.74]  that define you apart or before Jesus
+[3592.74 --> 3595.18]  and start doing or doing more of
+[3595.18 --> 3597.30]  the sorts of things that define you
+[3597.30 --> 3598.46]  in Jesus.
+[3599.04 --> 3599.14]  Right?
+[3599.18 --> 3602.26]  They're two sides of the same identity coin,
+[3602.38 --> 3603.84]  two sides of being beloved
+[3603.84 --> 3605.78]  and foreigners and exiles.
+[3606.56 --> 3607.54]  This is what it means
+[3607.54 --> 3609.80]  to be born again into a living hope,
+[3609.80 --> 3611.42]  and this is how being born again
+[3611.42 --> 3612.26]  into a living hope
+[3612.26 --> 3613.74]  changes you.
+[3615.32 --> 3616.80]  Live such good lives
+[3617.52 --> 3619.24]  among the pagans.
+[3620.12 --> 3620.92]  Now, really quick,
+[3621.02 --> 3621.44]  two things.
+[3622.22 --> 3622.70]  Here, first,
+[3623.32 --> 3624.42]  pagans is,
+[3624.58 --> 3625.06]  again,
+[3625.14 --> 3626.06]  it's another Greek word
+[3626.06 --> 3627.72]  and it's the Greek word ethnos.
+[3627.92 --> 3630.12]  It's from which we get the word ethnicity.
+[3631.50 --> 3631.66]  Right?
+[3631.70 --> 3632.26]  And it means,
+[3632.34 --> 3632.78]  simply,
+[3632.98 --> 3635.22]  nations or people of the world.
+[3635.72 --> 3636.44]  Now, in the Bible,
+[3636.66 --> 3637.34]  when it's used,
+[3637.62 --> 3639.66]  it refers to nations or people
+[3639.66 --> 3641.14]  who don't believe
+[3641.14 --> 3643.72]  in the Judeo-Christian God.
+[3644.78 --> 3645.38]  And so here,
+[3645.52 --> 3646.30]  in this use,
+[3646.70 --> 3648.26]  pagans doesn't have that same
+[3648.26 --> 3650.26]  sort of like naturalist,
+[3650.48 --> 3652.02]  religious connotations
+[3652.02 --> 3653.06]  that it might have
+[3653.06 --> 3654.74]  for some of us here this morning.
+[3655.30 --> 3656.14]  But notice,
+[3657.34 --> 3660.50]  it is still a religious term.
+[3660.86 --> 3660.98]  Right?
+[3661.00 --> 3662.46]  It is about who you believe in
+[3662.46 --> 3663.82]  or don't believe in.
+[3664.06 --> 3666.62]  The context is life lived,
+[3666.78 --> 3668.68]  engaging in and with a society
+[3668.68 --> 3670.16]  of all sorts of people,
+[3670.36 --> 3671.72]  of all sorts of worldviews,
+[3671.76 --> 3673.08]  a society of all sorts of
+[3673.08 --> 3674.54]  religious ideas
+[3674.54 --> 3675.62]  and identities,
+[3676.08 --> 3676.80]  a society
+[3676.80 --> 3679.60]  very much like ours.
+[3681.46 --> 3682.30]  And then second,
+[3682.50 --> 3683.04]  notice this.
+[3684.54 --> 3685.00]  Peter says,
+[3685.12 --> 3687.32]  to live such good lives
+[3687.32 --> 3688.92]  among
+[3688.92 --> 3690.78]  the pagans.
+[3690.78 --> 3695.44]  the proper Christian expectation
+[3695.44 --> 3697.38]  is that you will be
+[3697.38 --> 3698.88]  in the world.
+[3699.70 --> 3701.38]  We live in the midst
+[3701.38 --> 3702.22]  of it all.
+[3702.36 --> 3702.40]  Right?
+[3702.40 --> 3703.08]  We don't run.
+[3703.22 --> 3703.90]  We don't hide.
+[3704.18 --> 3705.04]  We don't pull away.
+[3705.14 --> 3706.16]  We don't get all sectarian.
+[3706.40 --> 3707.60]  We aren't living in secluded
+[3707.60 --> 3708.88]  coisters behind walls
+[3708.88 --> 3709.44]  of division
+[3709.44 --> 3710.70]  and hostility.
+[3711.56 --> 3712.00]  Instead,
+[3713.00 --> 3714.82]  the model that the Bible
+[3714.82 --> 3715.50]  gets us,
+[3715.66 --> 3716.38]  the model that Peter
+[3716.38 --> 3717.82]  picks up for us
+[3717.82 --> 3718.60]  is the same
+[3718.60 --> 3720.48]  as what Jeremiah
+[3720.48 --> 3721.58]  writes
+[3721.58 --> 3723.36]  all those years before
+[3723.36 --> 3724.42]  to the exiles
+[3724.42 --> 3725.44]  in Babylon.
+[3727.10 --> 3728.14]  If you've been around
+[3728.14 --> 3729.04]  since we started
+[3729.04 --> 3730.32]  this series a few weeks ago,
+[3730.54 --> 3731.46]  you will recall
+[3731.46 --> 3732.66]  that we reminded you
+[3732.66 --> 3734.72]  of that exile
+[3734.72 --> 3736.02]  and the stories
+[3736.02 --> 3736.64]  of Daniel,
+[3736.88 --> 3737.54]  of Shadrach,
+[3737.64 --> 3738.14]  of Meshach,
+[3738.22 --> 3738.66]  and Abednego,
+[3738.82 --> 3739.74]  the story of Esther.
+[3740.70 --> 3740.84]  Right?
+[3740.92 --> 3741.56]  They are all
+[3741.56 --> 3743.06]  among the youngest
+[3743.06 --> 3743.66]  Israelites
+[3743.66 --> 3744.88]  who were carried off
+[3744.88 --> 3745.84]  and then in many places
+[3745.84 --> 3746.82]  brought into service
+[3746.82 --> 3747.36]  in the courts
+[3747.36 --> 3747.84]  of the king.
+[3748.68 --> 3748.82]  Now,
+[3748.82 --> 3750.02]  Jeremiah is a prophet
+[3750.02 --> 3751.34]  who is back in Jerusalem.
+[3751.84 --> 3753.34]  He warned of the coming exile
+[3753.34 --> 3754.58]  and he explained
+[3754.58 --> 3755.62]  why it was happening,
+[3755.80 --> 3756.30]  but also,
+[3756.44 --> 3757.04]  what Jeremiah did
+[3757.04 --> 3758.42]  was he wrote a letter
+[3758.42 --> 3759.72]  to the exiles
+[3759.72 --> 3761.18]  in Babylon.
+[3762.32 --> 3763.18]  We have that recorded
+[3763.18 --> 3764.58]  for us in Jeremiah 29.
+[3765.06 --> 3766.26]  This is God's word
+[3766.26 --> 3767.52]  to those who live
+[3767.52 --> 3768.66]  in the sort of circumstances
+[3768.66 --> 3770.24]  that Peter is talking about
+[3770.24 --> 3771.74]  that we live in.
+[3772.60 --> 3773.28]  Jeremiah says,
+[3773.52 --> 3776.84]  this is what the Lord Almighty,
+[3777.02 --> 3777.96]  the God of Israel,
+[3778.16 --> 3779.50]  says to all those
+[3779.50 --> 3781.06]  who I carried into exile
+[3781.06 --> 3781.84]  from Jerusalem
+[3781.84 --> 3783.04]  to Babylon.
+[3783.04 --> 3785.10]  Build houses
+[3785.10 --> 3786.18]  and settle down.
+[3786.84 --> 3787.60]  Plant gardens
+[3787.60 --> 3788.82]  and eat what they produce.
+[3789.10 --> 3790.20]  Marry and have sons
+[3790.20 --> 3790.74]  and daughters.
+[3790.92 --> 3792.18]  Find wives for your sons
+[3792.18 --> 3793.48]  and give your daughters
+[3793.48 --> 3794.02]  in marriage
+[3794.02 --> 3794.82]  so that they too
+[3794.82 --> 3795.56]  may have sons
+[3795.56 --> 3796.08]  and daughters.
+[3796.62 --> 3798.14]  Increase in number there.
+[3798.30 --> 3799.46]  Do not decrease.
+[3800.24 --> 3800.88]  Also,
+[3801.38 --> 3802.30]  seek the peace
+[3802.30 --> 3803.10]  and prosperity
+[3803.10 --> 3804.06]  of the city
+[3804.06 --> 3805.70]  to which I have carried you
+[3805.70 --> 3806.58]  into exile.
+[3807.08 --> 3808.54]  Pray to the Lord for it
+[3808.54 --> 3810.96]  because if it prospers,
+[3811.14 --> 3811.86]  you too
+[3811.86 --> 3813.28]  will prosper.
+[3815.32 --> 3815.96]  So as
+[3815.96 --> 3818.68]  beloved foreigners
+[3818.68 --> 3819.78]  and exiles,
+[3820.52 --> 3820.96]  live
+[3820.96 --> 3821.98]  and work,
+[3822.50 --> 3822.96]  produce,
+[3823.12 --> 3824.38]  produce families,
+[3824.60 --> 3825.84]  set down roots,
+[3826.02 --> 3826.84]  find joy
+[3826.84 --> 3827.62]  and fulfillment
+[3827.62 --> 3828.84]  in your labors.
+[3829.00 --> 3830.18]  Work for the well-being
+[3830.18 --> 3831.40]  of the city
+[3831.40 --> 3832.38]  for its peace
+[3832.38 --> 3834.10]  and its prosperity.
+[3834.72 --> 3835.74]  That's what among
+[3835.74 --> 3837.78]  means for Peter.
+[3838.78 --> 3840.22]  Live such good lives
+[3840.22 --> 3841.90]  among the pagans
+[3841.90 --> 3844.14]  that though they accuse you
+[3844.14 --> 3845.10]  of doing wrong,
+[3846.86 --> 3847.16]  you see,
+[3847.24 --> 3847.80]  this is
+[3847.80 --> 3850.18]  the part that says
+[3850.18 --> 3851.36]  what you do
+[3851.36 --> 3852.14]  in holiness
+[3852.14 --> 3853.52]  to God
+[3853.52 --> 3855.84]  won't make sense.
+[3857.34 --> 3858.28]  Denying yourself
+[3858.28 --> 3859.50]  and taking up your cross
+[3859.50 --> 3861.08]  and following Jesus
+[3861.08 --> 3862.14]  won't make sense
+[3862.14 --> 3863.56]  to those who only know
+[3863.56 --> 3864.24]  the cross
+[3864.24 --> 3865.52]  as folly
+[3865.52 --> 3866.82]  and as a stumbling block.
+[3867.86 --> 3869.62]  In a sex-saturated,
+[3869.76 --> 3870.18]  immediate,
+[3870.34 --> 3872.10]  pleasure-seeking culture,
+[3872.50 --> 3873.42]  Christians actually
+[3873.42 --> 3874.60]  raising the bar
+[3874.60 --> 3875.62]  of sexual purity
+[3875.62 --> 3876.50]  and excellence
+[3876.50 --> 3876.94]  together
+[3876.94 --> 3878.44]  is just weird.
+[3879.72 --> 3880.46]  In a world
+[3880.46 --> 3881.06]  that tells you
+[3881.06 --> 3881.56]  to look out
+[3881.56 --> 3882.26]  for number one,
+[3882.34 --> 3883.70]  to protect yourself
+[3883.70 --> 3884.56]  and then maybe,
+[3884.88 --> 3885.88]  if they deserve it,
+[3885.92 --> 3886.50]  your family,
+[3887.36 --> 3888.44]  sacrificial loving
+[3888.44 --> 3889.14]  of strangers
+[3889.14 --> 3889.84]  and aliens,
+[3890.00 --> 3891.48]  of literal refugees
+[3891.48 --> 3892.78]  is abnormal.
+[3894.30 --> 3895.36]  When we are told
+[3895.36 --> 3895.88]  that the way
+[3895.88 --> 3896.66]  to have peace
+[3896.66 --> 3897.50]  and security
+[3897.50 --> 3898.14]  in the world
+[3898.14 --> 3898.98]  is to exercise
+[3898.98 --> 3899.92]  your power
+[3899.92 --> 3900.72]  and to,
+[3901.02 --> 3902.60]  what's the language,
+[3902.78 --> 3904.34]  to let your light shine,
+[3905.60 --> 3906.86]  Christians who willingly
+[3906.86 --> 3907.98]  give up peace
+[3907.98 --> 3908.82]  and security
+[3908.82 --> 3910.06]  to enter into
+[3910.06 --> 3910.66]  the chaos
+[3910.66 --> 3912.12]  of global mission,
+[3912.52 --> 3914.00]  who reject power
+[3914.00 --> 3914.98]  in order to sit
+[3914.98 --> 3916.22]  and share a meal
+[3916.22 --> 3917.44]  with the marginalized,
+[3918.78 --> 3920.54]  you will look strange.
+[3922.18 --> 3923.00]  And look,
+[3923.86 --> 3926.36]  it's always been this way
+[3926.36 --> 3927.84]  for Christians
+[3927.84 --> 3929.04]  who are properly
+[3929.04 --> 3931.30]  living in this identity.
+[3932.56 --> 3934.68]  There's a Roman historian
+[3934.68 --> 3937.22]  from the second century.
+[3937.50 --> 3938.14]  So this is,
+[3938.14 --> 3938.48]  you know,
+[3938.60 --> 3940.68]  60 or 70 years
+[3940.68 --> 3941.92]  after Peter writes.
+[3942.96 --> 3944.14]  His name is Tacitus.
+[3945.50 --> 3946.74]  And he tells
+[3946.74 --> 3948.52]  in his history
+[3948.52 --> 3949.90]  that Christians
+[3949.90 --> 3951.12]  are, quote,
+[3951.20 --> 3953.26]  hated for their abominations.
+[3954.46 --> 3955.32]  What he means by that
+[3955.32 --> 3957.04]  is that they have upset
+[3957.04 --> 3958.78]  the social order
+[3958.78 --> 3960.54]  by changing
+[3960.54 --> 3962.28]  the sexual ethic.
+[3962.28 --> 3963.14]  They have upset
+[3963.14 --> 3964.10]  the social order
+[3964.10 --> 3967.30]  by redefining gender
+[3967.30 --> 3970.44]  in a more egalitarian perspective,
+[3971.08 --> 3972.60]  redefining the social order
+[3972.60 --> 3973.64]  where slaves
+[3973.64 --> 3975.44]  have become elevated
+[3975.44 --> 3976.22]  and raised up
+[3976.22 --> 3976.82]  as leaders
+[3976.82 --> 3977.46]  in churches
+[3977.46 --> 3978.42]  and communities
+[3978.42 --> 3980.00]  and then are exercising
+[3980.00 --> 3980.62]  authority
+[3980.62 --> 3982.72]  over their earthly masters.
+[3984.16 --> 3985.10]  Tacitus actually
+[3985.10 --> 3986.56]  calls Christians
+[3986.56 --> 3987.62]  and say that he,
+[3987.82 --> 3988.24]  that they,
+[3989.24 --> 3989.26]  quote,
+[3989.26 --> 3990.52]  exercise a deadly
+[3990.52 --> 3991.88]  and dangerous
+[3991.88 --> 3993.24]  superstition.
+[3994.20 --> 3994.68]  And Christians
+[3994.68 --> 3995.08]  even,
+[3995.26 --> 3996.12]  according to Tacitus,
+[3996.68 --> 3998.30]  practice cannibalism.
+[4000.16 --> 4000.64]  Now,
+[4000.68 --> 4001.16]  why do Christians
+[4001.16 --> 4002.20]  practice cannibalism?
+[4003.26 --> 4004.32]  Because of the Lord's Supper.
+[4005.70 --> 4005.92]  Right?
+[4006.02 --> 4006.70]  Jesus said,
+[4006.80 --> 4008.22]  unless you eat my flesh
+[4008.22 --> 4009.22]  and drink my blood.
+[4010.08 --> 4011.34]  And so that went out.
+[4011.38 --> 4012.14]  And that's weird.
+[4012.92 --> 4013.68]  And let's be honest,
+[4013.74 --> 4014.28]  it is.
+[4014.28 --> 4017.16]  If it's not weird to you,
+[4017.66 --> 4019.38]  either you're apathetic
+[4019.38 --> 4019.92]  to it
+[4019.92 --> 4021.66]  or you've been here
+[4021.66 --> 4022.28]  for so long
+[4022.28 --> 4023.10]  that it's just normal
+[4023.10 --> 4024.22]  and praise God for that.
+[4024.54 --> 4025.60]  Because it's weird.
+[4026.42 --> 4027.26]  Christians actually,
+[4027.44 --> 4028.22]  according to Tacitus,
+[4028.42 --> 4030.36]  are charged with atheism.
+[4031.68 --> 4032.82]  The first atheists
+[4032.82 --> 4033.40]  in the world
+[4033.40 --> 4034.32]  are actually Christians.
+[4034.46 --> 4034.66]  Why?
+[4034.92 --> 4035.86]  Because they refuse
+[4035.86 --> 4037.10]  to acknowledge
+[4037.10 --> 4038.10]  the Greek and Roman
+[4038.10 --> 4039.04]  pantheon of gods.
+[4039.14 --> 4039.90]  They refuse to
+[4039.90 --> 4041.02]  worship the emperor
+[4041.02 --> 4042.42]  as an incarnation
+[4042.42 --> 4043.88]  of the divine.
+[4044.28 --> 4048.20]  one of the normal,
+[4048.46 --> 4049.98]  ordinary Roman practices
+[4049.98 --> 4050.74]  in the world
+[4050.74 --> 4051.38]  of that day
+[4051.38 --> 4052.58]  was something called
+[4052.58 --> 4053.56]  infant exposure.
+[4054.22 --> 4056.20]  And this is an atrocious practice,
+[4056.34 --> 4056.84]  but to be honest,
+[4056.88 --> 4057.46]  it's not really
+[4057.46 --> 4058.70]  that far different
+[4058.70 --> 4060.34]  than some cultural practices
+[4060.34 --> 4060.90]  of abortion.
+[4061.92 --> 4062.44]  But the idea
+[4062.44 --> 4063.22]  of infant exposure
+[4063.22 --> 4063.92]  is that
+[4063.92 --> 4066.62]  people would have children
+[4066.62 --> 4067.60]  and they would prefer
+[4067.60 --> 4068.92]  to have boys
+[4068.92 --> 4071.76]  and if they didn't have a boy
+[4071.76 --> 4072.64]  or if they already
+[4072.64 --> 4073.52]  had more children
+[4073.52 --> 4073.94]  than they could
+[4073.94 --> 4074.74]  properly support,
+[4075.10 --> 4075.70]  they would take
+[4075.70 --> 4076.42]  these kids
+[4076.42 --> 4077.26]  who were just born
+[4077.26 --> 4078.04]  as infants
+[4078.04 --> 4078.74]  and they would place
+[4078.74 --> 4079.62]  them in the garbage heap
+[4079.62 --> 4080.44]  outside of the city
+[4080.44 --> 4080.98]  and they would just
+[4080.98 --> 4081.46]  walk away.
+[4083.44 --> 4083.64]  Now,
+[4083.68 --> 4084.44]  that sounds atrocious
+[4084.44 --> 4085.10]  to us,
+[4085.48 --> 4086.66]  but it was perfectly
+[4086.66 --> 4087.64]  normal
+[4087.64 --> 4089.18]  in Roman society
+[4089.18 --> 4091.36]  except for Christians
+[4091.36 --> 4094.08]  who saw that practice
+[4094.08 --> 4094.54]  and said,
+[4094.66 --> 4094.76]  no,
+[4094.82 --> 4096.06]  we're going to make changes.
+[4096.06 --> 4098.16]  And so they would go out
+[4098.16 --> 4099.86]  to the garbage heaps,
+[4100.04 --> 4101.24]  gather up these infants
+[4101.24 --> 4102.10]  and then raise them
+[4102.10 --> 4102.86]  as their own.
+[4103.74 --> 4105.22]  There's actually a story,
+[4105.68 --> 4107.76]  whether it's fully true,
+[4107.82 --> 4108.46]  we can't tell
+[4108.46 --> 4109.22]  based on the history,
+[4109.34 --> 4110.46]  but the shepherd of Hermes
+[4110.46 --> 4111.42]  who became a Christian leader
+[4111.42 --> 4112.10]  in the early church,
+[4112.54 --> 4113.52]  he is thought to have been
+[4113.52 --> 4114.30]  one of these infants
+[4114.30 --> 4115.70]  who were discarded at birth
+[4115.70 --> 4116.80]  and then was raised up
+[4116.80 --> 4117.54]  and became someone
+[4117.54 --> 4118.72]  who wrote and led
+[4118.72 --> 4119.76]  in the church.
+[4120.72 --> 4123.30]  This was absolutely weird
+[4123.30 --> 4125.22]  and abnormal behavior
+[4125.22 --> 4127.00]  and yet it was precisely
+[4127.00 --> 4128.48]  where the Christians
+[4128.48 --> 4129.24]  knew they had to be.
+[4130.00 --> 4131.20]  None of this made sense
+[4131.20 --> 4132.64]  in the world of the day.
+[4133.82 --> 4133.90]  Right?
+[4134.58 --> 4135.92]  It's because Christians
+[4135.92 --> 4138.34]  are accused of ruining society,
+[4139.10 --> 4140.90]  of ruining the normal system.
+[4140.98 --> 4141.46]  And honestly,
+[4141.60 --> 4142.72]  if you could be empathetic to it,
+[4142.74 --> 4143.24]  think about it.
+[4143.80 --> 4146.98]  If you live in a farming community
+[4146.98 --> 4148.72]  outside of the city of Rome,
+[4148.72 --> 4150.98]  you know that the rain comes
+[4150.98 --> 4152.82]  and that plants germinate
+[4152.82 --> 4154.18]  because you have offered
+[4154.18 --> 4155.16]  the right prayers
+[4155.16 --> 4156.52]  to the right gods
+[4156.52 --> 4157.68]  of fertility and growth
+[4157.68 --> 4158.42]  in the right way
+[4158.42 --> 4159.50]  at the right time of year.
+[4160.22 --> 4162.32]  But if one person or family
+[4162.32 --> 4163.62]  in your farming collective
+[4163.62 --> 4164.72]  becomes a Christian
+[4164.72 --> 4166.34]  and then he and his family
+[4166.34 --> 4167.32]  stop worshiping
+[4167.32 --> 4168.46]  these traditional gods
+[4168.46 --> 4170.52]  and then the crop fails
+[4170.52 --> 4172.20]  or insects come
+[4172.20 --> 4173.76]  and destroy everything
+[4173.76 --> 4174.92]  or there is a drought,
+[4175.36 --> 4176.32]  whose fault is it?
+[4177.76 --> 4178.66]  Well, there's only one person
+[4178.66 --> 4179.12]  to blame.
+[4180.32 --> 4181.42]  It's those Christians.
+[4182.76 --> 4182.88]  Right?
+[4182.94 --> 4184.34]  Their belief is dangerous
+[4184.34 --> 4186.54]  to the normal ordering
+[4186.54 --> 4187.52]  of society.
+[4187.68 --> 4188.92]  It's messing with the fabric
+[4188.92 --> 4190.98]  of life and culture.
+[4192.60 --> 4193.74]  I want to ask you,
+[4194.52 --> 4197.72]  is your belief dangerous?
+[4199.50 --> 4201.84]  Is your faith radical?
+[4201.84 --> 4201.92]  biblical?
+[4203.12 --> 4203.66]  Or,
+[4203.90 --> 4206.02]  is God just another tool
+[4206.02 --> 4206.74]  in your bag
+[4206.74 --> 4207.38]  to accomplish
+[4207.38 --> 4208.38]  your prosperity?
+[4210.78 --> 4213.40]  Is church just another community
+[4213.40 --> 4215.52]  where you can be used
+[4215.52 --> 4217.26]  and where you can use others
+[4217.26 --> 4218.06]  to accomplish
+[4218.06 --> 4219.38]  the Canadian dream
+[4219.38 --> 4219.96]  of ease
+[4219.96 --> 4221.18]  and status?
+[4222.78 --> 4224.48]  Live such good lives
+[4224.48 --> 4225.38]  among the pagans
+[4225.38 --> 4226.90]  that though they accuse you
+[4226.90 --> 4227.76]  of doing wrong,
+[4227.76 --> 4229.48]  they may see your good deeds
+[4229.48 --> 4231.34]  and glorify God
+[4231.34 --> 4232.24]  on the day
+[4232.24 --> 4234.40]  he visits us.
+[4235.56 --> 4236.54]  And that's it.
+[4237.36 --> 4239.06]  That's the point of it all.
+[4239.22 --> 4239.34]  Right?
+[4239.40 --> 4240.44]  Why do you abstain
+[4240.44 --> 4241.88]  from sinful desires
+[4241.88 --> 4242.92]  like a warrior?
+[4243.62 --> 4244.68]  Why do you live
+[4244.68 --> 4246.02]  as beloved foreigners
+[4246.02 --> 4247.28]  and exiles?
+[4247.28 --> 4248.54]  Why do you endure
+[4248.54 --> 4249.92]  accusation
+[4249.92 --> 4250.66]  and hardship
+[4250.66 --> 4251.44]  and opposition
+[4251.44 --> 4253.04]  and weirdness
+[4253.04 --> 4254.36]  and peculiarity?
+[4255.94 --> 4257.50]  For the glory
+[4257.50 --> 4259.64]  of God.
+[4260.10 --> 4261.50]  For the glory of God.
+[4261.60 --> 4263.56]  There is no greater reason.
+[4263.72 --> 4265.20]  There is no greater purpose.
+[4266.12 --> 4267.30]  And you've really
+[4267.30 --> 4268.44]  got to believe that.
+[4268.78 --> 4268.92]  Right?
+[4268.96 --> 4270.06]  You've got to be sold
+[4270.06 --> 4270.86]  on the idea
+[4270.86 --> 4271.84]  that God's glory
+[4271.84 --> 4274.48]  really is your greatest joy.
+[4274.70 --> 4275.76]  You've got to buy into
+[4275.76 --> 4277.22]  that hook, line, and sinker.
+[4277.48 --> 4279.56]  That Jesus is your all in all.
+[4279.80 --> 4281.46]  You've got to really believe that.
+[4281.68 --> 4283.18]  Like Paul says in Philippians
+[4283.18 --> 4285.20]  that the traditional markers
+[4285.20 --> 4286.40]  of success and power
+[4286.40 --> 4287.66]  and status in society
+[4287.66 --> 4288.78]  are rubbish,
+[4289.08 --> 4289.58]  are garbage.
+[4289.90 --> 4290.86]  Literally, he says,
+[4290.94 --> 4291.42]  and I'll keep it
+[4291.42 --> 4292.26]  in polite company here,
+[4292.42 --> 4293.66]  he says that they're BS
+[4293.66 --> 4296.68]  compared to the surpassing
+[4296.68 --> 4298.60]  greatness of knowing God.
+[4299.96 --> 4301.60]  It's only when you know God
+[4301.60 --> 4302.36]  that way
+[4302.36 --> 4304.72]  can you live this way.
+[4307.28 --> 4308.44]  And knowing God that way
+[4308.44 --> 4310.42]  only comes one way.
+[4311.34 --> 4312.22]  Peter makes this clear
+[4312.22 --> 4314.06]  in the rest of the chapter.
+[4314.78 --> 4315.54]  We didn't read it,
+[4315.64 --> 4317.46]  but with Bibles before you
+[4317.46 --> 4318.48]  or on the screen,
+[4318.74 --> 4321.64]  look at verse 21.
+[4321.64 --> 4325.86]  To this you were called
+[4325.86 --> 4329.32]  because Christ suffered for you,
+[4329.76 --> 4330.86]  leaving you an example
+[4330.86 --> 4331.74]  that you should follow
+[4331.74 --> 4332.48]  in his steps.
+[4333.22 --> 4334.74]  He committed no sin
+[4334.74 --> 4335.80]  and no deceit
+[4335.80 --> 4337.12]  was found in his mouth.
+[4337.84 --> 4339.58]  When they hurled insults at him,
+[4339.64 --> 4340.64]  he did not retaliate.
+[4341.18 --> 4342.22]  When he suffered,
+[4342.74 --> 4343.88]  he made no threats.
+[4344.96 --> 4345.28]  Instead,
+[4345.68 --> 4347.26]  he entrusted himself
+[4347.26 --> 4349.84]  to him who judges justly.
+[4351.68 --> 4352.76]  He bore himself,
+[4352.96 --> 4354.92]  he himself bore our sins
+[4354.92 --> 4356.60]  in his body on the cross
+[4356.60 --> 4359.12]  so that we might die to sins
+[4359.12 --> 4361.22]  and live for righteousness.
+[4362.32 --> 4364.04]  By his wounds,
+[4364.14 --> 4365.18]  you have been healed.
+[4366.86 --> 4368.74]  For you were like sheep
+[4368.74 --> 4369.64]  going astray,
+[4370.38 --> 4371.88]  but now you have returned
+[4371.88 --> 4372.56]  to the shepherd
+[4372.56 --> 4374.16]  and overseer
+[4374.16 --> 4375.64]  of your souls.
+[4380.18 --> 4383.02]  He himself bore our sins
+[4383.02 --> 4384.72]  in his body
+[4384.72 --> 4386.10]  on the cross
+[4386.10 --> 4389.22]  so that we might die to sins
+[4389.22 --> 4392.04]  and live for righteousness.
+[4394.26 --> 4397.30]  The way to have relationship
+[4397.30 --> 4398.34]  with God,
+[4398.44 --> 4399.40]  the way to live
+[4399.40 --> 4400.40]  in the manner
+[4400.40 --> 4402.06]  that God has called you to live
+[4402.06 --> 4403.20]  and is equipping you to live
+[4403.20 --> 4405.50]  is to see Jesus.
+[4406.70 --> 4408.12]  To see that he has lived
+[4408.12 --> 4409.34]  the life I should have lived
+[4409.34 --> 4411.02]  and that by his grace,
+[4411.16 --> 4412.58]  he grants me
+[4412.58 --> 4414.02]  somehow in this
+[4414.02 --> 4415.80]  great divine exchange
+[4415.80 --> 4417.14]  his righteousness
+[4417.14 --> 4418.84]  and that that exchange
+[4418.84 --> 4421.34]  also takes my sin
+[4421.34 --> 4422.10]  and the punishment
+[4422.10 --> 4423.60]  that I deserve for that
+[4423.60 --> 4424.88]  and puts it on him
+[4424.88 --> 4426.12]  so that on the cross,
+[4426.56 --> 4427.92]  he bears it
+[4427.92 --> 4429.96]  in my place.
+[4431.22 --> 4432.12]  He lived the life
+[4432.12 --> 4432.90]  I should have lived
+[4432.90 --> 4433.92]  and died the death
+[4433.92 --> 4435.28]  that I deserve
+[4435.28 --> 4437.64]  so that by his grace
+[4437.64 --> 4438.96]  we might live
+[4438.96 --> 4440.50]  in righteousness
+[4440.50 --> 4442.28]  with him.
+[4447.08 --> 4448.88]  Notice here.
+[4450.46 --> 4451.78]  Not only does Jesus
+[4451.78 --> 4453.76]  accomplish this identity
+[4453.76 --> 4457.26]  and give it to you,
+[4457.26 --> 4459.28]  but then he is also
+[4459.28 --> 4461.90]  held up as our example.
+[4463.24 --> 4464.64]  He's held up as
+[4464.64 --> 4466.58]  the one whom we are
+[4466.58 --> 4467.46]  to mirror
+[4467.46 --> 4468.90]  in the world
+[4468.90 --> 4470.82]  and in our relationships.
+[4472.88 --> 4474.64]  And in this section here,
+[4475.30 --> 4476.64]  Peter highlights
+[4476.64 --> 4479.76]  three key relationships
+[4479.76 --> 4483.20]  wherein you can reflect
+[4483.20 --> 4486.18]  this gospel truth.
+[4486.18 --> 4489.54]  we read the first
+[4489.54 --> 4490.42]  relationship,
+[4490.92 --> 4491.08]  right?
+[4491.14 --> 4493.02]  The civic relationship
+[4493.02 --> 4494.68]  in verse 13 through 17.
+[4495.44 --> 4495.54]  Right?
+[4495.66 --> 4496.26]  Submit yourselves
+[4496.26 --> 4496.98]  to the Lord's sake
+[4496.98 --> 4498.36]  for every human authority,
+[4498.50 --> 4499.38]  whether to the emperor
+[4499.38 --> 4500.68]  as supreme authority
+[4500.68 --> 4501.54]  or to the governors.
+[4501.68 --> 4502.14]  Verse 17,
+[4502.28 --> 4503.20]  show proper respect
+[4503.20 --> 4503.96]  to everyone.
+[4504.48 --> 4505.06]  Love the family
+[4505.06 --> 4505.66]  of believers.
+[4505.92 --> 4506.50]  Fear God
+[4506.50 --> 4508.34]  and honor the emperor.
+[4510.22 --> 4510.70]  Now,
+[4511.70 --> 4512.42]  again,
+[4512.80 --> 4513.68]  real quick,
+[4513.68 --> 4514.90]  in case you
+[4514.90 --> 4516.02]  don't know this,
+[4516.12 --> 4518.84]  but two or four years
+[4518.84 --> 4519.80]  after Peter
+[4519.80 --> 4521.52]  writes this letter,
+[4522.78 --> 4523.24]  Nero,
+[4524.42 --> 4525.46]  historians say,
+[4525.76 --> 4527.14]  starts to lose his mind
+[4527.14 --> 4528.72]  and he starts
+[4528.72 --> 4530.34]  killing Christians,
+[4530.92 --> 4531.54]  burning them
+[4531.54 --> 4532.60]  at the stake.
+[4534.32 --> 4535.52]  He was emperor
+[4535.52 --> 4536.62]  when Peter said,
+[4537.62 --> 4540.48]  submit yourselves
+[4540.48 --> 4541.78]  for the Lord's sake
+[4541.78 --> 4543.06]  to every human authority.
+[4544.52 --> 4545.14]  Fear God,
+[4545.80 --> 4547.10]  honor the emperor.
+[4551.58 --> 4553.12]  One of the ways
+[4553.12 --> 4554.28]  that we,
+[4554.82 --> 4555.82]  as Christians,
+[4556.08 --> 4557.46]  might look weird
+[4557.46 --> 4560.04]  is by honoring
+[4560.04 --> 4561.92]  the civic authorities
+[4561.92 --> 4563.62]  that are placed
+[4563.62 --> 4564.22]  in our midst.
+[4565.46 --> 4565.84]  Now,
+[4565.88 --> 4566.26]  I get that
+[4566.26 --> 4567.22]  that has to be careful
+[4567.22 --> 4568.20]  and that some of you
+[4568.20 --> 4569.02]  are going to push back
+[4569.02 --> 4569.24]  and say,
+[4569.32 --> 4569.36]  well,
+[4569.36 --> 4570.02]  what if they call me
+[4570.02 --> 4570.86]  into disobedience
+[4570.86 --> 4571.76]  and call me into sin
+[4571.76 --> 4572.60]  and so on and so forth?
+[4574.66 --> 4575.50]  I'm happy to have
+[4575.50 --> 4576.52]  that discerning conversation
+[4576.52 --> 4577.00]  with you.
+[4577.52 --> 4578.80]  But the starting point
+[4578.80 --> 4581.26]  has to be
+[4581.26 --> 4582.98]  submit yourselves
+[4582.98 --> 4584.04]  for the Lord's sake.
+[4585.20 --> 4586.38]  Is that your starting point?
+[4586.70 --> 4587.34]  Because that's what
+[4587.34 --> 4589.00]  a witness looks like.
+[4589.06 --> 4590.44]  That's what a living example
+[4590.44 --> 4591.46]  looks like.
+[4592.10 --> 4592.80]  The next one there
+[4592.80 --> 4593.12]  is,
+[4593.62 --> 4595.48]  it's referred to
+[4595.48 --> 4596.72]  directly as slaves,
+[4596.84 --> 4599.08]  verse 18 through 20 there.
+[4599.08 --> 4600.32]  Slaves in reverent fear
+[4600.32 --> 4600.80]  submit,
+[4601.64 --> 4602.46]  reverent fear of God,
+[4602.56 --> 4603.40]  submit yourselves
+[4603.40 --> 4604.54]  to your masters.
+[4605.80 --> 4607.18]  But there's a bigger context
+[4607.18 --> 4608.64]  in which we can understand this.
+[4608.72 --> 4608.82]  Now,
+[4609.22 --> 4610.24]  I want to be really clear
+[4610.24 --> 4611.00]  about two things.
+[4611.12 --> 4611.30]  One,
+[4611.76 --> 4613.48]  slavery in the Roman Empire
+[4613.48 --> 4615.12]  is not the same
+[4615.12 --> 4616.60]  as the sort of
+[4616.60 --> 4617.68]  racist,
+[4618.00 --> 4619.12]  chattel slavery
+[4619.12 --> 4621.46]  that we are familiar with
+[4621.46 --> 4622.24]  in American
+[4622.24 --> 4623.54]  and Canadian history.
+[4624.04 --> 4625.18]  It is not the same,
+[4625.26 --> 4626.42]  but it's not so different
+[4626.42 --> 4627.50]  as to just be okay.
+[4627.50 --> 4628.46]  Right?
+[4628.50 --> 4629.40]  It's still slavery,
+[4629.62 --> 4632.54]  but it is part of the
+[4632.54 --> 4635.38]  ordinary economic life
+[4635.38 --> 4637.02]  of the empire.
+[4637.46 --> 4638.96]  And people would willingly
+[4638.96 --> 4640.34]  sell themselves
+[4640.34 --> 4641.20]  into slavery
+[4641.20 --> 4642.44]  in order to pay down a debt
+[4642.44 --> 4643.10]  or in order to
+[4643.10 --> 4644.12]  free someone
+[4644.12 --> 4644.82]  or in order to
+[4644.82 --> 4645.96]  get the charity
+[4645.96 --> 4647.36]  of a particular patron
+[4647.36 --> 4648.78]  or a well-to-do person
+[4648.78 --> 4649.32]  in society
+[4649.32 --> 4649.94]  so that they could
+[4649.94 --> 4651.04]  advance their station.
+[4652.24 --> 4652.36]  Right?
+[4652.36 --> 4653.76]  There's lots of accounts
+[4653.76 --> 4655.22]  actually of slaves
+[4655.22 --> 4658.08]  having received
+[4658.08 --> 4659.40]  their freedom
+[4659.40 --> 4661.40]  and then entering
+[4661.40 --> 4663.14]  into the Senate,
+[4663.40 --> 4663.86]  for instance,
+[4664.00 --> 4665.04]  in the Roman world.
+[4667.32 --> 4668.50]  And so really,
+[4668.72 --> 4669.30]  I think,
+[4669.72 --> 4670.60]  maybe the best way
+[4670.60 --> 4671.58]  to understand this
+[4671.58 --> 4672.62]  is as it pertains
+[4672.62 --> 4674.92]  to our economic life,
+[4675.32 --> 4676.66]  as it pertains
+[4676.66 --> 4679.08]  to your vocational life.
+[4680.12 --> 4681.80]  The way you work,
+[4682.12 --> 4683.50]  the way you respect
+[4683.50 --> 4684.22]  your boss
+[4684.22 --> 4686.20]  or the way you be a boss,
+[4686.36 --> 4688.46]  the way you do
+[4688.46 --> 4690.88]  the tasks that are set out
+[4690.88 --> 4691.44]  for you
+[4691.44 --> 4692.64]  is an opportunity
+[4692.64 --> 4695.26]  to be a living example,
+[4695.26 --> 4696.38]  is an opportunity
+[4696.38 --> 4697.32]  to proclaim
+[4697.32 --> 4699.82]  the truth of God.
+[4699.82 --> 4703.18]  And then finally,
+[4703.74 --> 4706.16]  in chapter 3,
+[4706.68 --> 4707.80]  the first seven verses,
+[4708.82 --> 4710.76]  there's a holding out
+[4710.76 --> 4712.34]  of married life
+[4712.34 --> 4715.78]  as a place to be,
+[4716.16 --> 4717.76]  as a place to be
+[4717.76 --> 4718.54]  as an example.
+[4719.12 --> 4719.78]  Particularly,
+[4720.56 --> 4722.26]  in the first section there,
+[4722.34 --> 4722.82]  for women
+[4722.82 --> 4724.50]  who are submitting themselves
+[4724.50 --> 4725.42]  to the husbands,
+[4725.76 --> 4726.62]  and you hear that,
+[4726.70 --> 4727.64]  just to the husband,
+[4727.64 --> 4727.98]  okay?
+[4728.68 --> 4729.76]  But particularly,
+[4729.82 --> 4731.56]  to unbelieving husbands,
+[4731.98 --> 4733.90]  so that even if they
+[4733.90 --> 4735.20]  don't hear the words,
+[4735.30 --> 4736.24]  they might be won over
+[4736.24 --> 4737.44]  by the behavior
+[4737.44 --> 4738.94]  of their wives.
+[4739.76 --> 4739.94]  Right?
+[4740.00 --> 4741.48]  There's an opportunity
+[4741.48 --> 4744.02]  in our marriage relationships
+[4744.02 --> 4745.10]  to model
+[4745.10 --> 4746.86]  the gospel of Jesus
+[4746.86 --> 4748.64]  in incredibly beautiful
+[4748.64 --> 4750.86]  and powerful ways.
+[4752.10 --> 4753.50]  This is what it means
+[4753.50 --> 4755.48]  to be living examples,
+[4755.84 --> 4756.72]  beloved of God,
+[4756.72 --> 4757.16]  foreigners,
+[4758.04 --> 4758.78]  and exiles.
+[4758.78 --> 4760.08]  Now notice carefully
+[4760.08 --> 4762.06]  that I've just introduced
+[4762.06 --> 4762.84]  those to you.
+[4763.40 --> 4763.96]  I haven't told you
+[4763.96 --> 4764.48]  how to do it.
+[4765.40 --> 4766.50]  That's your job.
+[4766.50 --> 4771.00]  So in your civic life,
+[4771.34 --> 4773.30]  in your economic life,
+[4773.30 --> 4775.00]  in your communal life,
+[4775.58 --> 4777.12]  how will you be
+[4777.12 --> 4779.10]  a living example?
+[4780.46 --> 4781.40]  My prayer for you
+[4781.40 --> 4781.96]  is that you are
+[4781.96 --> 4783.38]  so captivated
+[4783.38 --> 4784.84]  by the glory of God
+[4784.84 --> 4786.00]  and the gospel of Jesus
+[4786.00 --> 4787.56]  that this just oozes
+[4787.56 --> 4788.90]  out of you.
+[4790.44 --> 4791.02]  And yet,
+[4791.08 --> 4791.96]  I know it's going to be hard.
+[4791.96 --> 4794.36]  And I know that we're
+[4794.36 --> 4795.00]  going to stumble
+[4795.00 --> 4796.74]  and we're going to fall
+[4796.74 --> 4798.02]  and we're going to struggle
+[4798.02 --> 4799.32]  in doing this.
+[4799.42 --> 4800.56]  And many of us,
+[4800.56 --> 4803.06]  like my 13-year-old self,
+[4803.14 --> 4804.38]  are not going to like
+[4804.38 --> 4805.52]  being weird.
+[4807.60 --> 4808.62]  But here's the thing.
+[4810.08 --> 4811.96]  When we are all weird together,
+[4812.58 --> 4814.20]  it's not really that weird.
+[4815.90 --> 4816.38]  Right?
+[4816.44 --> 4817.24]  When we are all
+[4817.24 --> 4819.30]  foreigners and aliens together,
+[4819.30 --> 4819.36]  together,
+[4819.86 --> 4821.64]  we do have a community.
+[4822.16 --> 4823.16]  We do have a place.
+[4823.64 --> 4824.64]  We do have a family
+[4824.64 --> 4827.38]  whereby we can be encouraged
+[4827.38 --> 4829.42]  as living examples.
+[4830.82 --> 4831.74]  And so this week,
+[4831.82 --> 4832.34]  as you go,
+[4832.70 --> 4834.18]  be those living examples
+[4834.18 --> 4837.16]  and then come back
+[4837.16 --> 4839.60]  so we can hear about it.
+[4840.24 --> 4841.64]  Come back so we can share it.
+[4841.72 --> 4842.66]  Come back so we can offer
+[4842.66 --> 4843.74]  encouragement and prayer
+[4843.74 --> 4845.18]  and struggle and tears
+[4845.18 --> 4846.04]  and crying
+[4846.04 --> 4850.82]  because we are living examples.
+[4851.44 --> 4851.70]  Amen?
+[4852.90 --> 4853.86]  Let's pray together.
+[4860.32 --> 4861.22]  Lord our God,
+[4861.98 --> 4863.54]  send us out now
+[4863.54 --> 4865.20]  in the power of your word
+[4865.20 --> 4867.70]  by the working of your Holy Spirit.
+[4867.86 --> 4868.80]  Send us out now
+[4868.80 --> 4870.82]  captivated and convicted
+[4870.82 --> 4872.78]  by the truth of the gospel.
+[4872.78 --> 4873.90]  Send us out now
+[4873.90 --> 4875.72]  our hearts stirred
+[4875.72 --> 4877.34]  having seen your glory
+[4877.34 --> 4878.92]  and our imaginations
+[4878.92 --> 4880.00]  for how we might
+[4880.00 --> 4883.16]  serve you invigorated.
+[4885.80 --> 4886.94]  Send us out
+[4886.94 --> 4888.86]  so that we might be
+[4888.86 --> 4890.74]  living examples.
+[4892.44 --> 4893.52]  Send us out
+[4893.52 --> 4894.80]  so that we might live
+[4894.80 --> 4896.06]  such good lives
+[4896.06 --> 4896.96]  among the pagans
+[4896.96 --> 4899.04]  that though they accuse us
+[4899.04 --> 4899.66]  of doing wrong,
+[4900.36 --> 4902.02]  they may see your good deeds,
+[4902.02 --> 4904.04]  see our good deeds,
+[4904.38 --> 4906.12]  and glorify you
+[4906.12 --> 4907.76]  on the day you visit.
+[4908.28 --> 4909.50]  In your name we pray.
+[4910.38 --> 4910.94]  Amen.
+[4910.94 --> 4911.04]  Amen.
+[4932.02 --> 4950.06]  Take my life and let it be
+[4950.06 --> 4951.84]  constant,
+[4951.90 --> 4952.52]  great,
+[4952.52 --> 4955.26]  and Lord to thee.
+[4955.72 --> 4958.02]  Take my moments
+[4958.02 --> 4960.88]  and my days,
+[4960.88 --> 4963.20]  let them flow
+[4963.20 --> 4966.32]  in endless praise.
+[4966.32 --> 4968.68]  Let them flow
+[4968.68 --> 4971.32]  in endless praise.
+[4975.32 --> 4978.20]  Take my hands
+[4978.20 --> 4981.16]  and let them move
+[4981.16 --> 4984.26]  at the impulse
+[4984.26 --> 4986.56]  of thy love.
+[4987.02 --> 4989.02]  Take my feet
+[4989.02 --> 4991.34]  and let them be
+[4991.34 --> 4994.46]  swift and beautiful
+[4994.46 --> 4997.34]  for thee.
+[4997.34 --> 5000.54]  Swift and beautiful
+[5000.54 --> 5002.74]  for thee.
+[5005.30 --> 5008.56]  Take the noise
+[5008.56 --> 5011.80]  and let me sing
+[5011.80 --> 5013.46]  always,
+[5013.46 --> 5018.34]  only for my King.
+[5018.34 --> 5021.66]  take my lips
+[5021.66 --> 5025.66]  and let them be
+[5025.66 --> 5029.82]  filled with messages
+[5029.82 --> 5032.66]  from thee.
+[5032.66 --> 5037.72]  Filled with messages
+[5037.72 --> 5040.66]  from thee.
+[5040.66 --> 5047.98]  take my love
+[5047.98 --> 5048.98]  and let them be
+[5048.98 --> 5049.98]  for me.
+[5049.98 --> 5050.98]  Take my love,
+[5050.98 --> 5051.98]  my Lord,
+[5051.98 --> 5052.98]  I pour
+[5052.98 --> 5053.98]  that thy feet
+[5053.98 --> 5055.98]  its treasure
+[5055.98 --> 5056.98]  soar.
+[5056.98 --> 5059.98]  Take myself
+[5059.98 --> 5063.98]  and I will be
+[5063.98 --> 5065.30]  never,
+[5065.30 --> 5066.30]  never,
+[5066.30 --> 5067.30]  never,
+[5067.30 --> 5068.30]  only,
+[5068.30 --> 5070.30]  all for thee.
+[5070.30 --> 5072.30]  Never,
+[5072.30 --> 5073.30]  only,
+[5073.30 --> 5077.30]  all for thee.
+[5077.30 --> 5099.12]  as you go
+[5099.12 --> 5100.22]  this week,
+[5100.44 --> 5101.90]  go as living
+[5101.90 --> 5102.44]  examples
+[5102.44 --> 5104.02]  of the gospel
+[5104.02 --> 5105.08]  of grace
+[5105.08 --> 5105.70]  and go
+[5105.70 --> 5106.80]  in the power
+[5106.80 --> 5107.64]  of God
+[5107.64 --> 5108.30]  who goes
+[5108.30 --> 5109.20]  with you.
+[5109.60 --> 5110.66]  Go with his
+[5110.66 --> 5111.70]  blessing.
+[5113.44 --> 5114.36]  May God
+[5114.36 --> 5115.14]  go before you
+[5115.14 --> 5116.18]  to lead you.
+[5116.88 --> 5117.38]  May God
+[5117.38 --> 5118.34]  go behind you
+[5118.34 --> 5119.32]  to guard you.
+[5120.44 --> 5121.00]  May God
+[5121.00 --> 5122.18]  go beneath you
+[5122.18 --> 5123.48]  to support you.
+[5124.16 --> 5124.70]  May God
+[5124.70 --> 5125.70]  go beside you
+[5125.70 --> 5126.86]  to befriend you.
+[5127.84 --> 5128.42]  Do not
+[5128.42 --> 5129.90]  be afraid.
+[5130.50 --> 5131.06]  Let the blessing
+[5131.06 --> 5131.44]  of God
+[5131.44 --> 5132.02]  come upon you
+[5132.02 --> 5132.28]  today.
+[5132.38 --> 5133.70]  Do not be afraid
+[5133.70 --> 5134.60]  but go
+[5134.60 --> 5135.82]  in peace
+[5135.82 --> 5137.08]  as living
+[5137.08 --> 5137.82]  examples
+[5137.82 --> 5139.02]  to love
+[5139.02 --> 5140.06]  and serve
+[5140.06 --> 5140.88]  the Lord.
+[5142.10 --> 5142.78]  Amen.
+[5155.70 --> 5169.62]  These are the days
+[5169.62 --> 5170.94]  of Elijah
+[5170.94 --> 5174.48]  declaring the word
+[5174.48 --> 5175.74]  of the Lord
+[5175.74 --> 5179.38]  and these are the days
+[5179.38 --> 5180.90]  of your servant
+[5180.90 --> 5181.84]  Moses
+[5181.84 --> 5183.06]  as precious
+[5183.06 --> 5185.48]  as being restored.
+[5187.00 --> 5188.24]  And though these
+[5188.24 --> 5189.00]  are days
+[5189.00 --> 5191.00]  of great trials
+[5191.00 --> 5192.76]  of famine
+[5192.76 --> 5194.02]  and darkness
+[5194.02 --> 5195.56]  and storm
+[5195.56 --> 5198.00]  still we are
+[5198.00 --> 5198.82]  the voice
+[5198.82 --> 5200.24]  in the desert
+[5200.24 --> 5201.30]  crying
+[5201.30 --> 5202.48]  preparing
+[5202.48 --> 5203.66]  the way
+[5203.66 --> 5204.96]  of the Lord.
+[5205.34 --> 5206.30]  The holy
+[5206.30 --> 5207.60]  comes
+[5207.60 --> 5209.12]  riding on the
+[5209.12 --> 5210.04]  clouds
+[5210.04 --> 5211.40]  shining like
+[5211.40 --> 5212.30]  sun
+[5212.30 --> 5213.40]  at the
+[5213.40 --> 5213.86]  trumpet
+[5213.86 --> 5215.40]  called
+[5215.40 --> 5217.26]  with your voice
+[5217.26 --> 5219.62]  nearer to believe
+[5219.62 --> 5220.54]  and now
+[5220.54 --> 5221.22]  desire
+[5221.22 --> 5223.34]  till salvation
+[5223.34 --> 5224.40]  comes.
+[5232.40 --> 5234.40]  And these are
+[5234.40 --> 5235.30]  the days
+[5235.30 --> 5236.40]  of Ezekiel
+[5236.40 --> 5239.24]  the dry bones
+[5239.24 --> 5240.14]  becoming
+[5240.14 --> 5241.70]  as much
+[5241.70 --> 5243.70]  and these
+[5243.70 --> 5244.94]  are the days
+[5244.94 --> 5246.56]  of your servant
+[5246.56 --> 5247.46]  David
+[5247.46 --> 5248.66]  rebuilding
+[5248.66 --> 5249.92]  a temple
+[5249.92 --> 5251.14]  of bread
+[5251.14 --> 5253.42]  and these
+[5253.42 --> 5254.64]  are the days
+[5254.64 --> 5255.98]  of the harvest
+[5255.98 --> 5258.30]  the fields
+[5258.30 --> 5259.52]  are as white
+[5259.52 --> 5261.68]  in your world
+[5261.68 --> 5263.56]  and we are
+[5263.56 --> 5265.14]  the laborers
+[5265.14 --> 5266.24]  in your vineyard
+[5266.24 --> 5267.24]  declaring
+[5267.24 --> 5268.24]  declaring
+[5268.24 --> 5269.24]  the word
+[5269.24 --> 5270.56]  of the Lord.
+[5270.94 --> 5271.24]  Behold
+[5271.24 --> 5273.24]  he comes
+[5273.24 --> 5274.14]  crying
+[5274.14 --> 5275.62]  on the clouds
+[5275.62 --> 5277.10]  shining like
+[5277.10 --> 5278.04]  the sun
+[5278.04 --> 5279.56]  at the trumpet
+[5279.56 --> 5280.24]  call
+[5280.24 --> 5282.98]  lift your voice
+[5282.98 --> 5285.36]  hear up to believe
+[5285.36 --> 5286.34]  and now
+[5286.34 --> 5287.02]  let's die
+[5287.02 --> 5289.14]  until salvation
+[5289.14 --> 5290.24]  comes.
+[5290.24 --> 5295.64]  There is no God
+[5295.64 --> 5296.94]  like Jehovah
+[5296.94 --> 5298.44]  there is no God
+[5298.44 --> 5299.54]  like Jehovah
+[5299.54 --> 5301.40]  there is no God
+[5301.40 --> 5302.00]  like Jehovah
+[5302.00 --> 5303.44]  there is no God
+[5303.44 --> 5304.46]  like Jehovah
+[5304.46 --> 5305.96]  there is no God
+[5305.96 --> 5306.96]  like Jehovah
+[5306.96 --> 5308.38]  there is no God
+[5308.38 --> 5309.46]  like Jehovah
+[5309.46 --> 5311.32]  behold
+[5311.32 --> 5312.94]  he comes
+[5312.94 --> 5315.22]  shining on the clouds
+[5315.22 --> 5317.54]  shining like the sun
+[5317.54 --> 5319.10]  at the trumpet
+[5319.10 --> 5320.00]  call
+[5320.00 --> 5322.40]  lift your voice
+[5322.40 --> 5324.78]  hear up to believe
+[5324.78 --> 5325.78]  and now
+[5325.78 --> 5327.10]  on science hill
+[5327.10 --> 5328.50]  salvation
+[5328.50 --> 5329.78]  comes
+[5329.78 --> 5330.78]  behold
+[5330.78 --> 5332.34]  he comes
+[5332.34 --> 5334.68]  riding on the clouds
+[5334.68 --> 5337.00]  shining like the sun
+[5337.00 --> 5338.44]  at the trumpet
+[5338.44 --> 5339.64]  call
+[5339.64 --> 5341.74]  lift your voice
+[5341.74 --> 5343.84]  it's year up to believe
+[5343.84 --> 5345.04]  and now
+[5345.04 --> 5346.32]  on science hill
+[5346.32 --> 5347.68]  salvation
+[5347.68 --> 5349.08]  comes
+[5349.08 --> 5349.92]  down
+[5349.92 --> 5351.36]  on science hill
+[5351.36 --> 5353.08]  salvation
+[5353.08 --> 5355.08]  comes
+[5355.08 --> 5356.26]  comes
+[5356.26 --> 5358.90]  un...,
+[5361.90 --> 5362.08]  and
+[5362.08 --> 5363.26]  he
+[5363.26 --> 5363.54]  goes
+[5363.54 --> 5393.52]  Thank you.
+[5393.54 --> 5423.52]  Thank you.
+[5423.54 --> 5453.52]  Thank you.
+[5453.54 --> 5455.54]  Thank you.
+[5483.54 --> 5485.54]  Thank you.
+[5513.54 --> 5515.54]  Thank you.

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+• Fighting internal struggles and negative thoughts
+• Referring to a biblical story (city on a green piece, cross)
+• Themes of surrender, letting go, and being held by God
+• Emphasis on not being alone and God's presence in times of struggle
+• Reference to the crucifixion and resurrection of Jesus Christ
+• Introduction to a worship service with announcements and explanations
+• Meeting in a small group to discuss care groups and hosting
+• Reformation Day and its significance, marked on October 31st
+• Martin Luther's posting of the 95 theses against the Roman Catholic Church
+• Key principles of the Reformation: sola scriptura, justification by faith alone, and the material principle
+• Worship service planned with Reformation themes in mind
+• Classic songs and doctrines reinterpreted for a new setting
+• Reference to a movie or person named Trevor
+• Discussion of faithfulness, mercy, and God's goodness
+• Repetition of phrases such as "Great is your faithfulness" and "God is good"
+• Theme of Christ being one's hope in life and death
+• Discussion of the love of Christ and its presence in believers' lives
+• Reference to an offering for budget purposes
+• Financial need to support church ministries and programs
+• Importance of giving generously and sacrificially during the last two months of the year
+• Reference to 2 Corinthians 9:7 about cheerful giving
+• Introduction of a guest, Hank, who is shy but wants to meet the kids
+• Interaction with kids from the church, asking them about their interests and activities
+• Review of previous week's activities
+• Introduction to Abraham and his son in the day's lesson
+• Hank's absence from children's worship for four months
+• Discovery of a rock collection in the hole Hank dug
+• Explanation of Reformation Day and gratitude for church and Bible
+• The group prays for God's presence and guidance
+• They pray for the church family to learn about the Bible and its impact on their lives
+• A children's blessing is given, followed by a goodbye to Hank the Hound puppet
+• A church family prayer is led, focusing on praising God, seeking His glory, and being used as answers to prayers
+• The group prays for transformation through the Holy Spirit and draws closer to God in His presence.
+• Restoration of relationships
+• Praying for broken places and people in life
+• Requesting gospel healing and reconciliation
+• Seeking humility and willingness to have deep conversations
+• Understanding and coming to a new understanding of God's actions
+• Salvation through faith alone in Christ
+• Prayer for those who don't know God or are searching for something more
+• Praying for peace and calm in places affected by turmoil and war
+• Asking God to bring strength, food, and rain to areas experiencing famine and drought
+• Requesting wisdom and integrity from global leaders addressing climate change
+• Seeking a bigger response to the challenges facing humanity, accompanied by awareness of what needs to be done
+• Modeling responsible stewardship as Christians
+• Continuing in prayer for those dealing with health issues, including COVID-19 and other concerns
+• Praying for healing for those in need
+• Offering comfort and compassion to those mourning or struggling with anxiety
+• Asking God to be near to those experiencing ongoing health concerns
+• Prayer for protection and peace during a community event
+• Discussion of audio issues with the live stream
+• Announcement of continuing a series in 1st Peter and doing things differently that morning
+• Saving the reading of the text from 1st Peter until later in the service
+• Introduction to the book of 1st Peter, chapter 3
+• The context in which Peter was writing: early Christian communities in Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia (modern-day Turkey)
+• Peter's audience: a group of Christians who were converts from Judaism in the 40s-50s AD
+• Geographic location: modern-day Turkey
+• Peter's message to the churches: they are elect exiles
+• The apostle Paul wrote letters to various churches, including Ephesians, Galatians, and Colossians.
+• These churches are located in the same region as the church being addressed in the text.
+• Paul spent most of his missionary journeys in this region except for one journey to Rome.
+• Paul is near the end of his life when he writes a second letter to Timothy, who is in Ephesus.
+• The situation with the churches in the region is dire, as everyone has deserted them and they are facing hardship and persecution.
+• Blending in with one's culture can be safer than standing out
+• Early Christians were leaving their faith due to hardship and false teachers
+• Rome was actively trying to colonize and bring regions under its control
+• History is often thought of as a static time, but it is actually more dynamic
+• Many people think of history or scripture as being "written in stone", rather than evolving over time
+• The western part of the world has different rules and norms than Asia and Bithynia.
+• These regions have been Romanized, with Rome taking control in 133 BC and Augustus making Galatia a province in 62 AD.
+• Pontus was also brought under full Roman colonial control by Polman II, who later abdicated.
+• The Roman Parthian Wars occurred from 53 BC to 217 AD, featuring conflicts that changed borders, names, and boundaries.
+• Global conflicts and wars
+• Christian attempts to adapt to changing world
+• Cultural clashes and imperialism
+• Rewriting of histories
+• Parallels drawn with past events (WWII, Cold War)
+• Red Scare and communist infiltration fears in the 1950s
+• Ideological threat of communism and nuclear destruction
+• Reciting the Pledge of Allegiance
+• Practicing duck and cover drills in Canada during the Cold War era
+• Development of a new national flag in 1965
+• Publication of a Civil Defense Evacuation and Survival Plan pamphlet for the Greater Vancouver area
+• Unifying around shared identity and allegiance in times of war or cultural clash
+• Peter's letter to elect exiles, emphasizing their status as God's chosen people
+• Cultural identity and belonging in Pontus, Galatia, Bithynia
+• Peter's message of a third way between Romanization and traditional ways
+• Contemporary culture's emphasis on individualism and self-creation
+• The secularization and disenchantment of the world
+• The rise of new spirituality and interest in non-traditional practices (crystals, star charts, rituals, hallucinogenic drugs)
+• Critique of modern institutions and search for meaning beyond traditional religion
+• Hallucinogenic drugs becoming accepted as medicine
+• New generation of spirituality and naturalism emerging
+• Cultural trend towards progressive ideology vs counter-trend of alt-right and social conservatives
+• Christians caught in the middle with progressive Christianity vs conservative Christianity co-opted by nationalism and white supremacy
+• Call to choose between new way or old way, with Peter's message for a "third way" that is uniquely Christian
+• The importance of seeking peace and pursuing it
+• God's favor towards the righteous and his attention to their prayers
+• Warning against evil and its consequences
+• Encouragement to do good and suffer for what is right
+• Living in harmony with others as believers, being like-minded and sympathetic
+• Love one another, treating each other as brothers and sisters in Christ
+• The importance of treating each other with compassion and being well-disposed towards one another
+• Peter's emphasis on authentic humility, not thinking less of oneself but putting others first
+• Jesus Christ as an example of true compassion, selflessness, and generosity in relationships
+• The impact of Jesus' life, death, and resurrection on changing the way we interact with each other and the world around us
+• The blessing that comes from suffering for doing good and standing up for one's faith despite negative reactions or accusations.
+• Revere Christ as Lord in your hearts
+• Be prepared to give an answer for the hope you have
+• Do it with gentleness and respect
+• There is a "third way" in the face of cultural identity wars, being a Christian who does not fit into left or right, progressive or conservative categories
+• Be like Jesus in the world without fear
+• Christ is an example of suffering for good and evil
+• God's word says believers are beloved of God, elect exiles, foreigners, and strangers
+• Do not be afraid to stand out from the pagan world and live a life that reflects being loved by God
+• Gloria sung multiple times
+• Discussion of the Reformation's legacy on church singing and unity/divisions
+• Recitation of the Apostles' Creed to profess shared faith
+• Blessing from God for attendees to receive protection, support, and guidance
+• Declaration of belonging to Christ in life and death
+• Recognition of God's sovereignty over one's life, including hair falling from their head
+• Assurance that even in desperation, all things work together for salvation
+• Acknowledgement of not being one's own, but belonging body and soul to God
+• Expression of gratitude ("Thank you") repeated multiple times

Exiles in a Pagan Land - The Humble Community November 14, 2021_summary.txt

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+• Declaration of victory
+• Claiming God's authority in battle
+• Turning the enemy's plans forward
+• Miracles and healing through faith
+• Overcoming lies and adversity with confidence
+• Jesus' love breaking chains and overcoming grave
+• Blindness and sickness overcome
+• Living again through faith and trust in God
+• Repeated phrases of "and I know" or "you" without clear context
+• Worship service announcements
+• Upcoming events:
+  • Praise and prayer gathering next Sunday at 6:30 p.m.
+  • Kids choir practice after this service
+  • Potluck for young adults on Friday at 7 p.m.
+• Upcoming youth activity open to grades 10-12 and adults
+• Parent team meeting to gauge interest in the activity
+• Email invitations will be sent out to youth parents within two weeks
+• Adults interested in attending can text or email the organizer
+• Discussion of church repairs, including painting and carpeting
+• Need for $80,000 to replace chairs in the sanctuary
+• Fundraising campaign called "Chairs and Squares"
+• Donations can be made by filling out a form that will be sent via mail
+• The joy of the Lord is emphasized as a source of strength and hope.
+• Worship involves singing together and praying silently.
+• God's mercy and grace are acknowledged.
+• A passage from Matthew 25:34-40 is read about blessing those who care for the poor and needy.
+• An update on Ariel and Jody, missionaries serving in Mexico through C10, is shared.
+• Parable of the Sheep and the Goats, based on Matthew 25:31-46
+• Kingdom prepared for those who help "the least of these"
+• Offering announced for Diaculum Ministries of Canada
+• Worship service transitions into children's worship time
+• Discussion about packing for a long trip to church or elsewhere
+• Introduction to the story of the Israelites' journey in Exodus, to be discussed during children's worship time
+• Upcoming congregational meeting on December 6th and reminder to review budget information
+• Church community prayer and gratitude for gathering together
+• Thanking God for church leaders, staff, and members of council
+• Praying for specific church ministries, such as Cadets, Gems, and Youth groups
+• Requesting comfort and strength for individuals facing health needs (Willie, Joanne, Bob, Benita, Janet)
+• Interceding for the world during the COVID-19 pandemic and related challenges
+• Asking for wisdom and guidance for leaders and those in public health roles
+• Seeking patience and humility as community members face life struggles
+• Praying for Pastor Chris's leadership and for the congregation to learn from God's word.
+• Discussion of humility and its connection to God's favor
+• Introduction to the concept of "visualization" or "guided imagery" in sports psychology
+• Application of this concept to Christian living, specifically envisioning one's future in Christ
+• The importance of an unshakeable hope beyond this life for enduring trials and suffering
+• Discussion of submission to human authority, including slaves, wives, husbands, and all people, as a key aspect of living in light of God's greater reality
+• The economy of the gospel is one of mutual submission, where wives submit to husbands as an example of Jesus' selfless service.
+• True submission can only be accomplished through a deep understanding of God's perfect love, which drives out fear and brings hope for eternal life.
+• Living according to the gospel requires a perspective that includes the end of history and the celestial city of God, allowing believers to see their suffering as participation in Christ's sufferings.
+• Suffering can be transformed into rejoicing through the promise of future overjoicing at the full revelation of God's glory.
+• Believers should not try to change others, but rather focus on changing themselves and their perspective through the unshakable hope of living in a gospel-centered way.
+• When believers are transformed by this hope, they have an impact that changes the world and transforms communities.
+• Christian hope is otherworldly, focusing on things above rather than earthly concerns, and rejecting the paganism of seeing only this world as all there is.
+• The importance of rejoicing in light of God's consummation and glory
+• The need for an otherworldly mindset to make sense of anything in the world
+• Peter's discussion on being a humble community, specifically addressing elders
+• The responsibility of elders to care for and shepherd God's flock
+• The need for leaders (elders) to be captivated by truth and live with purpose and joy
+• The importance of submission to authority, both within the church and outside it
+• The importance of humility in the life of a Christian community
+• The need to think beyond history and focus on eternal hope
+• Casting anxiety on God, who cares for us
+• Visualizing and experiencing the world to come through faith
+• Transformed lives and hearts as a result of living out one's faith
+• Praying for humility, truth, and transformation in oneself and others
+• Praise and worship of Jesus Christ
+• Song lyrics about living for God, trust, and salvation
+• Sports psychologist's quote about experiencing something through all senses
+• Explanation of the Lord's Supper (Eucharist) and its significance
+• Invitation to come to God's table in faith and obedience
+• Preparing for communion
+• Distribution of elements with masks on
+• Reading of scripture related to God's love and forgiveness
+• Singing hymns, including "Amazing Grace"
+• Reflections and prayers regarding the cross and God's gift of salvation
+• Partaking in communion and remembering Christ's sacrifice
+• Invocation of God's blessing and protection
+• Blessing and grace received as they leave the place
+• Praise and worship of God, including Father, Son, and Holy Spirit
+• Expression of gratitude for the gift of God and blessings received
+• Miscellaneous phrases and words (likely unrelated to the main content)

Exiles in a Pagan Land - The Humble Community November 14, 2021_transcript.txt

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+[0.00 --> 27.00]  I'm gonna see a victory
+[27.00 --> 33.00]  For the battle belongs to you, Lord
+[33.00 --> 36.00]  I'm gonna see a victory
+[36.00 --> 39.00]  I'm gonna see a victory
+[39.00 --> 45.00]  For the battle belongs to you, Lord
+[45.00 --> 48.00]  I'm gonna see a victory
+[48.00 --> 52.00]  I'm gonna see a victory
+[52.00 --> 58.00]  For the battle belongs to you, Lord
+[58.00 --> 61.00]  I'm gonna see a victory
+[61.00 --> 65.00]  I'm gonna see a victory, yeah
+[65.00 --> 70.00]  For the battle belongs to you, Lord
+[70.00 --> 75.00]  You take what the enemy may be
+[75.00 --> 78.00]  And you turn it forward
+[78.00 --> 82.00]  You turn it forward
+[82.00 --> 85.00]  You turn it around
+[85.00 --> 88.00]  You take what the enemy may be
+[88.00 --> 91.00]  And you turn it forward
+[91.00 --> 93.00]  You turn it forward
+[93.00 --> 98.00]  You turn it forward
+[98.00 --> 101.00]  You take what the enemy may be
+[101.00 --> 103.00]  You're working it up
+[103.00 --> 107.00]  You're working it for all my God
+[107.00 --> 115.90]  Come on and give a shout out and lift you.
+[117.22 --> 119.10]  Lift you, boy.
+[120.10 --> 121.96]  Lift you, boy.
+[121.96 --> 124.46]  Hey.
+[137.00 --> 166.98]  Lift you, boy.
+[167.00 --> 169.86]  You know my name.
+[170.70 --> 173.30]  You know my story.
+[175.30 --> 179.16]  No mountain could ever stop.
+[179.40 --> 182.76]  The plans you made.
+[183.80 --> 186.60]  Your heart is for me.
+[188.18 --> 190.86]  I believe in your name.
+[191.48 --> 194.26]  Marriacles will happen.
+[194.26 --> 197.42]  I believe in your name.
+[198.00 --> 200.88]  Marriacles will happen.
+[202.18 --> 205.24]  The blind will see.
+[205.98 --> 208.40]  The sick will stay.
+[209.40 --> 211.64]  Sing hallelujah.
+[212.12 --> 214.36]  With confidence.
+[214.36 --> 218.60]  Let healing come.
+[219.32 --> 220.72]  Let mercy.
+[222.28 --> 224.68]  Sing hallelujah.
+[225.96 --> 227.96]  And live again.
+[227.96 --> 237.56]  When the lies come from every side.
+[238.94 --> 241.02]  To say you're done.
+[242.02 --> 244.80]  To say it's over.
+[244.80 --> 245.80]  I'll remember.
+[245.80 --> 250.62]  I'll remember the thousand times.
+[251.10 --> 254.02]  Your love has won.
+[255.02 --> 257.84]  This is far from over.
+[257.84 --> 262.22]  I believe in your name.
+[262.22 --> 262.24]  I believe in your name.
+[262.24 --> 265.72]  Miracles will happen.
+[265.72 --> 268.72]  I believe in your name.
+[269.32 --> 272.26]  Miracles will happen.
+[272.26 --> 273.36]  Yes.
+[273.36 --> 273.38]  Yes.
+[273.38 --> 276.44]  The blind will see.
+[277.44 --> 279.86]  The sick will stay.
+[280.86 --> 282.98]  Sing hallelujah.
+[284.10 --> 286.26]  With confidence.
+[287.44 --> 289.72]  Let healing come.
+[290.60 --> 292.88]  Let mercy in.
+[292.88 --> 295.04]  Sing hallelujah.
+[295.04 --> 299.30]  In live again.
+[301.72 --> 305.64]  In live again.
+[305.64 --> 327.84]  Jesus, Jesus
+[327.84 --> 332.98]  Your love is breaking chains right now
+[332.98 --> 334.94]  Right now
+[334.94 --> 340.84]  Jesus, Jesus
+[340.84 --> 345.98]  Your overturning grave right now
+[345.98 --> 347.96]  Right now
+[347.96 --> 353.82]  Jesus, Jesus
+[353.82 --> 358.98]  Your love is breaking chains right now
+[358.98 --> 360.84]  Right now
+[360.84 --> 363.80]  Nothing can stop you
+[363.80 --> 366.70]  Jesus, Jesus
+[366.70 --> 371.70]  Your overturning grave right now
+[371.70 --> 373.70]  Right now
+[373.70 --> 375.60]  Oh
+[375.60 --> 379.60]  The blind will see
+[379.60 --> 383.60]  The sick will stand
+[383.60 --> 386.74]  Sing hallelujah
+[386.74 --> 389.60]  With confidence
+[389.60 --> 393.60]  Let healing call
+[393.60 --> 396.50]  Let mercy in
+[396.50 --> 399.50]  Sing hallelujah
+[399.50 --> 403.50]  And live again
+[403.50 --> 404.40]  And live again
+[404.40 --> 414.32]  You're gonna live
+[414.32 --> 416.40]  You're gonna live again
+[416.40 --> 422.40]  You're gonna live again
+[422.40 --> 425.40]  Sing hallelujah
+[425.40 --> 428.40]  And live again
+[428.40 --> 430.30]  I'm gonna live again
+[430.30 --> 435.30]  I'm gonna live again
+[435.30 --> 436.30]  I'm gonna live again
+[436.30 --> 444.20]  To be continued
+[444.20 --> 446.20]  I'm gonna live again
+[446.20 --> 447.20]  I'm gonna live again
+[447.20 --> 448.14]  I'm gonna live again
+[448.14 --> 478.12]  Thank you.
+[478.14 --> 490.14]  me
+[493.26 --> 498.14]  you can do all things
+[499.10 --> 507.90]  you can do all things but they'll cause you've never lost a battle no you've never
+[507.90 --> 517.90]  lost a battle and i know i know you never will
+[520.22 --> 525.90]  everything's possible by the power of the holy ghost
+[531.90 --> 535.90]  breaking my heart of stone taking over like hysterical
+[537.90 --> 543.90]  and my walls are all crashing down
+[543.90 --> 547.90]  right now i know you're able
+[547.90 --> 549.90]  to keep
+[549.90 --> 553.90]  people
+[553.90 --> 555.90]  and my god
+[555.90 --> 557.90]  come through again
+[557.90 --> 559.90]  and i know you're able to keep
+[559.90 --> 563.90]  people
+[563.90 --> 565.90]  and i know you're able to keep
+[565.90 --> 567.90]  people
+[567.90 --> 569.90]  and i know i know
+[569.90 --> 571.90]  no you've never
+[571.90 --> 573.90]  and i know
+[573.90 --> 575.90]  i know
+[575.90 --> 577.90]  you never
+[577.90 --> 579.90]  you
+[579.90 --> 581.90]  and i know
+[581.90 --> 583.90]  you
+[583.90 --> 585.90]  and i know
+[585.90 --> 587.90]  you
+[587.90 --> 589.90]  and i know
+[589.90 --> 591.90]  you
+[591.90 --> 593.90]  and i know
+[593.90 --> 595.90]  you
+[595.90 --> 597.90]  and i know
+[597.90 --> 599.90]  you
+[599.90 --> 601.90]  and i know
+[601.90 --> 603.90]  you
+[603.90 --> 605.90]  and i know
+[605.90 --> 607.90]  you
+[607.90 --> 609.90]  and i know
+[609.90 --> 611.90]  you
+[611.90 --> 613.90]  and i know
+[613.90 --> 615.90]  you
+[615.90 --> 617.90]  you
+[617.90 --> 619.90]  and i know
+[619.90 --> 621.90]  you
+[621.90 --> 623.90]  and i know
+[623.90 --> 625.90]  you
+[625.90 --> 627.90]  and i know
+[627.90 --> 629.90]  you
+[629.90 --> 631.90]  and i know
+[631.90 --> 633.90]  you
+[633.90 --> 635.90]  and i know
+[635.90 --> 637.90]  you
+[637.90 --> 639.90]  and i know
+[639.90 --> 653.90]  are
+[653.90 --> 655.90]  this
+[655.90 --> 657.90]  this
+[657.90 --> 659.90]  worship
+[659.90 --> 661.90]  god
+[661.90 --> 668.48]  How is the time to give your love
+[668.48 --> 675.88]  Just as you are to worship
+[675.88 --> 685.70]  Just as you are before your love
+[685.70 --> 694.08]  What may every time you dance in my heart
+[694.08 --> 698.44]  What may every need for love
+[698.44 --> 703.10]  Still in this tragedy remains for those
+[703.10 --> 708.16]  Who I need you, you are
+[708.16 --> 717.16]  Come, how is the time to worship
+[717.16 --> 726.16]  Come, how is the time to give your love
+[726.16 --> 735.16]  Come, just as you are to worship
+[735.16 --> 741.16]  Come, how is the time to worship
+[741.16 --> 745.16]  Just as you are before your love
+[745.16 --> 750.16]  Come, how is the time to worship
+[750.16 --> 754.16]  What may every time you confess you are one
+[754.16 --> 758.16]  What may every need for love
+[758.16 --> 762.16]  Still in this tragedy remains for those
+[762.16 --> 768.16]  Who I need you, you are
+[768.16 --> 772.16]  Building me, we choose to surrender our love
+[772.16 --> 776.16]  Building me, our needs are mine
+[776.16 --> 781.16]  With all our hearts, our minds and strength
+[781.16 --> 788.16]  We gladly do, you are
+[788.16 --> 796.16]  Come, how is the time to worship
+[796.16 --> 805.16]  Come, how is the time to give your love
+[805.16 --> 810.16]  Come, just as you are to worship
+[810.16 --> 820.16]  Just as you are before your love
+[820.16 --> 824.16]  Just as you are before your love
+[824.16 --> 825.16]  Come, how is the time to worship
+[825.16 --> 827.16]  Just as you are before your love
+[827.16 --> 831.16]  Come, how is the time to worship
+[831.16 --> 861.14]  Good morning.
+[861.16 --> 891.14]  Good morning.
+[891.16 --> 893.16]  Good morning.
+[893.16 --> 897.16]  Good morning.
+[897.16 --> 899.16]  Good morning.
+[899.16 --> 901.16]  Good morning.
+[901.16 --> 903.16]  Good morning.
+[903.16 --> 905.16]  Good morning.
+[905.16 --> 907.16]  Good morning.
+[907.16 --> 909.16]  Good morning.
+[909.16 --> 911.16]  Good morning.
+[911.16 --> 913.16]  Good morning.
+[913.16 --> 923.16]  Good morning.
+[923.16 --> 929.22]  here and so we're excited just to see these changes taking place and to be part of that and
+[929.22 --> 935.86]  so keep your eyes out for that. Additionally, I want to just bring to your attention
+[935.86 --> 943.84]  that next week, Sunday night, we are gathering together for what we're calling praise and prayer.
+[944.46 --> 951.60]  So it's an opportunity to gather here at 6 30 p.m. for worship, song, and prayer. You can do that
+[951.60 --> 959.40]  here in person or online as we gather to worship our God together and so the idea is to sing some
+[959.40 --> 966.72]  brand new songs, sing some old favorites, just to gather together and worship our good God.
+[968.00 --> 974.38]  Also, there's kids choir practice following this service and so you are encouraged to meet
+[974.38 --> 983.86]  at 11 30 or whenever service ends, depending on if I run long this morning, but 11 30 is your target
+[983.86 --> 992.34]  and mine, I promise, in the multi-purpose room which is just out there. You can follow Mark and the kids
+[992.34 --> 997.72]  as they go that way. Leslie and Brandon, you have announcements too, right? You're making your way
+[997.72 --> 1006.56]  there. Okay. And for the young adults among us, there is a potluck this coming Friday at 7 p.m.
+[1006.56 --> 1010.62]  If you have any questions about that, you can talk to Josh. Josh, wave your hand. There he is.
+[1011.22 --> 1017.34]  You're encouraged to come. You can come here early to prepare your food or you can cook it at home,
+[1017.46 --> 1022.52]  wherever that is, and then bring it in for that. Who's going first?
+[1022.52 --> 1030.34]  All right. Good morning. So, Mexico announcement again. So, we are looking at doing Mexico again
+[1030.34 --> 1034.52]  this year. It's looking pretty good with what the restrictions are, what we have to do and all that
+[1034.52 --> 1039.04]  fun stuff. But we just wanted to gauge because it's kind of twofold. I mean, the government's
+[1039.04 --> 1042.56]  allowing us to do it, but then whether you guys are actually going to want to do it, that's a totally
+[1042.56 --> 1049.04]  different ballpark, right? So, we're going to do in the next two weeks here, anybody grade 10 to 12,
+[1049.04 --> 1054.02]  as well as any adults who would like to come, whether it be for building, just seeing what we
+[1054.02 --> 1058.20]  do, yada, yada, yada, or being a youth leader. You're welcome to come out. We're going to do
+[1058.20 --> 1063.86]  like a kind of a parent team meeting first before we actually do the sign up. Just to gauge your
+[1063.86 --> 1067.12]  guys' kind of interest, and if you have any questions, we can answer those at that time,
+[1067.24 --> 1072.00]  and kind of just, we're going to do the little flip on it. So, within the next two weeks, I will be
+[1072.00 --> 1076.24]  sending an email out to all the youth parents anyway, so to see if you're interested, come along,
+[1076.24 --> 1080.30]  come out to the meeting. If you guys aren't going to go to the meeting, but your kids are still going
+[1080.30 --> 1083.68]  to come, and you just don't care, then please email me back saying that, too, just so we can get the
+[1083.68 --> 1088.68]  numbers. Don't just not email, then we don't assume that there's no team coming. Same thing for adults,
+[1088.72 --> 1092.30]  you're welcome to that meeting. I won't be emailing everybody in the church, so if you're an adult that
+[1092.30 --> 1096.58]  wants to come, please just text me, or email me, or yada, yada, yada. So, we just get those numbers going.
+[1097.32 --> 1101.36]  But yeah, it's looking pretty good, so hopefully we can kind of get it going, but I'll send that out
+[1101.36 --> 1102.30]  probably within the next week.
+[1105.60 --> 1112.90]  Matt, am I okay over here or not? Yeah? So, Chris already mentioned that we've seen some painting done,
+[1112.96 --> 1119.50]  which looks fantastic. My understanding is that's been funded by regular church repair budget. We have
+[1119.50 --> 1126.02]  a beautiful stage here, and I don't know if you're into having plywood stuff in your house, but I think it
+[1126.02 --> 1133.56]  needs to be covered. So, the carpet is coming for that, and we've also already ordered the carpet for
+[1133.56 --> 1140.98]  the whole sanctuary to come up to the new gray scheme that we're doing here. My understanding is
+[1140.98 --> 1145.10]  we had to order that carpet because it was going out of production, so it's been ordered, it's being
+[1145.10 --> 1151.42]  paid for, but we're using up all the repair funds to do so, and that wasn't the idea. So, they asked me
+[1151.42 --> 1157.14]  if I would come along and help raise money, and so these are the carpet tiles that are coming.
+[1158.00 --> 1164.46]  They're all going through there. It's going to cost about $24,000 to carpet the stage and the
+[1164.46 --> 1169.94]  sanctuary, and at the same time, I don't know how comfortable you are. Eric, are you comfortable
+[1169.94 --> 1177.98]  over there in that chair? No? No? Well, this one's pretty comfy, I would say. So, there has been a group
+[1177.98 --> 1184.20]  that has figured out what should we do about the chairs, and this was the choice. This is an older
+[1184.20 --> 1190.44]  chair from a local church, so it might look a little bit worn. It's not the chair, but it'll be in a
+[1190.44 --> 1196.56]  color scheme that goes, but this is the style that we are looking to do. It's about $56,000 to get
+[1196.56 --> 1204.60]  enough chairs for the sanctuary, and so we need $80,000, and it's my job, along with Sylvia and Dick and Sam
+[1204.60 --> 1210.00]  are going to help raise that money, and the sooner we raise it, the sooner we can order chairs. We're
+[1210.00 --> 1214.10]  not going to order them yet. We're going to wait until we've seen the money come in, or at least a
+[1214.10 --> 1217.80]  good chunk of it, and the first dollars coming in, we'll pay for the carpet that's already been
+[1217.80 --> 1224.04]  ordered, and then once we raise enough, we'll order some chairs. So, you'll see in the next week a donation
+[1224.04 --> 1230.48]  form in your mailbox that you can fill out. We'll put a poster board up, and it'll say things like,
+[1230.48 --> 1236.00]  one chair's $140. This is how much for a chair for your whole family. This is how much to carpet
+[1236.00 --> 1241.60]  this much of the church. So, just get an idea of what your money's going to. So, open up your
+[1241.60 --> 1248.40]  wallets. Pray about it over the next week, and when you do donate, it's called Chairs and Squares.
+[1248.40 --> 1251.48]  That's what you need to designate it as. So, thank you.
+[1260.48 --> 1276.08]  Okay. Chairs and Squares. Did you catch that? What a great name. I like branding. For those
+[1276.08 --> 1281.16]  of you who are wondering, we did a pancake breakfast a little while ago. That was fundraising for
+[1281.16 --> 1285.60]  this very thing. We just didn't know it was called Chairs and Squares at the time. So, we
+[1285.60 --> 1292.64]  started that campaign already. We need to continue that work in order to do it well. I believe that's
+[1292.64 --> 1297.04]  it for announcements this morning. Thank you for your patience in that. Can we stand together?
+[1298.00 --> 1304.44]  We might be called by God into his presence. Receive the greeting of our God.
+[1306.76 --> 1314.06]  Grace, mercy, and peace to you. From God our Father, from the Lord Jesus Christ, his Son,
+[1314.06 --> 1320.02]  and our Savior through the presence and power of the Holy Spirit. All God's people said,
+[1321.06 --> 1323.42]  Amen. Let's worship God together.
+[1326.22 --> 1330.70]  As we join together in worship this morning, no matter our circumstances,
+[1331.42 --> 1337.16]  or how difficult or trying this past week or month or even year has been,
+[1337.16 --> 1342.88]  we can take joy and comfort in Jesus' invitation to all of us in Matthew 11.
+[1344.16 --> 1352.24]  Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened. I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you and learn
+[1352.24 --> 1360.44]  from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For my yoke is easy,
+[1360.44 --> 1367.08]  and my burden is light. Please join us as we sing together the joy we have in Jesus Christ.
+[1367.08 --> 1371.60]  The joy of the Lord will be my first.
+[1374.08 --> 1380.08]  The joy of the Lord is my hope this is an excellent Сейчас distractions
+[1382.08 --> 1383.80]  It's for me and my life, that you will give you rest.
+[1384.26 --> 1389.02]  You will have fun to speak over their world of grace, and you will share it as if you are with Goditeit.
+[1389.08 --> 1391.24]  The joy of the Lord will be my strength. I will not falter, I will not цве.
+[1391.24 --> 1409.48]  is
+[1415.64 --> 1419.48]  is
+[1421.24 --> 1435.24]  praise the joy of the lord is my strength
+[1435.24 --> 1449.24]  is
+[1451.24 --> 1455.24]  the joy of the
+[1455.24 --> 1469.24]  will be my strength
+[1476.52 --> 1483.24]  the joy of the lord
+[1485.24 --> 1491.24]  the joy of the lord
+[1501.24 --> 1508.84]  as part of worshiping together we also have the opportunity to admit to ourselves and to god
+[1508.84 --> 1516.84]  that we do not always live as we are called in this time of opening our hearts to god let's remember
+[1516.84 --> 1522.84]  that god is our merciful god and that he is eager to offer us his grace and love
+[1522.84 --> 1536.84]  his grace and love let's come to our god in a moment of silent prayer
+[1536.84 --> 1550.84]  hear our prayers oh god we trust that you our god love us and have forgiven our sinful hearts minds and souls
+[1550.84 --> 1568.84]  we trust that your mercy and grace are for each one of us who call on jesus as lord and savior
+[1568.84 --> 1582.84]  through jesus we give you thanks amen
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+[1808.84 --> 1809.84]  the my king
+[1809.84 --> 1810.84]  would die
+[1810.84 --> 1811.84]  and teams
+[1811.84 --> 1812.84]  how can you me
+[1812.84 --> 1814.84]  that you my king
+[1814.84 --> 1816.30]  would die for me
+[1816.30 --> 1816.84]  amazing how can you see
+[1816.84 --> 1817.84]  that you my king would die for me
+[1817.84 --> 1819.34]  Cl photos tone
+[1819.34 --> 1819.60]  really
+[1819.60 --> 1820.34]  amazing
+[1820.34 --> 1820.84]  love how can you see
+[1820.84 --> 1827.84]  I honor you in all I do.
+[1827.84 --> 1832.84]  I honor you.
+[1850.84 --> 1864.84]  Good morning.
+[1864.84 --> 1870.84]  Today's offering is first for our church's budget and second for C10.
+[1870.84 --> 1877.84]  Ariel and Jody serve under the ministry organization called C10, Commission to Every Nation.
+[1877.84 --> 1883.84]  One of the ministry God has called them to is El Faro, Men's Clean, Sober, and Living Home.
+[1883.84 --> 1889.84]  Currently, they house 15 men, all of whom are working full-time.
+[1889.84 --> 1896.84]  They are working on expanding their housing situation as a home like theirs does not exist in the area of Mexico,
+[1896.84 --> 1900.84]  and they have a waiting list of men waiting to stay here.
+[1900.84 --> 1911.84]  Jody continues to teach English women's Bible study at Calvary Rosarito and homeschool Jonathan and his friend Ricky.
+[1911.84 --> 1917.84]  They have recently taken in two kids and are figuring out living and schooling situations for them.
+[1917.84 --> 1923.84]  Thank you for your continued love and support through their prayers and financial giving.
+[1923.84 --> 1926.84]  From Matthew 25, verse 34 to 40.
+[1926.84 --> 1929.84]  Then the king will say to those on his right,
+[1929.84 --> 1938.84]  Come, you who are blessed by my father, take your inheritance, the kingdom prepared for you, since the creation of the world.
+[1938.84 --> 1941.84]  For I was hungry, and you gave me something to eat.
+[1941.84 --> 1944.84]  I was thirsty, and you gave me something to drink.
+[1944.84 --> 1947.84]  I was a stranger, and you invited me in.
+[1947.84 --> 1949.84]  I needed clothes, and you clothed me.
+[1949.84 --> 1952.84]  I was sick, and you looked after me.
+[1952.84 --> 1955.84]  I was in prison, and you came to visit me.
+[1955.84 --> 1958.84]  Then the righteous will answer him,
+[1958.84 --> 1963.84]  Lord, when did we see you hungry and feed you, or thirsty and give you something to drink?
+[1963.84 --> 1968.84]  When did we see you a stranger and invite you in, or needing clothes and clothe you?
+[1968.84 --> 1972.84]  When did we see you sick or in prison and visit you?
+[1972.84 --> 1979.84]  The king will reply, Truly I tell you, whatever you did for the least of these brothers and sisters of mine, you did for me.
+[1979.84 --> 1983.84]  Next week's offering is for the Diaculum Ministries of Canada.
+[1983.84 --> 1984.84]  Please give generously.
+[1984.84 --> 2007.84]  Thepps before creation
+[2007.84 --> 2018.60]  You've stood before creation, eternity in your hand.
+[2019.68 --> 2026.24]  You've swept the earth into motion, my soul now to stand.
+[2026.24 --> 2040.18]  You've stood before my failure, and bearing the cross for my shame.
+[2040.18 --> 2048.42]  My sanctuary upon your shoulders, my soul now to stand.
+[2050.50 --> 2053.52]  Soon what can I say?
+[2056.24 --> 2059.78]  And what can I do?
+[2061.78 --> 2070.08]  My heart is hard, oh God, completely true.
+[2073.08 --> 2083.70]  So I walk upon your salvation, spirit alive in me.
+[2083.70 --> 2092.00]  I'd love to declare your promise, my soul now to stand.
+[2092.70 --> 2097.54]  So what can I say?
+[2097.54 --> 2103.00]  What can I do?
+[2103.00 --> 2110.00]  My heart is hard, oh God.
+[2110.00 --> 2115.00]  Completely true.
+[2115.00 --> 2120.00]  So what can I say?
+[2120.00 --> 2127.00]  What can I do?
+[2127.00 --> 2137.00]  I'll offer this heart, oh God, completely true.
+[2137.00 --> 2138.00]  So what can I do?
+[2138.00 --> 2142.00]  I'll stand with arms, my heart abandoned.
+[2142.00 --> 2143.00]  So what can I do?
+[2143.00 --> 2147.00]  I'll stand with arms, my heart abandoned.
+[2147.00 --> 2148.00]  In awe of the one who gave it all.
+[2148.00 --> 2149.00]  So what can I do?
+[2149.00 --> 2154.00]  I'll stand with arms, my heart abandoned.
+[2154.00 --> 2155.00]  In awe of the one who gave it all.
+[2155.00 --> 2161.00]  In awe of the one who gave it all.
+[2161.00 --> 2162.00]  And I'll stand with arms.
+[2162.00 --> 2166.00]  And I'll stand with arms, my heart abandoned.
+[2166.00 --> 2168.00]  In awe of the one who gave it all.
+[2168.00 --> 2169.00]  In awe of my heart abandoned.
+[2169.00 --> 2173.00]  At истор 모든 times, my heart abandoned.
+[2173.00 --> 2176.54]  And I'll stand with arms, my heart abandoned.
+[2176.54 --> 2187.90]  In awe of the one who gave it all.
+[2187.90 --> 2190.50]  In awe of the one who gave it all.
+[2190.50 --> 2204.50]  oh
+[2209.22 --> 2214.50]  of the one who gave it all
+[2220.50 --> 2234.50]  is
+[2250.50 --> 2261.94]  good morning i'd like to invite all the kids to make the heavy track up here to the front
+[2262.42 --> 2264.98]  we'll do the kids blessing and then we'll head to worship time
+[2273.86 --> 2278.82]  oh it's good to see so many of you guys here did you guys have a long journey to church this morning
+[2279.78 --> 2288.58]  yeah oh such in a rush hey i know the feeling i live pretty far away myself up the hill
+[2289.30 --> 2293.22]  so sometimes i have to take a lot of things with me just to get to church
+[2293.22 --> 2302.34]  and stuff do you guys ever go on big trips yeah yeah what oh edmonton wow where else have you guys
+[2302.34 --> 2304.82]  been any big trips calgary
+[2306.98 --> 2314.74]  stump lake i have no idea oh disneyland yeah that would be a good hawaii would be quite a
+[2314.74 --> 2322.90]  just what kind of things do you guys pack when you go on a big trip shirts what do you pack pants
+[2326.18 --> 2328.90]  oh across canada and did you pack anything in particular
+[2328.90 --> 2338.58]  your whole house i know that's a big one yeah anything else you guys pack
+[2343.06 --> 2349.22]  oh your blanket and your bun bun is that a stuffy yeah cool well we're going to talk more about a
+[2349.22 --> 2354.98]  really big trip that the israelites went on in the book of exodus so we'll do that in children's worship
+[2354.98 --> 2360.42]  time and i packed along all kinds of things because i'm thinking about going a big trip so we can have
+[2360.42 --> 2365.14]  a look at that at children's worship time and you can tell me if i pack the right kinds of things
+[2365.14 --> 2370.98]  does that sound good okay well how about we stand and do the kids blessing and then we'll
+[2370.98 --> 2378.18]  we'll continue this conversation in children's worship time the congregation could stand as well ready
+[2380.90 --> 2382.34]  the lord be with you
+[2385.94 --> 2396.34]  all right we'll see you in children's worship time
+[2400.98 --> 2411.62]  i just have a quick announcement before uh dave comes up here to do the congregational prayer just
+[2411.62 --> 2415.62]  wanted to remind you all about the congregational meeting coming up on december 6th
+[2416.98 --> 2422.74]  i'm told that your uh packages for the meeting will be in your mailboxes this week so i ask that you spend
+[2422.74 --> 2427.94]  some time reviewing it especially the budget um information because we're going to be talking about
+[2427.94 --> 2434.82]  that at the meeting as well i was up here last week talking about our uh budget shortfall information
+[2434.82 --> 2441.94]  so i just wanted to keep that on your minds and on your hearts as of now we're 20 percent behind on
+[2441.94 --> 2448.82]  our budget for the year but uh what that works out is we're 20 000 or 23 000 behind on our expenses
+[2449.54 --> 2455.30]  to date so if you can take some time over the next week or the next couple weeks to prayerfully
+[2455.30 --> 2469.30]  consider that for this church community of ours here thank you
+[2473.30 --> 2475.30]  please join me in our church family prayer
+[2475.30 --> 2485.78]  father this is the day that you have made we rejoice we and we are glad in it we thank you for
+[2485.78 --> 2491.46]  this sunday where we can gather together as this group of christians and also with christians everywhere
+[2491.46 --> 2497.38]  who are celebrating the resurrection and celebrating the the christian community that they can be a part of
+[2497.38 --> 2505.22]  we thank you that we do not have to worship in isolation or to develop a relationship with you in
+[2505.22 --> 2511.38]  isolation but that we are part of a much larger christian community where we could feel the love
+[2511.38 --> 2517.38]  of each other and get support to each other too we thank you for this church congregation and the leaders
+[2517.38 --> 2522.66]  that we have we thank you for pastor chris and for kevin and for everyone who works on staff and for the
+[2522.66 --> 2530.18]  ministries that they do we thank you for members of council and that we pray that you give them a
+[2530.18 --> 2536.82]  wisdom as in direction as they make decisions for this church community but just as important that
+[2536.82 --> 2543.62]  they'll be able to reach out to all members of this of this congregation that we will feel the love of
+[2543.62 --> 2550.66]  christ and the unity that we have in you father we think about all the ministries of this church and
+[2550.66 --> 2555.06]  we thank you for them we think about those who just left to go for children's worship time we thank
+[2555.06 --> 2559.14]  you for the leaders there and an opportunity to raise their children in the way that they should go
+[2559.78 --> 2564.66]  and when they are old they will not depart from it we thank you for all the ministries that we have
+[2564.66 --> 2572.34]  we think about cadets the gems our youth our care group the nursery and of course many others that all of
+[2572.34 --> 2579.46]  them in their different ways are providing a network for christians to uh to be with each other and to draw
+[2579.46 --> 2586.82]  closer to you father we think about the ongoing needs that we have in this church community in our
+[2586.82 --> 2593.38]  neighborhood and the world around us we pray especially for willie and joanne miles with the
+[2593.38 --> 2601.22]  illness that willie is facing and the news that he has moved into into in for hospice care and is facing
+[2601.22 --> 2606.74]  an end-of-life situation father we thank you for the love and the strength that you have shown them we
+[2606.74 --> 2615.30]  pray that they will continue to feel your presence and take great comfort in jesus words that he would
+[2615.30 --> 2620.90]  be with us always to the very end of the age we think about other members of this church who are
+[2620.90 --> 2627.62]  facing their own health needs we think about bob and benita and janet um we ask that you be with
+[2627.62 --> 2632.74]  them with the treatment that they're getting the care that they are getting uh that you will be close to
+[2632.74 --> 2640.98]  them and that they will feel your strength and your healing as well an ongoing prayer we we have and
+[2640.98 --> 2646.34]  the people around us have too as we continue to pray for a world uh that is face that is still facing
+[2646.34 --> 2654.34]  covet and um for many it causes great fear and great anxiety um we also notice that it's an opportunity
+[2654.34 --> 2661.38]  uh that we experience division too that when we disagree with each other sometimes disagree strongly
+[2661.94 --> 2670.10]  uh that it does bring people apart we pray that all of us when we're uh speaking our our mind that we
+[2670.10 --> 2675.54]  will be able to speak the truth and love and make the right decisions for the good of the people around
+[2675.54 --> 2683.06]  us we think about all those involved in uh in health care to deal with people who have covet and the other
+[2683.06 --> 2689.62]  crises that we have with those addicted to opioids sometimes we feel a certain sense of helplessness
+[2690.42 --> 2697.06]  we pray lord that good decisions and can be made that we'll be able to take care of them all
+[2697.06 --> 2702.26]  we pray for our elected leaders of all level levels of government we think of those involved in public
+[2702.26 --> 2707.22]  health they have an important task and it's often a very difficult task too and
+[2707.22 --> 2714.42]  and very often no matter what decisions they make they are going to face opposition for it regardless
+[2714.42 --> 2718.98]  we pray for wisdom for all that they'll make the best decisions that they can and whether they
+[2718.98 --> 2726.02]  acknowledge you or not that they will think about the words from micah what does the lord require of us
+[2726.02 --> 2732.42]  to act justly to love mercy and to walk humbly with our god and we pray for all of us and for
+[2732.42 --> 2739.38]  all citizens in our community that we would experience uh patience as we uh face life struggles
+[2739.38 --> 2745.70]  and this health crisis too father we pray for pastor chris as he leads us in the preaching from your word
+[2746.26 --> 2752.74]  and uh and so we can learn more about the humble community we thank you for the words from the apostle
+[2752.74 --> 2759.30]  peter and uh the very comforting words that we can cast our anxiety on you because you care for us
+[2759.30 --> 2764.74]  father we pray that you will be with this church community as we worship and celebrate your name
+[2764.74 --> 2779.30]  and we go our separate ways throughout this week we pray these things in jesus name amen
+[2779.30 --> 2789.30]  and
+[2793.94 --> 2794.74]  let's try again
+[2798.50 --> 2799.54]  and again
+[2799.54 --> 2809.22]  yeah there it is okay awesome thank you back of house for your problem solving skills
+[2811.14 --> 2822.02]  we uh as we prayed are gonna continue in our look at first peter uh this is uh the second to last
+[2822.02 --> 2828.18]  text and uh sermon in this series that we have been together and so encourage you to open your bible
+[2828.18 --> 2834.90]  turn on your bible however that works um as we're going to read from first peter 5 verse 1 through 7
+[2835.78 --> 2842.34]  it will be on the screen i think behind me as we go and so with god's word in front of us let's
+[2843.06 --> 2844.10]  hear what he has to say
+[2846.74 --> 2855.62]  to the elders among you i appeal as a fellow elder and witness of christ's sufferings who will also share
+[2855.62 --> 2865.78]  in the glory to be revealed be shepherds of the flock under your care watching over them not because
+[2865.78 --> 2874.50]  you must but because you are willing as god wants you to be not pursuing dishonest gain but eager to serve
+[2875.06 --> 2880.34]  not lording it over those entrusted to you but being examples to the flock
+[2880.34 --> 2889.86]  and when the chief shepherd appears you will receive the crown of glory that will never fade away
+[2891.62 --> 2900.50]  in the same way you who are younger submit yourselves to the elders all of you clothe yourselves with
+[2900.50 --> 2907.30]  humility toward one another because god opposes the proud but shows favor the humble
+[2907.30 --> 2917.14]  humble humble humble yourselves therefore under god's mighty hand that he may lift you up in due time
+[2918.26 --> 2925.70]  cast all your anxiety on him because he cares for you this is the word of the lord
+[2925.70 --> 2935.94]  so i
+[2938.42 --> 2945.78]  wondered about this introduction for a while and have decided i'm gonna go for it but at the risk of
+[2945.78 --> 2951.62]  embarrassing myself i want you to tell me what this is
+[2955.70 --> 2973.54]  i'm not a very good example of that my flexibility isn't what it once used to be
+[2975.06 --> 2982.58]  um you ever watch the olympics or sports or whatever um and synchronized diving is a good
+[2982.58 --> 2990.02]  example of that or diving in general or um aerial ski is another really good one where the athlete
+[2990.02 --> 2996.90]  stands at the starting block or even prior to that right and then just goes through the motions
+[2998.02 --> 3006.58]  that they're going to do when they're competing so it's a process uh called visualization
+[3006.58 --> 3014.42]  or guided imagery now this is according to sports psychologists so don't blame me i just read about it
+[3015.78 --> 3024.74]  but the idea is in order to be most effective in the task that you are about to do you have to visualize
+[3025.30 --> 3032.18]  beforehand you have to picture the end and the journey to where you're going to go
+[3032.18 --> 3042.50]  in order to live that well in the moment there's a sports psychologist who i read that says the more
+[3042.50 --> 3052.50]  an athlete can image the entire package the better it's going to be there's another article uh on this that
+[3052.50 --> 3060.50]  says and i'm going to quote this this is more than ever a multi-sensory endeavor which is why the term
+[3060.50 --> 3066.58]  imagery is now preferred to visualization visualization doesn't take in all the senses
+[3067.78 --> 3072.18]  you have to smell it you have to hear it you have to feel it everything
+[3074.26 --> 3086.42]  to make it to the end well you have to be captivated by the image of it throughout the entire exercise
+[3086.42 --> 3088.02]  the journey
+[3090.98 --> 3098.90]  i want to suggest to you some of you have already made this connection that the kind of life that peter
+[3098.90 --> 3109.86]  calls us to as disciples only makes sense when it is based on and lived in light of an unshakable
+[3109.86 --> 3114.10]  all-satisfying hope beyond this life
+[3117.70 --> 3125.06]  and that the way we endure trial the way we engage suffering the way we remain faithful the way we grow
+[3125.06 --> 3130.82]  in obedience is to visualize or to image
+[3130.82 --> 3139.94]  what's ahead in that life to come here's my idea my theme for this morning that we're going to reflect
+[3139.94 --> 3148.66]  on the kind of living that changes history but that the kind of living that that changes the world
+[3148.66 --> 3157.46]  can only happen when you think beyond history can only happen when you imagine another world when you
+[3157.46 --> 3162.26]  have a vision of the future of from god that is unstoppable
+[3164.02 --> 3171.22]  that's what peter is trying to tell us and that's what the whole new testament really is is trying to
+[3171.22 --> 3178.82]  show us and if you look at christian history that's what christian history proves to us
+[3180.18 --> 3185.14]  and so really as as a recap as we're nearing the end of this series that we're going to just for a
+[3185.14 --> 3191.94]  moment look back at where we've gone look back at the letter right in in chapter 1 verse 6 and 7
+[3191.94 --> 3198.02]  peter calls us to greatly rejoice in suffering grief and trials
+[3198.74 --> 3206.98]  right in his language even as you face a refining fire your life may result in praise and glory and honor
+[3206.98 --> 3211.78]  right he says you can rejoice now because of the glory promised then
+[3211.78 --> 3222.74]  that's the the new birth into a living hope of verse 3 in chapter 1. in chapter 2 11 and 12 we read
+[3222.74 --> 3228.66]  that we go to war against our sinful desires and we live such good lives among the pagans that even
+[3228.66 --> 3235.38]  though they accuse us of doing wrong and we do all that so that we might glorify god on the day he visits
+[3235.38 --> 3244.26]  right that the glory of god revealed in jesus and in the coming of the celestial city of his return heaven
+[3244.26 --> 3253.22]  and earth together because of jesus right that's the the hope for living or the living hope for living in
+[3253.22 --> 3261.62]  this present darkness and then in the rest of chapter 2 in verse 13 and following believers are told to
+[3261.62 --> 3268.34]  submit to every human authority and to be clear right this would include emperors and governors who were
+[3268.34 --> 3277.38]  actively persecuting christians further slaves are commanded to submit to even harsh masters christian
+[3277.38 --> 3286.50]  wives are called to do right and to not give way to fear even to unbelieving husbands husbands are instructed to
+[3286.50 --> 3293.14]  live together in wisdom as partners with their wives and hear that right all of this living together
+[3293.14 --> 3298.74]  in wisdom as partners comes in a culture that doesn't consider equality between men and women at all
+[3300.02 --> 3307.14]  and then finally all of us in this section are called not to repay evil for evil or insult with insult
+[3307.14 --> 3315.30]  right on the contrary peter writes repay evil with blessing now how does that make any sense
+[3316.50 --> 3323.94]  it doesn't right not in the culture of the day not even in our culture not in the so-called normal
+[3323.94 --> 3332.98]  operation of human interaction it only begins to make sense if you know of a greater reality than the one
+[3332.98 --> 3340.42]  in front of your face right now and look even as i recap that i know that some of you are going to get
+[3340.42 --> 3348.50]  hung up on the word submit and if you are coming out of an experience of abuse or trauma i get that
+[3350.90 --> 3357.46]  but for most of us don't miss the truth for the the ringing in your ears in that word because first
+[3357.46 --> 3364.34]  of all the greatest model of submission is jesus who prayed right yet not my will be done but yours
+[3364.34 --> 3370.90]  right jesus who submitted himself to authorities and powers and principalities of this dark age jesus
+[3370.90 --> 3377.14]  who submitted himself to the cross and then now look at what peter says because he submitted himself
+[3377.14 --> 3383.78]  to the cross in 3 22 jesus christ has gone into heaven and is at god's right hand with angels
+[3383.78 --> 3391.78]  authorities and powers in submission to him if you were here last week this is the the crown after the
+[3391.78 --> 3400.82]  cross again and then again later or elsewhere in the bible in ephesians 5 paul calls us all to submit
+[3400.82 --> 3407.22]  to one another out of reverence for christ right submitting to god submitting to authorities as his
+[3407.22 --> 3414.02]  representatives husbands to wives wives to husbands submitting to each other is the economy of gospel
+[3414.02 --> 3424.50]  living and is is following the example of jesus himself who came not to be served but to serve and
+[3424.50 --> 3432.18]  to give his life as a ransom for many but you can't be afraid of submission when you know the perfect love
+[3432.18 --> 3441.14]  of god that drives out fear but again this kind of mutual submission this kind of of lives willing to
+[3441.14 --> 3449.70]  serve lived for the other only makes sense it's it's only truly possible when you have hope in another
+[3449.70 --> 3460.26]  life right eternally lived in the experience of the glory of god so let me make this really super abundantly clear
+[3461.62 --> 3469.06]  the kind of life that peter has been calling us to the kind of life that is born out of the gospel
+[3469.06 --> 3480.58]  doesn't make sense to the world it doesn't add up it doesn't look right unless your understanding of
+[3481.14 --> 3487.94]  accounting includes the eternal the economy of christian living won't add up unless your perspective
+[3487.94 --> 3495.46]  on life includes the end of history and the celestial city of god all you will be ever be able to see is
+[3495.46 --> 3506.58]  what's right in front of you the only way that you beloved will be able to as peter says in chapter 4 13
+[3507.14 --> 3514.10]  rejoice in as much as you participate in the sufferings of christ and hear that again right rejoice in as
+[3514.10 --> 3520.98]  much in as much as you participate in the sufferings of christ so the more you suffer with christ the more
+[3520.98 --> 3528.42]  rejoicing there ought to be rejoice in as much as you participate in the sufferings of christ so that
+[3528.42 --> 3539.70]  you may be overjoyed when his glory is revealed right rejoice and be overjoyed there's a in the structure
+[3539.70 --> 3547.46]  of this sentence it's a stacked word pair right the rejoicing is one thing on the this lower level and then
+[3547.46 --> 3555.30]  the this rejoicing to come will be over and above that it's a stacked up on top of it it's a rejoicing
+[3555.30 --> 3560.42]  and then an overjoicing and yes i made up that word but i'm going to use it a few more times so
+[3560.98 --> 3568.74]  come with me but it is a promise of over joicing in the age to come at the full revelation of god's glory
+[3568.74 --> 3575.70]  in the new heavens and the new earth that that then works its way backwards through history to your present
+[3575.70 --> 3581.54]  that enables you to rejoice now even in suffering
+[3583.70 --> 3593.14]  so whether it's a funeral or martyrdom whether it's suffering illness or suffering persecution we
+[3593.14 --> 3602.50]  can sing great is thy faithfulness when the world is is crumbling around you or or your whole peer group
+[3602.50 --> 3608.58]  is making fun of you because of your faith you can sing it is well with my soul
+[3611.22 --> 3613.70]  forgive me for this but when your husband is an ass
+[3615.86 --> 3622.74]  or when your wife is indifferent when your boss takes advantage of your work ethic or your professor
+[3622.74 --> 3626.42]  is dismissive of your worldview you can raise a hallelujah
+[3630.10 --> 3635.70]  the very beginning of this series or if you've been uh working through or looking at the the bible
+[3635.70 --> 3643.94]  study that we provided right on the the cover page there i asked a question how does being born into a
+[3643.94 --> 3653.78]  a living hope change the world and this this is the answer okay some of you are going to be shocked by
+[3653.78 --> 3660.02]  this but the truth is you cannot change the people in your life some of you have been trying to change
+[3660.02 --> 3665.22]  them for years and the reality is you're going to keep trying to change them for years to come
+[3665.86 --> 3679.30]  because you cannot change people in your life only god does that but you can change you you can change
+[3679.30 --> 3686.26]  your perspective you can change how you show up in certain circumstances and situations and and basing
+[3686.26 --> 3694.50]  your life now on an unshakable all-satisfying hope beyond this life can can literally redefine
+[3694.50 --> 3701.78]  your present circumstances notice notice carefully right that redefine does not mean change
+[3703.54 --> 3712.10]  right you don't change your present circumstances suffering may still come trial happens hardship is real
+[3714.58 --> 3723.94]  but the meaning that you make in the moment that can be new that can be different that can be redefined
+[3724.50 --> 3732.34]  and when you make a gospel-centered meaning of life and and when you are seeing things through the lens of the
+[3732.34 --> 3742.26]  consummation when you are seeing the hardship of this world in light of the glory of heaven that changes you
+[3744.50 --> 3753.46]  and a changed you has an impact of changing the world that the world is transformed communities are transformed
+[3753.46 --> 3758.34]  when you are transformed when the church is being transformed
+[3760.58 --> 3761.06]  and yes
+[3763.62 --> 3769.46]  for those who only see this world it doesn't make sense
+[3771.30 --> 3777.62]  our hope is other worldly our our mindset is other worldly
+[3777.62 --> 3783.22]  all rights in colossians set your mind on things above not on earthly things
+[3784.74 --> 3793.62]  remember in this series in this epistle we have been talking about living as exiles in a pagan land
+[3794.50 --> 3799.70]  and then one definition of paganism that that we have been offering through this series is to
+[3799.70 --> 3810.10]  see only this world this system as all there is and so human nature the gods or those things that we treat as
+[3810.10 --> 3818.50]  god-like are all part of this one same system there is no other there is no holy other there is no holy there is no
+[3818.66 --> 3828.58]  transcendent and because there is only one system and the things in it whether that's people or nature or the so-called gods of this world
+[3828.58 --> 3835.70]  all of them can be used and manipulated and coerced for your own benefit for your own peace
+[3835.70 --> 3839.94]  and your own power fundamentally that's paganism
+[3841.78 --> 3850.74]  in christianity gospel christianity is something else altogether because our hope is other worldly
+[3850.74 --> 3859.78]  and if you don't believe in anything beyond this world then of course that doesn't make sense
+[3861.54 --> 3867.14]  but the truth for us that we know is that when you come to see god and jesus when you have been born
+[3867.14 --> 3875.46]  again into this living hope this is actually the only way to make sense of anything in this world it's the only way to see
+[3875.46 --> 3884.90]  here's the hard truth then that the the world struggles so much to understand
+[3887.94 --> 3889.70]  any suffering
+[3892.34 --> 3902.66]  hear that any suffering only makes sense if and when consummation and god's glory fills it with purpose
+[3902.66 --> 3910.66]  any rejoicing only makes sense in light of the consummation and god's glory as the utter fulfillment
+[3910.66 --> 3919.06]  and climax of our joy right the truth is an otherworldly hope and an otherworldly mindset is the only way to
+[3919.06 --> 3928.34]  make sense of anything in the world right now and these two threads running through the whole letter of
+[3928.34 --> 3935.06]  peter are pulled into his penultimate discussion here about being a humble community
+[3937.22 --> 3937.78]  he writes
+[3938.58 --> 3939.86]  to the elders among you
+[3941.06 --> 3945.94]  be shepherds of god's flock that is under your care watching over them
+[3945.94 --> 3949.70]  not because you must but because you are willing as god wants you to be
+[3949.70 --> 3956.74]  not pursuing dishonest gain but eager to serve not lording it over those entrusted to you but being examples
+[3956.74 --> 3958.02]  of the flock
+[3960.18 --> 3968.26]  one commentary that i read this week in this section here asks the question how does this make any sense
+[3968.26 --> 3976.58]  in a world where the very stuff of leadership is coercion and money and power and the answer is it doesn't
+[3976.58 --> 3979.38]  it doesn't it doesn't make sense
+[3981.06 --> 3981.86]  or at least
+[3981.86 --> 3983.70]  it only makes sense
+[3983.70 --> 3986.02]  if what you know is
+[3986.02 --> 3987.70]  and when
+[3987.70 --> 3990.58]  the chief shepherd appears
+[3990.58 --> 3992.50]  you will receive
+[3993.06 --> 3994.74]  a crown of glory
+[3994.74 --> 3996.18]  that never fades away
+[3996.18 --> 4002.90]  but that the kind of living that changes history the kind of of living that changes the world
+[4002.90 --> 4010.02]  the kind of leading that changes the church can only happen when you think beyond history when you think of another
+[4010.50 --> 4011.46]  world
+[4011.46 --> 4014.34]  and elders speaking specifically to you now
+[4014.34 --> 4017.22]  elders if you want to be good at your job
+[4017.22 --> 4021.70]  if you want to be faithful to your calling as an under shepherd of jesus
+[4022.66 --> 4024.74]  you need to be captivated
+[4025.06 --> 4028.02]  completely and utterly captivated
+[4028.02 --> 4029.46]  by this truth
+[4030.02 --> 4033.06]  your hearts need to be full of rejoicing
+[4033.06 --> 4034.66]  and overjoycing
+[4034.66 --> 4035.86]  at the consummation
+[4035.86 --> 4037.78]  and the celestial city to come
+[4037.78 --> 4040.18]  your imaginations need to be overwhelmed
+[4040.18 --> 4041.14]  by the beauty
+[4041.14 --> 4042.34]  and the majesty
+[4042.34 --> 4043.38]  of the gospel
+[4043.38 --> 4045.78]  so that you may live and serve
+[4045.78 --> 4048.02]  in the midst of hardship
+[4048.02 --> 4048.98]  and suffering
+[4048.98 --> 4049.94]  and trial
+[4049.94 --> 4050.50]  and
+[4050.50 --> 4051.62]  with purpose
+[4051.62 --> 4052.26]  and joy
+[4052.26 --> 4054.50]  whether that is your suffering and hardship and trial
+[4054.50 --> 4055.78]  or entering into
+[4055.78 --> 4058.34]  the sufferings of others
+[4058.34 --> 4059.86]  to do that with purpose
+[4059.86 --> 4060.42]  and joy
+[4060.42 --> 4061.70]  with integrity
+[4061.70 --> 4062.98]  and with diligence
+[4062.98 --> 4065.30]  you need to be captivated
+[4067.06 --> 4067.78]  by this truth
+[4070.42 --> 4071.86]  but of course not just the elders
+[4073.14 --> 4073.38]  right
+[4073.38 --> 4074.66]  in the same way
+[4074.66 --> 4076.10]  you who are younger
+[4076.10 --> 4076.34]  now
+[4077.06 --> 4079.38]  most scholars agree that that is a term
+[4079.38 --> 4082.18]  that refers to those who are spiritually younger
+[4082.18 --> 4084.90]  as well as those who are numerically younger
+[4084.90 --> 4088.18]  the idea really is to catch up everyone who's not serving
+[4088.18 --> 4089.54]  the church as an elder
+[4091.54 --> 4092.58]  in the same way
+[4093.38 --> 4094.02]  peter writes
+[4094.74 --> 4096.26]  submit yourselves
+[4097.30 --> 4098.10]  to your elders
+[4099.70 --> 4100.66]  there's that word
+[4100.66 --> 4101.70]  submit again
+[4103.30 --> 4107.38]  and since the elders calling is to care for and to
+[4107.38 --> 4110.58]  usher you into the presence of jesus
+[4110.58 --> 4114.74]  whether that's our pastoral elders or me as a teaching elder
+[4114.74 --> 4118.34]  and and to be sure i know that in our church tradition we don't really make that kind of
+[4118.34 --> 4122.34]  distinction formally but practically of course we do because
+[4123.70 --> 4126.26]  your pastoral elders aren't up here preaching yet
+[4126.26 --> 4137.54]  since the elders have a responsibility to see you grow in your faith and in your relationship to jesus
+[4137.54 --> 4144.74]  since the elders may have cause to correct or to teach or to rebuke so that you can be transformed
+[4144.74 --> 4152.90]  ever more into the image of jesus christ peter says that we have to submit to their oversight too
+[4152.90 --> 4158.74]  and again to the world around us that doesn't make sense
+[4159.54 --> 4164.18]  and let's let's be honest right because to some of you sitting here right now and who've been
+[4164.18 --> 4166.18]  sitting in a church for your entire lives
+[4167.86 --> 4169.30]  that hardly makes sense to you
+[4170.66 --> 4173.38]  you mean i have to submit to someone else in authority over me
+[4174.90 --> 4176.34]  that's not how we work in this world
+[4176.34 --> 4186.10]  and yet this is the exact structure that jesus has given his church this is the exact purpose
+[4186.10 --> 4193.14]  that jesus has designed in his kingdom come and his kingdom coming because the truth is we all
+[4193.14 --> 4199.38]  wander right the truth is we all waver in our commitments and the sad truth is we all walk away
+[4199.38 --> 4208.02]  from obedience at one time or another and the good shepherd who goes after that one lost sheep
+[4209.62 --> 4214.98]  like the good shepherd who goes after that one lost sheep a good elder will go after you
+[4216.18 --> 4222.66]  a good elder will not give up on pursuing you a good elder may have to say enough
+[4222.66 --> 4227.62]  enough it's time to return to obedience faith
+[4236.66 --> 4239.70]  what a good elder does this
+[4241.94 --> 4242.58]  humility
+[4245.38 --> 4248.34]  so the only question left this
+[4248.34 --> 4254.02]  will you also be humble enough to hear it
+[4256.18 --> 4263.22]  all of you clothe yourselves with humility toward one another humble yourselves therefore
+[4263.22 --> 4272.10]  under god's mighty hand that he may lift you up in due time will you be a practicing
+[4272.10 --> 4273.94]  functioning
+[4273.94 --> 4278.50]  meaningful part of our humble community
+[4279.94 --> 4284.18]  will you let this community humble you as it has humbled me
+[4286.18 --> 4289.30]  and sure it makes no sense to the world
+[4290.58 --> 4296.02]  but the kind of living that changes history the kind of living that changes the world can only happen
+[4296.02 --> 4302.02]  when you think beyond history when you think of another world a heavenly one come down the life of
+[4302.02 --> 4308.74]  gospel christianity only makes sense when it is based on an unshakable all-satisfying hope
+[4308.74 --> 4310.50]  beyond this life
+[4312.34 --> 4313.22]  and so again notice
+[4314.50 --> 4316.90]  the threads humble yourselves
+[4318.02 --> 4320.98]  so that he may lift you up in due time
+[4321.70 --> 4327.54]  humble yourself now so that he may exalt you with the crown of glory that never spoils
+[4327.54 --> 4333.54]  or fades in in light of eternity all of our suffering is light and momentary
+[4334.18 --> 4340.74]  but in the light of eternity the present finally begins to make sense
+[4343.38 --> 4350.98]  cast all your anxiety on him because he cares for you
+[4350.98 --> 4360.34]  far from being a spiritual platitude that's offered in a counseling session history reveals this to be true
+[4360.34 --> 4368.98]  cast all your anxiety on him because he cares for you history reveals this to be true and the future proves it
+[4368.98 --> 4371.14]  it
+[4371.14 --> 4374.90]  and so in our worship together visualize
+[4376.02 --> 4376.26]  that
+[4377.70 --> 4378.82]  in your devotion
+[4379.62 --> 4380.26]  imagine
+[4381.06 --> 4388.58]  that in your working and you're walking and you're waiting in your heart of hearts be utterly captivated
+[4388.58 --> 4390.02]  by the world to come
+[4390.02 --> 4393.54]  let the gospel redefine your hope
+[4394.10 --> 4401.70]  and your mindset and then and then watch and wait as god transforms your heart your life
+[4402.42 --> 4406.42]  and the world through his church
+[4408.90 --> 4409.62]  picture
+[4410.50 --> 4410.82]  this
+[4412.50 --> 4414.66]  the celestial city
+[4414.66 --> 4415.86]  god
+[4415.86 --> 4417.38]  come down
+[4417.38 --> 4418.50]  the consummation
+[4419.22 --> 4426.58]  of jesus christ at the return of jesus the sound of trumpet with the voice of archangels
+[4426.58 --> 4432.50]  that all those who have gone on in glory before us march with him to this world and that we
+[4432.50 --> 4440.82]  with unveiled faces may see him face to face that we with unveiled faces being clothed now with the
+[4440.82 --> 4444.50]  imperishable may live forever with him
+[4445.54 --> 4445.86]  here
+[4447.06 --> 4447.86]  on this earth
+[4448.82 --> 4449.86]  renewed
+[4449.86 --> 4451.14]  and restored
+[4451.14 --> 4451.70]  to his
+[4452.58 --> 4454.58]  perfect design
+[4454.58 --> 4455.78]  his perfect
+[4456.34 --> 4456.66]  plan
+[4459.14 --> 4460.02]  visualize that
+[4461.22 --> 4462.74]  and see how that changes your tomorrow
+[4464.18 --> 4468.66]  hold up that image of what god is doing and where god is taking history
+[4468.66 --> 4473.38]  and see how that determines your experience
+[4473.38 --> 4474.50]  of today
+[4475.14 --> 4475.62]  amen
+[4476.74 --> 4477.62]  let's pray together
+[4486.10 --> 4488.74]  lord our god humble our hearts
+[4489.62 --> 4491.94]  that we may hear your voice
+[4491.94 --> 4496.74]  humble our hearts
+[4497.86 --> 4499.78]  that we may know your
+[4500.58 --> 4500.98]  truth
+[4503.06 --> 4511.54]  god humble us so that we might see and live and be beyond ourselves that we might focus on the glory of your
+[4511.54 --> 4512.50]  your name
+[4512.50 --> 4518.50]  that we might focus on your design and purpose for history
+[4525.38 --> 4526.10]  god we pray
+[4526.98 --> 4528.98]  that you would use your church
+[4531.06 --> 4532.66]  the elders and the leaders here
+[4533.62 --> 4534.74]  and every member
+[4534.74 --> 4536.90]  that we might
+[4536.90 --> 4537.78]  to transform
+[4537.78 --> 4538.26]  to transform
+[4538.26 --> 4539.46]  our
+[4539.46 --> 4540.66]  hearts
+[4542.66 --> 4543.46]  to transform
+[4543.46 --> 4544.66]  us
+[4544.66 --> 4546.18]  by the renewing
+[4546.18 --> 4547.14]  of our minds
+[4548.58 --> 4552.34]  that we might see you at work in the world and that we might
+[4552.34 --> 4554.18]  know the glory
+[4554.18 --> 4557.14]  to which you are directing
+[4557.70 --> 4558.42]  everything
+[4558.42 --> 4562.74]  and that that vision of the future
+[4564.42 --> 4565.70]  would sustain us
+[4566.74 --> 4567.38]  in the present
+[4572.26 --> 4581.54]  open our eyes to see you more clearly today we pray in jesus name amen
+[4589.08 --> 4591.30]  that we pray in jesus name
+[4601.78 --> 4602.74]  vill pomoc
+[4602.74 --> 4604.34]  gardener
+[4605.38 --> 4607.06]  pour
+[4607.06 --> 4609.62]  tom
+[4610.18 --> 4611.70]  on
+[4614.18 --> 4614.34]  in
+[4614.34 --> 4622.64]  Worthy of every soul we could ever see
+[4622.64 --> 4629.10]  Worthy of all the praise we could ever breathe
+[4629.10 --> 4635.76]  Worthy of every breath we could ever breathe
+[4635.76 --> 4637.80]  We live for you
+[4637.80 --> 4649.72]  Jesus, the name above every other name
+[4649.72 --> 4656.50]  Jesus, the only one who could ever see
+[4656.50 --> 4662.90]  Worthy of every breath we could ever breathe
+[4662.90 --> 4664.90]  We live for you
+[4664.90 --> 4668.90]  We live for you
+[4668.90 --> 4675.70]  Holy, there is no one like you
+[4675.70 --> 4679.32]  There is none beside you
+[4679.32 --> 4684.10]  Open up my eyes in wonder
+[4684.10 --> 4687.86]  Show me who you are
+[4687.86 --> 4691.30]  And fill me with your heart
+[4691.30 --> 4695.86]  And feed me with your love to know
+[4695.86 --> 4697.86]  Some kind of peace
+[4697.86 --> 4703.86]  Jesus, the name above every other name
+[4704.66 --> 4710.86]  Jesus, the only one who could ever see
+[4710.86 --> 4712.86]  We live for you
+[4712.86 --> 4717.86]  Worthy of every breath we could ever breathe
+[4717.86 --> 4719.86]  We live for you
+[4719.86 --> 4723.86]  Oh, we live for you
+[4723.86 --> 4730.86]  And holy, there is no one like you
+[4730.86 --> 4733.86]  There is none beside you
+[4733.86 --> 4738.86]  Open up my eyes in wonder
+[4738.86 --> 4741.86]  Show me who you are
+[4741.86 --> 4742.86]  Who you are
+[4742.86 --> 4745.86]  And fill me with your heart
+[4745.86 --> 4750.86]  And feed me with your love to know
+[4750.86 --> 4752.86]  About me
+[4752.86 --> 4767.86]  I will live for you
+[4767.86 --> 4769.86]  And fill me with your heart
+[4769.86 --> 4770.86]  And fill me with you
+[4770.86 --> 4779.50]  Upon your love is a third foundation
+[4779.50 --> 4787.28]  I will pour my trust in you alone
+[4787.28 --> 4792.76]  And I will not be saved
+[4792.76 --> 4800.76]  I will build my life upon your love
+[4800.76 --> 4805.88]  It is a third foundation
+[4805.88 --> 4813.64]  I will put my trust in you alone
+[4813.64 --> 4818.98]  And I will not be saved
+[4818.98 --> 4824.48]  Holy, there is no one like you
+[4824.48 --> 4828.14]  There is no beside you
+[4828.14 --> 4833.26]  Open up my eyes in wonder
+[4833.26 --> 4836.70]  Show me who you are
+[4836.70 --> 4840.02]  And fill me with your heart
+[4840.02 --> 4841.76]  And lead me
+[4841.76 --> 4846.26]  Bring your love to those around me
+[4846.26 --> 4851.94]  Holy, there is no one like you
+[4851.94 --> 4855.58]  There is none beside you
+[4855.58 --> 4860.70]  Open up my eyes in wonder
+[4860.70 --> 4864.64]  Show me who you are
+[4864.64 --> 4868.50]  And fill me with your heart
+[4868.50 --> 4876.70]  And lead me in your love to those around me
+[4876.70 --> 4886.46]  Ben, please have a seat together
+[4886.46 --> 4899.66]  It was a sports psychologist who said,
+[4899.66 --> 4901.28]  You have to smell it
+[4901.28 --> 4903.42]  You have to hear it
+[4903.42 --> 4905.48]  You have to feel it
+[4905.48 --> 4908.32]  And I would add, you have to taste it
+[4908.32 --> 4910.22]  See it
+[4910.22 --> 4915.52]  We come to the table of our God
+[4915.52 --> 4919.72]  We come to visualize the banquet
+[4919.72 --> 4922.66]  The kingdom to come
+[4922.66 --> 4926.78]  We come to join our Lord
+[4926.78 --> 4928.94]  At his table
+[4928.94 --> 4932.26]  At his last supper
+[4932.26 --> 4934.06]  The Lord Jesus
+[4934.06 --> 4935.72]  Cook bread
+[4935.72 --> 4938.46]  And when he had given thanks
+[4938.46 --> 4939.96]  He broke it
+[4939.96 --> 4942.06]  And said, this is my body
+[4942.06 --> 4943.46]  Which is for you
+[4943.46 --> 4947.04]  Do this in remembrance of me
+[4947.04 --> 4950.02]  In the same way
+[4950.02 --> 4951.66]  He took the cup
+[4951.66 --> 4953.02]  After supper
+[4953.02 --> 4954.94]  And he said, this cup
+[4954.94 --> 4956.82]  Is the new covenant
+[4956.82 --> 4957.90]  In my blood
+[4957.90 --> 4962.02]  Do this in remembrance of me
+[4962.02 --> 4964.50]  For whenever we eat this bread
+[4964.50 --> 4965.90]  And drink this cup
+[4965.90 --> 4967.80]  We proclaim the Lord's death
+[4967.80 --> 4968.92]  And resurrection
+[4968.92 --> 4972.04]  Until he comes again
+[4972.04 --> 4986.04]  Therefore
+[4986.04 --> 4988.82]  We proclaim our faith
+[4988.82 --> 4991.30]  As signed and sealed
+[4991.30 --> 4992.58]  In this sacrament
+[4992.58 --> 5002.06]  Church family
+[5002.06 --> 5004.04]  The Lord has prepared
+[5004.04 --> 5005.58]  His table
+[5005.58 --> 5007.74]  For all who love him
+[5007.74 --> 5009.72]  And who trust in him alone
+[5009.72 --> 5010.96]  For their salvation
+[5010.96 --> 5013.68]  And so if you are truly sorry
+[5013.68 --> 5014.54]  For your sins
+[5014.54 --> 5015.88]  If you sincerely believe
+[5015.88 --> 5017.48]  In the Lord Jesus
+[5017.48 --> 5019.04]  As your Savior
+[5019.04 --> 5020.66]  And if you desire to live
+[5020.66 --> 5022.20]  In obedience to him
+[5022.20 --> 5023.44]  Whether you are here
+[5023.44 --> 5023.88]  Present
+[5023.88 --> 5025.32]  Or at home
+[5025.32 --> 5026.48]  Digitally present
+[5026.48 --> 5027.94]  You are invited
+[5027.94 --> 5029.62]  To come with gladness
+[5029.62 --> 5030.78]  To the table
+[5030.78 --> 5032.08]  Of the Lord
+[5032.08 --> 5034.08]  The gifts of God
+[5034.08 --> 5035.48]  For the people
+[5035.48 --> 5036.64]  Of God
+[5036.64 --> 5040.18]  The elders come forward
+[5040.18 --> 5041.10]  And then as they begin
+[5041.10 --> 5042.08]  To make their way
+[5042.08 --> 5043.92]  To distribute the elements
+[5043.92 --> 5045.06]  Just encourage you
+[5045.06 --> 5046.28]  To put your masks on
+[5046.28 --> 5048.00]  As they come by you
+[5048.00 --> 5048.98]  And in front of you
+[5048.98 --> 5050.20]  So that everyone
+[5050.20 --> 5051.04]  May participate
+[5051.04 --> 5052.16]  Without concern
+[5052.16 --> 5052.18]  Without concern
+[5081.40 --> 5082.92]  They can raise content
+[5082.92 --> 5085.54]  And work with gladness
+[5085.54 --> 5100.08]  Amazing grace, how seamless thou, and save the night my day.
+[5100.08 --> 5112.88]  Thy once was lost, but now I'm down, as God for now I see.
+[5115.54 --> 5129.36]  Grace, how tough I want to hear, and grace our fears we give.
+[5129.36 --> 5143.14]  Thy precious name, and grace our fears, and all our hearts we give.
+[5143.14 --> 5157.46]  The Lord has promised love to me, His word my heart secures.
+[5157.46 --> 5171.46]  He will my shield and portion be, as long as life can be.
+[5171.46 --> 5187.46]  Through many dangers, toils, and snares, I have already come.
+[5187.46 --> 5203.46]  Tis grace hath brought me safe thus far, and grace will lead me home.
+[5203.46 --> 5219.46]  When we've made plans ten thousand years, bright shining as the sun.
+[5219.46 --> 5233.46]  We know that safe to sing God's grace, and when we've lost beyond.
+[5233.46 --> 5236.84]  To beugarat no matter.
+[5236.84 --> 5240.16]  A
+[5240.16 --> 5240.64]  jewel
+[5240.64 --> 5249.74]  Evangelical
+[5249.74 --> 5254.80]  Evangelical
+[5255.24 --> 5256.36]  Evangelical
+[5256.36 --> 5259.22]  Evangelical
+[5259.38 --> 5261.86]  Evangelical
+[5261.86 --> 5291.84]  Thank you.
+[5291.86 --> 5292.28]  Take.
+[5293.14 --> 5293.76]  Eat.
+[5294.36 --> 5301.38]  Remember and believe that the body of our Lord Jesus Christ was given for the complete forgiveness of all our sins.
+[5321.86 --> 5334.04]  cup of
+[5334.04 --> 5353.20]  You did not wait for me to draw near to you, but you clothed yourself with frail humanity.
+[5353.20 --> 5366.44]  You did not wait for me to cry out to you, but you let me hear your voice calling me.
+[5366.44 --> 5372.44]  And I'm forever grateful to you.
+[5372.44 --> 5379.04]  I'm forever grateful for the cross.
+[5379.04 --> 5395.12]  I'm forever grateful to you that you came to sing and save the lost.
+[5398.46 --> 5408.76]  You did not wait for me to draw near to you, but you clothed yourself with frail humanity.
+[5409.04 --> 5422.28]  You did not wait for me to cry out to you, but you let me hear your voice calling me.
+[5422.28 --> 5427.28]  And I'm forever grateful to you.
+[5427.28 --> 5434.28]  I'm forever grateful for the cross.
+[5434.28 --> 5441.28]  I'm forever grateful to you.
+[5441.28 --> 5450.28]  That you came to sing and save the lost.
+[5450.28 --> 5451.28]  I'm forever grateful to you.
+[5451.28 --> 5457.28]  I'm forever grateful to you.
+[5457.28 --> 5463.28]  I'm forever grateful for the cross.
+[5463.28 --> 5468.28]  I'm forever grateful to you.
+[5468.28 --> 5480.28]  I'm forever grateful to you, but you let me pray, but you know what you came to sing and save the lost.
+[5480.28 --> 5510.26]  Thank you.
+[5510.28 --> 5540.26]  Thank you.
+[5540.28 --> 5570.26]  Thank you.
+[5570.28 --> 5572.28]  Thank you.
+[5576.76 --> 5580.00]  The blood of Christ shed for you.
+[5580.64 --> 5584.52]  So take, drink, remember, and believe that the precious blood of our Lord Jesus Christ
+[5584.52 --> 5589.14]  was given for the complete forgiveness of our sins.
+[5589.14 --> 5591.14]  Amen.
+[5591.14 --> 5593.14]  Amen.
+[5593.14 --> 5595.14]  Amen.
+[5595.14 --> 5597.14]  Amen.
+[5597.14 --> 5599.14]  Amen.
+[5599.14 --> 5601.14]  Amen.
+[5601.14 --> 5603.14]  Amen.
+[5603.14 --> 5605.14]  Amen.
+[5605.14 --> 5607.14]  Amen.
+[5607.14 --> 5609.14]  Amen.
+[5609.14 --> 5611.14]  Amen.
+[5611.14 --> 5613.14]  Amen.
+[5613.14 --> 5615.14]  Amen.
+[5615.14 --> 5616.14]  Amen.
+[5616.14 --> 5617.14]  Amen.
+[5617.14 --> 5619.14]  Amen.
+[5619.14 --> 5621.14]  Amen.
+[5621.14 --> 5621.20]  Amen.
+[5621.20 --> 5622.14]  Amen.
+[5622.14 --> 5622.20]  Amen.
+[5622.20 --> 5622.76]  Amen.
+[5622.76 --> 5623.70]  Amen.
+[5623.70 --> 5625.24]  Amen.
+[5625.24 --> 5626.64]  Amen.
+[5630.64 --> 5631.20]  Amen.
+[5631.20 --> 5631.88]  Amen.
+[5632.42 --> 5633.32]  Amen.
+[5633.32 --> 5642.20]  sacrament that here we can taste and see that here you have united us with christ and and given us a
+[5642.20 --> 5650.28]  preview of the heavenly banquet in your eternal kingdom to come send us out now strengthened
+[5650.28 --> 5658.12]  nourished and equipped send us out now in the power of your spirit to live and work to your
+[5658.12 --> 5665.64]  praise and glory for the sake of jesus christ our lord in whose name we pray amen
+[5677.88 --> 5683.16]  now we will receive your blessing and then we will sing receive your blessing
+[5683.16 --> 5695.48]  may god himself go before you to lead you may god go behind you to protect you may god go beneath you
+[5695.48 --> 5704.52]  to support you and may god go beside you to befriend you do not be afraid let the blessing of god come
+[5704.52 --> 5716.84]  upon you today do not be afraid but go in peace and humility to love and serve the lord all god's people said amen
+[5716.84 --> 5735.16]  so
+[5735.16 --> 5749.92]  We receive your blessing, we receive your grace
+[5749.92 --> 5755.78]  As we walk in the light shining from your face
+[5755.78 --> 5761.52]  May the peace that you give change the way that we give
+[5761.52 --> 5769.08]  We receive your blessing as we leave this place
+[5769.08 --> 5778.94]  We receive your blessing, we receive your grace
+[5778.94 --> 5784.72]  As we walk in the light shining from your face
+[5784.72 --> 5790.40]  May the peace that you give change the way that we give
+[5790.40 --> 5797.96]  We receive your blessing as we leave this place
+[5797.96 --> 5807.40]  Praise God, the bloom of blessings flow
+[5807.40 --> 5812.40]  Praise Him, the creatures here we know
+[5812.40 --> 5818.40]  Praise Him, above He heavenly woes
+[5818.40 --> 5824.20]  Praise Father, Son, and praise the Holy Ghost
+[5824.20 --> 5830.14]  We receive your blessing, we receive your grace
+[5830.14 --> 5835.84]  As we walk in the light shining from your face
+[5835.84 --> 5840.96]  May the peace that you give change the way that we give
+[5840.96 --> 5848.52]  We receive your blessing as we leave this place
+[5848.52 --> 5857.92]  Praise God, from whom all blessings flow
+[5857.92 --> 5862.70]  Praise Him, all creatures here below
+[5862.70 --> 5869.30]  Praise Him, above He heavenly woes
+[5869.30 --> 5874.44]  Praise Father, Son, and praise the Holy Ghost
+[5874.44 --> 5882.26]  We receive your blessing as we leave this place
+[5882.26 --> 5885.10]  Praise God, from where they give you will
+[5885.10 --> 5887.66]  Praise Father, Son, and praise the Holy Spirit
+[5887.66 --> 5889.82]  Praise Him, above He heavenly woes
+[5889.82 --> 5890.00]  Glian incredibly rich astral and rich Awwen fact
+[5890.00 --> 5890.94] prechen our Namen about He�
+[5890.94 --> 5891.00]  We receive the gift of God
+[5891.00 --> 5891.96]  Praise others here below
+[5891.96 --> 5893.44]  Praise God,Euuciones
+[5893.44 --> 5893.70]  Maintaran live science bearers
+[5893.70 --> 5893.88]  Je ganzheit bosh
+[5893.88 --> 5895.10]  sehe a songôn liệu
+[5895.10 --> 5896.06]  Tweak героia lake than you have
+[5896.06 --> 5905.76]  Zeke절 name puka mi
+[5905.76 --> 5906.88]  relatedachusetts estruturale
+[5906.88 --> 5907.86]  Disclaimer about Him, above Heatode wired времени
+[5907.86 --> 5937.84]  We'll be right back.
+[5937.86 --> 5967.84]  Thank you.
+[5967.86 --> 5997.84]  Thank you.
+[5997.86 --> 6027.84]  Thank you.
+[6027.86 --> 6029.86]  Thank you.
+[6057.86 --> 6059.86]  Thank you.
+[6087.86 --> 6089.86]  Thank you.
+[6117.86 --> 6119.86]  Thank you.
+[6119.86 --> 6121.86]  Thank you.
+[6121.86 --> 6123.86]  Thank you.

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+• Singing as a form of worship
+• Overcoming storms and battles through faith
+• Identity in Christ and crown of glory
+• Authority and miracles through Jesus
+• Worship service announcements (kids' choir, cadets)
+• Upcoming communion celebration
+• Preparation for communion and encouragement to reflect on personal relationship with God
+• Opening prayer and welcome to worship
+• Invitation to praise God with various instruments
+• Praise and worship songs, including "Praise the Lord" and "Hallelujah"
+• Message about hope, death, and the King being alive
+• Call to sing louder and praise in the midst of difficulties
+• Final prayers and Amen
+• Worship and adoration of God
+• Praise for Jesus Christ as the King and Savior
+• Acknowledgment of human sin and guilt
+• Expression of gratitude for God's love and redemption
+• Recognition of God's glory, power, and sovereignty
+• Request for deliverance and forgiveness
+• Confession of dependence on God and need for His guidance
+• Jesus' power over death and sin
+• Sponsorship of refugees in the denomination, specifically from Eritrea and the Democratic Republic of the Congo
+• Request for generous giving to support the church's work
+• Report from council meeting on various activities and initiatives:
+  - Approving volunteer lists for ministries and programs
+  - Governance items being reviewed and surveyed
+  - Classes meetings attended by delegates from the church
+  - Mexico missions for youth being re-started
+  - Review of the church budget
+• Encouragement to give financially to support the church's work due to a current shortfall
+• Encouraging church members to spend time with their families and give generously to support church programs
+• Introduction to children's worship time, referencing a past story about a beaver destroying trees at the pastor's house
+• Discussion of the plan in 1 Peter 4:12-19, which will be read from scripture during the service
+• The speaker recounts their personal experience with tests and exams
+• High school vs university experiences: change from dislike to enjoyment
+• Discussion of 1 Peter 4, verses 12-19
+• Interpretation of the word "test" in the context of suffering as a Christian
+• Explanation of the contrast between worldly expectations and Christian response to suffering
+• Peter explains that Christians should not be surprised by trials and suffering
+• The purpose of a test or trial is redefined from "proving our faith to God" to "proving our faith genuine or making it stronger"
+• A test is compared to setting a personal best in weightlifting, where the focus is on personal growth rather than external validation
+• Trials can be opportunities for Christians to rejoice and participate in the sufferings of Christ
+• Being insulted or ridiculed for being Christian can be a blessing, as it means the spirit of glory and God rests on them
+• The glory of Jesus is found in both his crucifixion (cross) and resurrection (crown)
+• The cross precedes the crown, as demonstrated by Philippians 2
+• There can be no resurrection or exaltation without the cross
+• The glory of the cross is a necessary step to reach the glory of the crown
+• Many people want to experience the glory of the crown without going through the pain and sacrifice of the cross.
+• The glory of the cross is what brings the glory of the crown
+• Christians live in hope with a living hope
+• There is peace that surpasses all understanding for Christians
+• The blessing from God is not about having a "best life now" but rather a future reward
+• The crown comes at and with the cross, which is insulted by some but brings blessings to those who are persecuted for Christ's name
+• The same spirit of glory and God that rested on Jesus when he condescended to us rests on believers today
+• The early church and apostles were filled with the Holy Spirit and suffered persecution for preaching the full gospel of Jesus
+• The cross and crown will always be seen as folly and a stumbling block by those who do not believe, but are the power and wisdom of God to those being saved.
+• The gospel is the power of God unto salvation for all who believe
+• Suffering can be seen as a reason to rejoice, as it produces perseverance and character, leading to hope
+• Those who suffer with Christ will also share in his glory
+• Believers are children of God and co-heirs with Christ
+• The cross is necessary to receive the crown of glory
+• Some Bible teachers may claim that one can have the crown without suffering the cross, but this is not true
+• Being a Christian may cost one's job, popularity, power, and status
+• The cross and the crown (eternal reward) come together in the life of Jesus
+• Persecution for Christ is a blessing and a sign of being a true follower
+• Don't settle for a lesser crown due to shame or fear of the cross
+• The importance of not being ashamed of the gospel and declaring it
+• Suffering with others, knowing that the trial and test are not for one's own sake alone
+• The presence and power of the Holy Spirit in believers, transforming them into the image of Christ
+• Not being surprised by suffering or trials, but instead rejoicing in them as a right struggle
+• Distinguishing between persecution and the infringement of rights, emphasizing that Christians should not be defined by external circumstances
+• The concept of being a "meddler" in English is discussed, with the Greek word meaning a busy body who involves themselves in others' affairs without expertise or warrant.
+• Being a meddler can lead to suffering and trials, but if one's intentions are to stand with Jesus, they should not suffer for being a meddler.
+• The speaker believes that persecution of Christians will increase and is already happening in the world today.
+• A generation of young Christians is rising up who will face this reality, while those over 50 or 60 may be exempt due to their status and relative comfort.
+• Situatedness in a changing cultural norm
+• Hope for the future despite challenges
+• The role of young people (teens, 20s, 30s) in enduring testing and learning to stand
+• Perseverance as a church, with God's presence and hope guiding them
+• Being a visible hope in the world through selfless faith
+• Declaring the gospel of Jesus Christ despite suffering and trials
+• The power of God's glory and presence
+• Being transformed to radiate the image of Jesus Christ
+• Not being afraid, but instead rejoicing and boldly proclaiming the kingdom of God
+• The glory in the cross and crown
+• Prayer for filling with God's love, majesty, and glory
+• Holding onto God's promise to hold fast and give eternal life
+• The importance of faith and trust in Jesus, especially during difficult times
+• Overcoming fear through the presence of God and living for Him
+• Giving oneself fully to Christ and surrendering to His will
+• Living a life of devotion and service to Jesus, even in the face of adversity or loss

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+[0.00 --> 2.60]  Sometimes choosing just to sing
+[2.60 --> 9.00]  Is the thing that changes everything
+[9.00 --> 11.66]  Hallelujah
+[11.66 --> 16.22]  When the storm is relentless
+[16.22 --> 17.22]  Hallelujah
+[17.22 --> 21.88]  When the battle is endless
+[21.88 --> 24.06]  In the middle of the in-between
+[24.06 --> 26.72]  In the middle of the questioning
+[26.72 --> 31.14]  Over every worry, every fear
+[31.14 --> 34.60]  Hallelujah, even here
+[34.60 --> 40.70]  Hallelujah, even here
+[40.70 --> 45.36]  Hallelujah, even here
+[56.72 --> 76.26]  I've tried so hard to see it
+[76.26 --> 81.18]  Took me so long to believe it
+[81.18 --> 85.52]  You choose someone like me
+[85.52 --> 90.02]  To carry your victory
+[90.02 --> 95.76]  Perfection could never hurt me
+[95.76 --> 100.18]  You give what we don't deserve
+[100.18 --> 105.66]  And you take the broken things
+[105.66 --> 109.72]  And raise them to glory
+[109.72 --> 114.60]  You are my champion
+[114.60 --> 121.18]  Giants fall when you stand undefeated
+[121.18 --> 125.14]  Every battle you've won
+[125.14 --> 130.28]  I am who you say I am
+[130.28 --> 134.32]  You crown me with confidence
+[134.32 --> 135.96]  I am seated
+[135.96 --> 140.98]  In the heavenly place undefeated
+[140.98 --> 145.84]  With the one who has conquered it all
+[145.84 --> 152.88]  Now I can finally see it
+[152.88 --> 157.86]  You're teaching me how to receive it
+[157.86 --> 162.26]  So let all this driving cease
+[162.26 --> 166.38]  Oh, this is my victory
+[166.38 --> 170.34]  You are my champion
+[170.34 --> 171.34]  You are my champion
+[171.34 --> 177.96]  Oh, giants fall when you stand undefeated
+[177.96 --> 181.92]  Every battle you've won
+[181.92 --> 186.98]  I am who you say I am
+[186.98 --> 190.48]  You crown me with confidence
+[190.48 --> 192.68]  I am seated
+[192.68 --> 197.72]  In the heavenly place undefeated
+[197.72 --> 202.46]  With the one who has conquered it all
+[202.46 --> 207.48]  When I lift my voice in shout
+[207.48 --> 212.42]  Every wall comes crashing down
+[212.42 --> 215.44]  I have the authority
+[215.44 --> 221.74]  Jesus has given me
+[221.74 --> 227.34]  When I open up my mouth
+[227.34 --> 232.04]  Miracles start breaking out
+[232.04 --> 235.24]  I have the authority
+[235.24 --> 241.34]  Jesus has given me
+[241.34 --> 245.16]  You are my champion
+[245.16 --> 247.12]  You are my champion
+[247.12 --> 251.84]  Giants fall when you stand undefeated
+[251.84 --> 253.04]  Undefeated
+[253.04 --> 255.48]  Every battle you've won
+[255.48 --> 264.54]  He was my champion
+[264.54 --> 265.48]  And I always have to keep up front of my mouth
+[265.48 --> 269.38]  In the 한복
+[270.42 --> 271.42]  Set up with your shield
+[276.14 --> 276.96]  I amriad
+[276.96 --> 278.64]  You are my champion
+[278.76 --> 280.72]  I show over
+[280.72 --> 281.96]  I am being recorded
+[281.96 --> 287.24]  Good morning.
+[288.60 --> 290.14]  How's everyone doing this morning?
+[292.12 --> 293.74]  Louder for the people on the live stream.
+[293.84 --> 294.84]  How's everyone doing this morning?
+[295.96 --> 297.52]  Hey, there we go.
+[297.62 --> 298.08]  Thank you.
+[298.62 --> 303.08]  I'm just standing up here wasting time until Adrian finds his way to the front.
+[304.20 --> 304.98]  Here he comes.
+[305.98 --> 307.00]  Everyone, there's Adrian.
+[307.14 --> 307.80]  Welcome, Adrian.
+[307.80 --> 314.10]  I do want to welcome you to worship this morning.
+[314.32 --> 318.90]  If you're visiting with us or if you're checking us out for the first time here or online,
+[319.00 --> 319.58]  my name is Chris.
+[319.98 --> 325.10]  I'm one of the pastors here, and it's my privilege, along with these others and a few others you
+[325.10 --> 329.70]  haven't yet seen, to lead you in worship this morning together.
+[329.80 --> 333.64]  Before we begin, there's just a couple announcements we want to make.
+[333.64 --> 342.26]  First, you have been hearing about the kids' choir that will be used as part of our broader
+[342.26 --> 348.08]  choral Christmas performance that will happen later in this year.
+[348.72 --> 355.12]  The first practice was scheduled for today after service, but because of circumstances
+[355.12 --> 361.02]  outside of our control and outside of our church, that first practice is being postponed until
+[361.02 --> 361.56]  next week.
+[361.78 --> 365.26]  So next week, Sunday, kids' choir practice after service.
+[365.64 --> 368.60]  Here, if you have any questions, you can talk to Mark about that.
+[370.20 --> 377.30]  Also, just a reminder that we have cadets starting, or cadets is this week, Thursday.
+[377.42 --> 384.68]  And so cadets is a young boys' ministry and program that we run here that happens on Thursday
+[384.68 --> 385.04]  night.
+[385.22 --> 388.46]  And so if you have any questions about that, you can grab Daryl, who's over here.
+[388.56 --> 389.24]  Wave your hand, Daryl.
+[389.24 --> 389.70]  Thank you.
+[390.14 --> 391.52]  He will answer your questions.
+[391.70 --> 392.74]  And Dave, he's over there.
+[392.82 --> 393.96]  He wants to be acknowledged too.
+[394.06 --> 394.58]  Yep, Dave.
+[394.64 --> 395.06]  Very good.
+[397.08 --> 399.86]  They can answer your questions about what that looks like.
+[399.86 --> 403.28]  And then finally, I'm going to put this on your hearts.
+[403.50 --> 407.34]  Next week, in our worship together, we will be celebrating communion.
+[407.66 --> 409.76]  That is the Lord's Supper or the Eucharist.
+[409.76 --> 414.58]  And so we will come to the table of God as a community of God.
+[414.58 --> 428.50]  And so we encourage you to spend this week preparing your hearts, preparing your lives, and talking to your families, if that is your circumstance and situation, so that we can come to the table meaningfully together next week.
+[428.50 --> 435.60]  If you have any questions about what that might look like for you, please grab me after the service, and I'm happy to address that with you.
+[436.46 --> 441.90]  Let's stand together as we are called and welcomed by God into his presence.
+[441.90 --> 442.90]  Let's pray.
+[442.90 --> 443.90]  Let's pray.
+[443.90 --> 447.88]  I invite you to receive the greeting of our good God.
+[449.42 --> 461.90]  Grace, mercy, and peace to you from God our Father, from the Lord Jesus Christ, his Son, and our Savior, through the presence and power of the Holy Spirit.
+[462.64 --> 463.22]  Everyone said?
+[464.20 --> 464.60]  Amen.
+[465.54 --> 466.56]  Let's worship God together.
+[466.56 --> 466.68]  Amen.
+[466.68 --> 467.02]  Amen.
+[469.30 --> 472.24]  Join us this morning as we praise the Lord.
+[472.92 --> 474.94]  Praise God in his sanctuary.
+[475.76 --> 477.44]  Praise him in his mighty heavens.
+[478.34 --> 480.44]  Praise him for his mighty deeds.
+[481.30 --> 483.62]  Praise him according to his surpassing greatness.
+[484.70 --> 486.22]  Praise him with trumpet sound.
+[486.98 --> 488.66]  Praise him with lute and harp.
+[489.52 --> 492.04]  Praise him with tambourine and dance.
+[492.68 --> 494.68]  Praise him with strings and pipe.
+[494.68 --> 497.30]  Praise Him with sounding cymbals
+[497.30 --> 499.78]  Praise Him with loud clashing cymbals
+[499.78 --> 501.76]  Everything that has breath
+[501.76 --> 502.96]  Praise the Lord
+[502.96 --> 504.42]  Praise the Lord
+[504.42 --> 523.28]  I praise the hallelujah
+[523.28 --> 530.44]  In the presence of my enemies
+[530.44 --> 535.40]  I raise the hallelujah
+[535.40 --> 542.52]  Louder than the unbelief
+[542.52 --> 547.22]  I raise the hallelujah
+[547.22 --> 553.08]  My weapon is a melody
+[553.08 --> 559.24]  I raise the hallelujah
+[559.24 --> 566.24]  Heaven comes to fight for me
+[566.24 --> 573.40]  I'm gonna sing in the middle of the storm
+[573.40 --> 576.40]  Louder and louder
+[576.40 --> 579.40]  You're gonna hear my praises roar
+[579.40 --> 582.56]  Up from the ashes
+[582.56 --> 586.56]  Hope will arise
+[586.56 --> 588.88]  Death is defeated
+[588.88 --> 593.72]  The King is alive
+[593.72 --> 600.88]  I raise the hallelujah
+[600.88 --> 603.88]  I raise the hallelujah
+[603.88 --> 610.88]  With everything inside of me
+[610.88 --> 615.88]  I raise the hallelujah
+[615.88 --> 623.04]  I will watch the darkness bleed
+[623.04 --> 628.04]  I raise the hallelujah
+[628.04 --> 634.20]  In the middle of the mystery
+[634.20 --> 638.20]  I raise the hallelujah
+[638.20 --> 640.20]  I raise the hallelujah
+[640.20 --> 647.36]  Fear you've lost your hold
+[647.36 --> 653.36]  I'm gonna sing in the middle of the storm
+[653.36 --> 654.52]  The King is a song
+[654.52 --> 656.52]  I raise the hallelujah
+[656.52 --> 658.52]  I raise the hallelujah
+[658.52 --> 660.52]  I raise the hallelujah
+[660.52 --> 661.52]  I raise the hallelujah
+[661.52 --> 668.68]  Up from the thunder
+[668.68 --> 670.12]  And your 하나 when the quarter is not
+[670.12 --> 670.72]  The King is deaf
+[670.72 --> 672.18]  The King comes to die
+[672.18 --> 672.68]  All theands of God
+[672.68 --> 673.68]  Shaun's Thousand corner
+[673.68 --> 674.68]  The King is His Holy ancestors
+[674.68 --> 704.66]  Sing a little louder
+[704.68 --> 734.66]  Sing a little louder
+[734.68 --> 736.68]  Sing a little louder
+[737.68 --> 740.68]  My weapon is a melody
+[741.20 --> 743.68]  Sing a little louder
+[743.68 --> 747.68]  Heaven comes to fight for me
+[747.68 --> 749.68]  Sing a little louder
+[749.68 --> 752.68]  In the presence of my enemies
+[753.20 --> 754.68]  Sing a little louder
+[755.68 --> 758.68]  Louder than the unbelief
+[758.68 --> 760.68]  Sing a little louder
+[760.68 --> 764.68]  My weapon is a melody
+[764.68 --> 766.68]  Sing a little louder
+[766.68 --> 770.68]  Heaven comes to fight for me
+[770.68 --> 772.68]  Sing a little louder
+[772.68 --> 775.68]  I'm gonna sing
+[775.68 --> 778.68]  In the middle of the storm
+[778.68 --> 781.68]  Louder and louder
+[781.68 --> 784.68]  You're gonna hear my praises roar
+[784.68 --> 787.68]  Up from the ashes
+[787.68 --> 790.68]  Hope will arise
+[790.68 --> 793.68]  Death is defeated
+[793.68 --> 796.68]  The King is alive
+[796.68 --> 798.68]  I'm gonna sing
+[798.68 --> 799.68]  I'm gonna sing
+[799.68 --> 801.68]  In the middle of the storm
+[801.68 --> 802.68]  I'm gonna sing
+[802.68 --> 803.68]  In the middle of the storm
+[803.68 --> 804.68]  Louder and louder
+[804.68 --> 808.68]  You're gonna hear my praises roar
+[808.68 --> 811.68]  Roar up from the ashes
+[811.68 --> 814.68]  Hope will arise
+[814.68 --> 816.68]  Death is defeated
+[816.68 --> 820.68]  The King is alive
+[820.68 --> 826.68]  I raise a hallelujah
+[826.68 --> 830.68]  I raise a hallelujah
+[830.68 --> 832.68]  I raise a hallelujah
+[832.68 --> 835.68]  I raise a hallelujah
+[835.68 --> 842.68]  I raise a hallelujah
+[842.68 --> 847.68]  I raise a hallelujah
+[847.68 --> 849.68]  Amen.
+[877.68 --> 879.68]  Amen.
+[907.68 --> 913.30]  Who has numbered every grain of sand?
+[913.86 --> 919.66]  Kings and nations tremble at His voice.
+[920.28 --> 925.80]  All creation rises to rejoice.
+[928.18 --> 936.32]  Behold, our God seated on His throne.
+[936.32 --> 940.32]  Come, let us adore Him.
+[941.44 --> 946.36]  Behold, our King.
+[946.74 --> 949.32]  Nothing can compare.
+[950.34 --> 956.32]  Come, let us adore Him.
+[966.32 --> 974.70]  Who has given counsel to the Lord?
+[974.94 --> 980.32]  Who can question any of His words?
+[981.48 --> 986.32]  Who can teach the one who knows all things?
+[986.32 --> 994.32]  Who can fathom all His wondrous deeds?
+[994.32 --> 1003.70]  Behold, our God seated on His throne.
+[1004.08 --> 1007.32]  Come, let us adore Him.
+[1007.32 --> 1013.24]  Behold, our King.
+[1013.70 --> 1016.32]  Nothing can compare.
+[1017.08 --> 1022.32]  Come, let us adore Him.
+[1022.32 --> 1041.24]  Who has felt the nails upon His hands?
+[1041.24 --> 1047.74]  Bearing all the guilt of sinful man.
+[1048.36 --> 1054.38]  God eternal, humbled to the grave.
+[1055.04 --> 1061.62]  Jesus, Savior, risen now to reign.
+[1061.62 --> 1062.62]  Behold, our King.
+[1062.62 --> 1066.62]  Behold, our King.
+[1066.62 --> 1067.62]  God eternal, Lord, our King.
+[1067.62 --> 1068.62]  Behold, our King.
+[1068.62 --> 1069.62]  God eternal, Lord, our King.
+[1069.62 --> 1070.62]  Behold, our King.
+[1070.62 --> 1075.62]  Come, let us adore Him.
+[1075.62 --> 1079.62]  Behold, our King.
+[1079.62 --> 1080.62]  Nothing can compare.
+[1080.62 --> 1082.62]  Nothing can compare.
+[1082.62 --> 1086.62]  God let us adore Him.
+[1086.62 --> 1092.62]  You will reign forever.
+[1092.62 --> 1096.62]  You will reign forever.
+[1096.62 --> 1098.62]  You will reign forever.
+[1098.62 --> 1100.62]  You will reign forever.
+[1100.62 --> 1105.62]  You will reign forever.
+[1105.62 --> 1115.62]  Let your glory fill the earth.
+[1115.62 --> 1121.62]  Let your glory fill the earth.
+[1121.62 --> 1130.62]  You will reign forever.
+[1130.62 --> 1136.28]  Let your glory fill the earth.
+[1136.28 --> 1141.94]  Let your glory fill the earth.
+[1143.60 --> 1148.86]  Let your glory fill the earth.
+[1149.86 --> 1156.16]  Our God, seated on His throne,
+[1156.16 --> 1160.82]  Come let us adore Him.
+[1161.98 --> 1165.98]  Behold our King,
+[1166.28 --> 1168.70]  Nothing can compare,
+[1169.74 --> 1175.52]  Come let us adore Him.
+[1186.16 --> 1189.38]  O God, we come before you.
+[1189.70 --> 1193.10]  We enter into your sanctuary to bring praises to you.
+[1193.90 --> 1197.00]  Seated on your throne, we come to adore you, our King.
+[1198.00 --> 1201.22]  With us we bring our pain and suffering and sin,
+[1201.72 --> 1203.30]  Some wearing it on their sleeves,
+[1203.72 --> 1205.48]  Others keeping it hidden and in secret,
+[1206.22 --> 1207.20]  But you see it all.
+[1207.88 --> 1211.06]  God, whether we are approaching you for the first time,
+[1211.06 --> 1212.24]  The tenth time,
+[1212.94 --> 1213.72]  The hundredth,
+[1213.72 --> 1214.36]  Thousandth,
+[1214.44 --> 1215.36]  The millionth time,
+[1215.96 --> 1218.46]  Your grace is a well too great to fathom,
+[1218.86 --> 1220.80]  And your love exceeds the heaven's reach
+[1220.80 --> 1223.78]  To where we, so lowly and broken, come to you.
+[1224.50 --> 1225.10]  You say,
+[1225.92 --> 1227.78]  Call upon me in your day of trouble,
+[1228.10 --> 1229.18]  I will deliver you,
+[1229.60 --> 1231.12]  And you shall glorify me.
+[1231.82 --> 1232.36]  You say,
+[1232.62 --> 1235.82]  I will cleanse you from all our guilt of our sin against me,
+[1235.82 --> 1239.88]  And will forgive all the guilt of your sin and rebellion against me.
+[1240.64 --> 1244.86]  You humbled yourself from a place of glory and died for our sins.
+[1245.36 --> 1247.86]  You called us to yourself in our times of trouble.
+[1248.78 --> 1251.76]  May we turn to the world around us and bring glory to you,
+[1252.10 --> 1254.30]  The gracious Savior of our ruined lives.
+[1254.72 --> 1257.80]  For the Son of Man came to seek and to save the lost.
+[1258.80 --> 1259.96]  In your name we pray.
+[1260.32 --> 1260.64]  Amen.
+[1265.82 --> 1279.08]  Jesus, was той taken one of course to us and did not see you,
+[1279.08 --> 1279.88]  Oh God, I will gift you,
+[1279.88 --> 1281.36]  Oh Lord, I will deliver you to our sins again,
+[1281.36 --> 1283.98]  Oh Lord, as we will deliver you to your Savior.
+[1283.98 --> 1304.14]  O Lord, my rock and my redeemer, greatest treasure of my longing soul.
+[1304.14 --> 1317.82]  My God, like you there is no other, true delight is found in you alone.
+[1318.44 --> 1333.10]  Your grace, a wealth too deep to fathom, your love exceeds the heavens reach.
+[1333.10 --> 1347.10]  Your truth, a fount of perfect wisdom, my highest good and my unending need.
+[1347.10 --> 1365.24]  O Lord, my rock and my redeemer, strong defender of my weary heart.
+[1365.24 --> 1379.68]  My sword to fight the cruel deceiver, and my shield against its hateful doors.
+[1379.68 --> 1386.58]  My song, when enemies surround me.
+[1387.48 --> 1394.24]  My hope, when tides of sorrow rise.
+[1394.54 --> 1399.82]  My joy, when trials are appounding.
+[1399.82 --> 1408.68]  Your faithfulness, my refuge in the night.
+[1408.68 --> 1426.68]  O Lord, my rock and my redeemer, gracious Savior of my ruined life.
+[1426.68 --> 1434.04]  My guilt and cross laid on your shoulders.
+[1434.04 --> 1441.76]  In my place, you suffered, bled, and died.
+[1441.76 --> 1447.44]  You rose, the grave and death are conquered.
+[1449.44 --> 1456.32]  You broke my bonds of sin and shame.
+[1456.32 --> 1462.06]  You rose, the grave and death are conquered.
+[1463.94 --> 1469.76]  You broke my bonds of sin and shame.
+[1469.76 --> 1471.68]  You broke my bonds.
+[1471.68 --> 1473.26]  You broke my bonds.
+[1473.26 --> 1477.32]  You broke my bonds.
+[1477.32 --> 1479.62]  You broke my bonds.
+[1479.62 --> 1480.16]  You broke my bonds.
+[1480.16 --> 1481.50]  You broke my bonds.
+[1481.50 --> 1482.22]  You broke my bonds with me.
+[1482.22 --> 1483.04]  You broke my bonds.
+[1483.04 --> 1486.78]  You broke my bonds.
+[1486.78 --> 1488.20]  You broke your bonds.
+[1488.28 --> 1488.58]  You broke my bonds.
+[1488.58 --> 1488.78]  You broke my bonds.
+[1488.78 --> 1489.50]  I broke your bonds.
+[1489.50 --> 1490.64]  You broke my bonds.
+[1490.64 --> 1492.54]  You broke my bonds with me.
+[1492.54 --> 1494.12]  You broke my bonds.
+[1494.16 --> 1495.58]  You broke my bonds.
+[1495.58 --> 1496.68]  You broke my bonds.
+[1496.68 --> 1497.50]  You fixed my bonds.
+[1497.50 --> 1497.78]  You broke my bonds.
+[1497.78 --> 1527.76]  Thank you.
+[1527.78 --> 1557.76]  Thank you.
+[1557.78 --> 1559.78]  Thank you.
+[1559.78 --> 1561.78]  Thank you.
+[1561.78 --> 1591.78] 
+[1591.78 --> 1593.78]  Thank you.
+[1593.78 --> 1595.78]  Thank you.
+[1595.78 --> 1596.78]  Thank you.
+[1596.78 --> 1598.78]  Thank you.
+[1598.78 --> 1599.78]  Thank you.
+[1599.78 --> 1600.78]  Thank you.
+[1600.78 --> 1601.78]  Thank you.
+[1601.78 --> 1605.12]  Eritrea, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
+[1606.22 --> 1613.14]  68 CRC churches at present are working on sponsoring refugees in our denomination.
+[1613.96 --> 1620.12]  So, and hopefully at some point we will also be re-sponsoring or sponsoring again someone
+[1620.12 --> 1623.06]  coming from one of these countries.
+[1624.20 --> 1628.04]  So today we ask you to please give generously as the Lord has given you.
+[1631.78 --> 1661.76]  Thank you.
+[1661.78 --> 1663.78]  Thank you.
+[1663.78 --> 1665.78]  Thank you.
+[1665.78 --> 1695.78] 
+[1695.78 --> 1697.78]  Thank you.
+[1697.78 --> 1699.78]  Thank you.
+[1699.78 --> 1701.78]  Thank you.
+[1701.78 --> 1703.78]  Thank you.
+[1703.78 --> 1705.78]  Thank you.
+[1705.78 --> 1707.78]  Thank you.
+[1707.78 --> 1709.78]  Thank you.
+[1709.78 --> 1711.78]  Thank you.
+[1711.78 --> 1713.78]  Thank you.
+[1713.78 --> 1715.78]  Thank you.
+[1715.78 --> 1717.78]  Thank you.
+[1717.78 --> 1719.78]  Thank you.
+[1719.78 --> 1721.78]  Thank you.
+[1721.78 --> 1723.78]  Thank you.
+[1723.78 --> 1725.78]  Thank you.
+[1725.78 --> 1727.78]  Thank you.
+[1727.78 --> 1729.78]  Thank you.
+[1729.78 --> 1733.82]  Every hour I need Thee.
+[1733.82 --> 1744.82]  O bless me now, my Savior, I come to Thee.
+[1746.54 --> 1755.78]  I need Thee every hour in joy or pain.
+[1755.78 --> 1764.62]  Come quickly and abide, for life is bring.
+[1765.02 --> 1769.78]  I need Thee, O I need Thee.
+[1770.14 --> 1773.72]  Every hour I need Thee.
+[1774.04 --> 1783.78]  O bless me now, my Savior, I come to Thee.
+[1785.78 --> 1795.08]  O bless me now, my Savior, I come to Thee.
+[1795.08 --> 1799.22]  O bless me now, my Savior, I come to Thee.
+[1799.22 --> 1807.72]  all right i'm here this morning we had to give you a report on council your council has been
+[1807.72 --> 1811.94]  busy we had a meeting this past week and i thought it'd be a good idea just to give you
+[1811.94 --> 1816.52]  some highlights of what we've been up to or what we're doing in those meetings
+[1816.52 --> 1825.66]  thing of great pride is that we had an opportunity to approve the volunteer list for all the
+[1825.66 --> 1830.04]  different things that are happening at our church both ministries and programs and stuff so it was
+[1830.04 --> 1835.60]  really awesome to go through that list as council to see how many of you are supporting and contributing
+[1835.60 --> 1839.10]  to the ministries and programs here so we were able to go through all that that was great
+[1839.10 --> 1846.50]  pastor chris reported on some of the governance items we're working on and reviewing at the church
+[1846.50 --> 1853.80]  tracy is working with him on that as part of the doing some surveys and trying to gather information
+[1853.80 --> 1858.46]  on uh what how things have been going and where where we should be going in the future to make
+[1858.46 --> 1866.62]  things more optimal uh we had a bunch of uh delegates from this or a bunch of council members from this
+[1866.62 --> 1871.34]  church that went to the classes meetings last couple weeks ago so we got a report on that so
+[1871.34 --> 1876.08]  that was good to hear about what's going on in our classes and in the denomination in general
+[1876.08 --> 1884.90]  and we another uh cool thing that's going on is we had a report from brandon muller it's interesting
+[1884.90 --> 1890.24]  getting mexico missions for the youth going again so he's going to start putting a little bit of work
+[1890.24 --> 1894.38]  into that and seeing where that takes us with kovid we're not sure what's all going to happen but we
+[1894.38 --> 1901.58]  kind of encouraged him to start working on that and see where that heads and we reviewed the budget
+[1901.58 --> 1908.30]  and uh had a good conversation about that so we're ready to uh to pass that on to you for the
+[1908.30 --> 1914.10]  congregational meeting that is coming up on december 6th so that's what we've been up to so we were busy
+[1914.10 --> 1918.36]  this week so that was it was good to get together with all the new council members and to have some
+[1918.36 --> 1924.74]  time to talk about the life of the church on that note i want to this is the kind of the time of the
+[1924.74 --> 1931.08]  year we start talking about we're getting to the end of our year and to talk about uh the budget and uh we
+[1931.08 --> 1936.54]  have a shortfall happening right now so uh we want to encourage everyone to spend some time this week
+[1936.54 --> 1942.12]  thinking about how they can uh give to this church we've got some good vibe going some good momentum
+[1942.12 --> 1947.86]  going so we want everybody to kind of spend some time at home with your families to seeing how you can
+[1947.86 --> 1952.44]  give generously to this church to keep these programs and ministries and the lights on in this in this
+[1952.44 --> 1959.18]  building so we would like to encourage you to do that and i'm doing double shift here today so the next thing
+[1959.18 --> 1962.60]  up is children's worship time so let's have all the kids come up front please
+[1962.60 --> 1983.06]  good morning everybody how are you guys doing good
+[1983.06 --> 1990.64]  i haven't seen you guys in a while it's been a month i think did you guys miss me yes good answer
+[1990.64 --> 1998.92]  so when i was here remember we were in children's worship time in the back room i had a major problem
+[1998.92 --> 2004.82]  going on at my house does anybody remember what that was all about yeah a beaver i had a beaver at
+[2004.82 --> 2009.04]  my house and there was chopping down does anybody know how many trees he took down does anybody remember
+[2009.04 --> 2015.96]  how many there were no zoe do you remember close i had three two trees come down so i got some more
+[2015.96 --> 2019.88]  information for you later in the back room about how we dealt with these remember you guys helped me
+[2019.88 --> 2025.90]  with it we came up with some solutions all right anyway i had a plan there and the plan actually
+[2025.90 --> 2030.56]  started to work you guys helped me with the plan and today we're talking about a plan in children's
+[2030.56 --> 2034.46]  worship time it's actually one of my favorite stories in the bible it's about joseph does anybody know
+[2034.46 --> 2042.48]  this story about joseph well we're going to hear about it today god had a plan and and his plan was
+[2042.48 --> 2046.58]  executed even though some people try to get in the way of the plan but at the end of the day god
+[2046.58 --> 2050.02]  made his plan come true so we're going to hear about that today is that going to be exciting
+[2050.02 --> 2057.96]  yeah shake your hand all right how about we do the blessing and then we can head off to
+[2057.96 --> 2066.34]  children's worship time let's do it everybody stand up all right everybody ready
+[2066.34 --> 2072.22]  the lord be with you and also with you
+[2072.22 --> 2073.82]  all right
+[2087.96 --> 2106.58]  let's come to the lord in our church family prayer
+[2106.58 --> 2117.38]  we will exalt you oh god the king we will praise your name forever and ever
+[2117.38 --> 2124.76]  every day we will praise you and extol your name forever and ever great are you lord and most worthy
+[2124.76 --> 2131.88]  of praise your greatness no one can fathom we will celebrate your abundance abundant goodness and we
+[2131.88 --> 2139.02]  will joyfully sing of your righteousness lord you are gracious and compassionate slow to anger and rich
+[2139.02 --> 2144.20]  in love lord you are good to all and have compassion on all that you have made
+[2144.20 --> 2151.68]  god you are near to all who call on your name who call on your name in truth you will watch over
+[2151.68 --> 2155.36]  all who love you lord and may every creature praise your name
+[2155.36 --> 2165.32]  lord god psalm 145 rings true always and yet as we praise your name here this morning there are things
+[2165.32 --> 2172.30]  in this world we do not understand we think of places in the world where there is war places where
+[2172.30 --> 2178.30]  dictators reign where governments are corrupt where guerrilla warfare rages on
+[2178.30 --> 2186.34]  places where famine and drought are normal where kids can't eat and mothers can't drink places where
+[2186.34 --> 2194.62]  education is hard to come by and disease is easy to come by places where suffering is allowed persecution
+[2194.62 --> 2203.36]  is encouraged and death is feared god our father we pray for the people whom that is a reality for today
+[2203.36 --> 2209.54]  in the midst of their suffering may your spirit be working in the midst of that suffering may your church
+[2209.54 --> 2216.58]  be reaching in the midst of that suffering make us aware of how we can be instruments of your change
+[2216.58 --> 2218.14]  your love your peace
+[2218.14 --> 2225.74]  close to home lord in canada and here in langley we pray for our leaders pray for the decisions that they
+[2225.74 --> 2233.20]  make lord god unite our nation not under a political platform but with a love and respect for people and
+[2233.20 --> 2239.06]  their views may accountability be practiced and when disagreements occur may your spirit lead
+[2239.06 --> 2240.34]  healthy discussions
+[2240.34 --> 2248.18]  in this church god we are grateful for all you have blessed us with thank you for children and for
+[2248.18 --> 2254.08]  seniors for youth for parents for those who are married for those who are single and the range of people
+[2254.08 --> 2261.12]  in this congregation thank you for ministries that are up and running for pastor chris and josh and
+[2261.12 --> 2266.74]  sylvia and maryland and grace and all of the wonderful volunteers that make your church function
+[2266.74 --> 2273.70]  as the body in this community thank you for all of the things that make emmanuel crc the church that it is
+[2275.70 --> 2283.38]  and in that joy god move us to be more christ-like with our time with our service to the community
+[2284.42 --> 2288.18]  with our love for each other with our finances
+[2288.18 --> 2295.14]  be with those who are dealing with health concerns like willie bob benita and janet and many more in
+[2295.14 --> 2300.58]  our congregation pray for those who are still dealing with the ramifications of this pandemic
+[2300.58 --> 2306.50]  for those who are sick who've lost loved ones who find themselves in relational tensions due to
+[2306.50 --> 2314.26]  differences in opinion may you reign through all of this lord god pray for those in our community who are
+[2314.26 --> 2320.90]  shut in who are anxious who are depressed or who are just having a hard go of life right now
+[2322.42 --> 2328.50]  lord may they know that you are there with them always and may we as your body their brothers and
+[2328.50 --> 2338.42]  sisters be present for them all too and lord be with us now as we open your word be with pastor chris as
+[2338.42 --> 2344.90]  he brings your word to us and may we hear your voice tugging at our hearts today give us the wisdom
+[2344.90 --> 2353.46]  and the courage not only to hear your word today but to act on it as well in jesus name who lived and died
+[2353.46 --> 2367.46]  and rose again for us all we pray amen
+[2383.46 --> 2402.50]  christ has been listening to him and we hold uporus this week
+[2408.02 --> 2411.54]  we hope we look back
+[2411.54 --> 2416.22]  All right, use this time to sign the Bible to open it in 1 Peter 4.
+[2427.18 --> 2428.48]  About now, hey.
+[2434.96 --> 2439.40]  As I said, in just a minute, we are going to read from 1 Peter 4.
+[2439.40 --> 2443.64]  We're going to start at verse 12, and we'll carry through to the end of that chapter.
+[2444.92 --> 2450.52]  As you are getting that ready, I'm going to lead us into the text this morning.
+[2451.02 --> 2453.22]  I had a chance this week.
+[2453.30 --> 2457.74]  I was talking to someone who's taking some university classes right now,
+[2457.80 --> 2460.00]  and they had a final last week.
+[2460.04 --> 2462.02]  And so I started thinking about tests.
+[2462.88 --> 2466.28]  How many of you take tests in your life on a regular basis?
+[2467.14 --> 2469.62]  Here's like university or school-aged kids.
+[2471.02 --> 2476.82]  When I was in high school, I hated tests.
+[2477.50 --> 2481.60]  Now, I wasn't a very good student, mind you, so that might be part of the reason.
+[2482.16 --> 2484.22]  And I was also a bit of a...
+[2485.22 --> 2488.60]  I don't know what the polite company word for it is.
+[2489.00 --> 2490.94]  I wasn't the kind of student you wanted to have.
+[2490.94 --> 2495.38]  And so one day, I remember getting a test, sitting down in the class.
+[2495.46 --> 2498.14]  The teacher walked around and put the test on all of our desks.
+[2498.30 --> 2502.12]  And I spent about four minutes flipping through the pages, looking at it and going,
+[2502.38 --> 2503.58]  I don't know any of this stuff.
+[2503.62 --> 2504.62]  So I wrote my name on it.
+[2504.70 --> 2506.02]  I walked up to the front of the class.
+[2506.10 --> 2507.20]  I put it on the teacher's desk.
+[2507.52 --> 2509.42]  And I said, I don't know any of this.
+[2509.64 --> 2511.64]  And she said, well, can't you just guess?
+[2512.32 --> 2514.70]  And I said, can't you be a better teacher?
+[2514.70 --> 2520.58]  Yeah, I was that kind of kid.
+[2524.10 --> 2527.64]  Elementary and high school-age kids, that's not the takeaway from today's message.
+[2529.30 --> 2530.00]  Sorry, Kobe.
+[2533.28 --> 2536.42]  Now, fast forward a few years, and I go to university.
+[2537.92 --> 2542.76]  And I would be the first to tell you that I loved tests.
+[2542.76 --> 2545.84]  In fact, I loved exam season.
+[2546.18 --> 2551.72]  When exam season came around as a university student, I got excited because it was an awesome
+[2551.72 --> 2556.32]  opportunity to think back on everything that I had learned and to really engage in that
+[2556.32 --> 2563.16]  semester-long process of taking in all of this information and having a chance to write
+[2563.16 --> 2564.70]  out our answers.
+[2564.88 --> 2566.46]  I remember I wrote one exam.
+[2567.10 --> 2568.66]  We had a three-hour time slot.
+[2568.66 --> 2575.78]  I took three and a half hours, and I wrote, I think it was 22 pages front and back of full
+[2575.78 --> 2576.42]  scat paper.
+[2576.54 --> 2580.22]  So that's the long exam paper, front and back, 22 sheets.
+[2580.40 --> 2582.26]  So that's 44 pages.
+[2582.92 --> 2585.34]  Just wrote and wrote and wrote furiously.
+[2585.60 --> 2587.14]  And I loved every minute of it.
+[2588.30 --> 2589.50]  Now, what was the difference?
+[2591.14 --> 2592.84]  I actually liked what I was doing.
+[2592.84 --> 2598.32]  Now, sure, I was a little bit more mature and responsible, but I understood the purpose
+[2598.32 --> 2600.76]  of the test.
+[2602.60 --> 2606.04]  And so I was able to experience joy in taking it.
+[2607.48 --> 2608.62]  Your Bibles are open.
+[2609.68 --> 2612.64]  1 Peter 4, starting in verse 12.
+[2612.64 --> 2622.88]  Dear friends, do not be surprised at the fiery ordeal that has come upon you to test you
+[2622.88 --> 2626.40]  as though something strange were happening to you.
+[2627.52 --> 2636.32]  But rejoice in as much as you participate in the sufferings of Christ, so that you may be
+[2636.32 --> 2639.42]  overjoyed when his glory is revealed.
+[2639.42 --> 2645.36]  If you are insulted because of the name of Christ, you are blessed.
+[2646.14 --> 2649.40]  For the spirit of glory and of God rests on you.
+[2650.70 --> 2658.06]  If you suffer, it should not be as a murderer or a thief or any kind of criminal or even as a meddler.
+[2659.32 --> 2667.40]  However, if you suffer as a Christian, do not be ashamed, but praise God that you bear that name.
+[2667.40 --> 2672.20]  For it is time for judgment to begin with God's household.
+[2673.02 --> 2678.60]  And if it begins with us, what will the outcome be for those who do not obey the gospel of God?
+[2679.68 --> 2687.94]  And if it is hard for the righteous to be saved, what will become of the ungodly and the sinner?
+[2687.94 --> 2699.66]  So then, those who suffer according to God's will should commit themselves to their faithful creator and continue to do good.
+[2700.30 --> 2701.52]  This is the word of the Lord.
+[2701.52 --> 2711.00]  Now, Peter jumps right in in this text, and so we're going to do the same.
+[2711.08 --> 2713.34]  He jumps right in, and he says,
+[2713.46 --> 2717.46]  Dear friends, or if you remember last week, we looked a little bit more closely at that word,
+[2717.56 --> 2719.34]  and it means beloved, right?
+[2719.36 --> 2721.52]  Or beloved is the old pronunciation.
+[2721.86 --> 2723.72]  That is God's chosen.
+[2724.02 --> 2725.64]  You are loved of God.
+[2725.64 --> 2734.66]  And so those loved of God, do not be surprised at the fiery ordeal that's come upon you to test you.
+[2735.90 --> 2739.90]  Now, we're going to spend a moment in that word test, but just quickly,
+[2740.24 --> 2748.54]  that word surprise, the do not be surprised, is the same word that Peter used back in verse 4 of this chapter.
+[2748.54 --> 2750.98]  Now, we didn't read that, but Peter says there,
+[2751.42 --> 2757.32]  They, that is the pagan world around, the people who are not part of the church family of God,
+[2757.52 --> 2766.16]  they are surprised that you do not join them in their reckless wild living, and they heap abuse on you.
+[2767.00 --> 2776.06]  So for Peter, by using that word in two places, it is a contrast of expectations, right?
+[2776.06 --> 2780.00]  They are surprised, and we shouldn't be surprised.
+[2780.96 --> 2786.00]  They are surprised by what we as Christians do, and the way we as Christians live together,
+[2786.50 --> 2792.68]  and we as Christians aren't surprised by their reactions to that,
+[2792.76 --> 2800.50]  and by the trials, the suffering, or the testing that comes as a result of being Christian.
+[2800.50 --> 2811.76]  And instead of surprise, then, Peter wants us to reframe, or to rightly frame,
+[2812.02 --> 2816.92]  what those trials are, what those fiery ordeals might be.
+[2817.76 --> 2821.86]  He says that they come to test you.
+[2823.20 --> 2826.70]  Now, what is a test for?
+[2826.70 --> 2834.08]  The word that's used here by Peter in Greek, in the original language that this is written in,
+[2834.14 --> 2838.60]  is used in a few other places as well, and so we can use those to help us understand.
+[2839.46 --> 2842.78]  In Matthew 6, Jesus teaches us to pray by saying,
+[2843.00 --> 2844.48]  Lead us not into temptation.
+[2845.36 --> 2847.98]  That word, temptation, is the same one that Peter uses.
+[2848.62 --> 2850.84]  So we could say, lead us not into testing.
+[2850.84 --> 2857.62]  Or in Luke 8, in the parable of the sower, you remember that story that Jesus tells,
+[2859.20 --> 2865.84]  the seed that gets cast out in among the weeds, Jesus explains, he says,
+[2865.96 --> 2868.64]  In the time of testing, they fall away.
+[2869.84 --> 2874.26]  Or again, in 1 Corinthians 10, Paul there writes,
+[2874.26 --> 2879.58]  No trial has come to you except that which is common to all.
+[2880.20 --> 2882.12]  The word trial is the same one.
+[2883.02 --> 2885.86]  We looked recently in this church in the book of James.
+[2886.00 --> 2887.26]  James 1.21 says,
+[2887.38 --> 2893.58]  Consider it pure joy, brothers and sisters, when you face many trials of many kinds.
+[2895.64 --> 2899.58]  So what is the purpose of a test or of a trial?
+[2899.58 --> 2900.08]  Right?
+[2901.18 --> 2902.20]  And here's the thing.
+[2902.28 --> 2908.88]  When you are in school, you have a test in order to prove to the teacher or to the professor
+[2908.88 --> 2910.56]  that this is what you've learned.
+[2912.04 --> 2913.80]  Is that what Peter means?
+[2915.68 --> 2916.18]  Right?
+[2916.26 --> 2921.80]  And in this case then, if a test is to prove what we have learned to the teacher,
+[2922.04 --> 2924.92]  in that case, would the teacher here be God?
+[2926.22 --> 2926.68]  Right?
+[2926.68 --> 2933.82]  Are tests in life and trials and temptations, are they to prove to God that we've got it all figured out?
+[2933.88 --> 2935.06]  That we've got it right?
+[2935.14 --> 2938.26]  That, you know, in the core of our being we've really changed?
+[2938.82 --> 2939.06]  Right?
+[2939.08 --> 2942.66]  That we've checked all the doctrine boxes of knowing what to do.
+[2942.74 --> 2946.88]  We can answer all the Heidelberg Catechism or New City Catechism questions.
+[2947.24 --> 2947.44]  Right?
+[2947.50 --> 2949.20]  And that we've now made it?
+[2950.32 --> 2951.70]  Is that what a test is like?
+[2951.70 --> 2958.18]  And if that's what a test is like, are we able to, at some point in that journey, say to the teacher,
+[2958.84 --> 2959.84]  you should have taught me better?
+[2962.32 --> 2967.64]  Or is a test in Peter's construction, it's not going to surprise you, I think it's this latter one,
+[2967.64 --> 2973.48]  is it more like a weightlifter going for a personal best?
+[2974.48 --> 2974.60]  Right?
+[2974.66 --> 2975.10]  A PB.
+[2976.10 --> 2976.30]  Right?
+[2976.34 --> 2987.14]  And that if you lift a max weight until failure or you increase your bench press weight until you can only do one clean, proper form, drop and press.
+[2987.38 --> 2987.54]  Right?
+[2987.58 --> 2989.44]  That's your fail point.
+[2989.54 --> 2991.28]  That's your new personal best.
+[2991.28 --> 2996.42]  And in that case, right, that's a test of your personal ability.
+[2996.54 --> 2998.22]  In that case, who is the test for?
+[2999.56 --> 3000.92]  The test is for you.
+[3002.02 --> 3009.88]  As you learn what your personal best is, as you learn what your limit is, I think that is what Peter has in mind.
+[3010.46 --> 3010.64]  Right?
+[3010.66 --> 3015.90]  That the test, the trial, the struggle isn't to prove your faith to God.
+[3015.90 --> 3022.26]  It's to prove your faith genuine or to make your faith stronger to you.
+[3023.84 --> 3029.76]  And that's why, ultimately, you can rejoice, if we follow the logic of Peter, when the trial comes,
+[3030.02 --> 3034.42]  because it means that you are participating in the sufferings of Christ.
+[3034.54 --> 3034.60]  Right?
+[3034.84 --> 3035.76]  Here's what I mean.
+[3035.76 --> 3042.86]  When the world does to us as Christians what it did to Jesus in his life and death,
+[3042.98 --> 3048.50]  it can only be because when they look at us, they see Jesus.
+[3050.54 --> 3056.08]  If you are insulted because of the name of Christ, you are blessed, Peter says,
+[3056.32 --> 3060.08]  for the spirit of glory and of God rests on you.
+[3060.08 --> 3067.62]  Have you ever been made fun of for being Christian?
+[3068.78 --> 3072.60]  Have you ever been looked down on or been ridiculed for being Christian?
+[3072.68 --> 3079.82]  Have you ever been passed over for a promotion or not gotten a job because you don't fit the company culture
+[3079.82 --> 3084.12]  that has the idolatry of busyness and profit at any cost?
+[3084.12 --> 3089.22]  Or have your teammates not invited you to the after party?
+[3089.64 --> 3094.24]  Or have your teammates gotten quiet when you walk into the locker room after the game
+[3094.24 --> 3096.28]  just because you've entered that space?
+[3097.46 --> 3104.90]  Or how about a family member who just doesn't get it when you're starting to grow in faith?
+[3105.26 --> 3108.60]  Who just doesn't understand your new Christian faith?
+[3109.48 --> 3112.62]  When these things happen to you, what do you feel?
+[3112.62 --> 3116.00]  What's going on in your heart in that moment?
+[3116.80 --> 3121.92]  And to be frank, if those things never happen to you, why not?
+[3130.96 --> 3134.78]  Do you rejoice when you're ridiculed?
+[3135.30 --> 3138.00]  Do you feel blessed when you are insulted?
+[3138.28 --> 3139.62]  Do you glorify God?
+[3139.62 --> 3139.64]  Do you glorify God?
+[3142.62 --> 3146.20]  Or do you get scared?
+[3148.70 --> 3155.32]  Are you ashamed or embarrassed and worried about what they might be thinking of you?
+[3160.84 --> 3164.76]  We're going to live in that tension for a little while this morning.
+[3164.76 --> 3170.70]  To help us live in that tension, I want you to hear this.
+[3172.94 --> 3176.22]  The glory of Jesus in the cross
+[3176.22 --> 3181.78]  is the same as the glory of Jesus in the crown.
+[3182.64 --> 3185.10]  Now, I'm going to use that image and that phrase
+[3185.10 --> 3186.90]  for the rest of our time together this morning.
+[3186.90 --> 3191.46]  So, let it situate and land and percolate in your mind space, right?
+[3191.50 --> 3193.12]  The cross and the crown.
+[3194.88 --> 3195.58]  Here's what I mean.
+[3195.64 --> 3198.54]  The glory of Jesus in the crown, right,
+[3198.60 --> 3200.46]  is referenced to his resurrection,
+[3200.98 --> 3202.58]  to his exaltation.
+[3202.84 --> 3205.86]  The glory of Jesus in the crown is the empty tomb
+[3205.86 --> 3208.78]  and his ascension to the right hand of the Father.
+[3208.78 --> 3213.72]  The glory of Jesus in the crown is his return to this world as king
+[3213.72 --> 3216.24]  over all creation in the consummation,
+[3216.56 --> 3217.68]  the end of history,
+[3217.94 --> 3221.44]  when that celestial city comes down forever
+[3221.44 --> 3223.72]  and heaven and earth are one
+[3223.72 --> 3224.70]  and there is no temple
+[3224.70 --> 3226.58]  because God has made his dwelling among us
+[3226.58 --> 3231.32]  and Jesus lives here with us as face to face.
+[3231.32 --> 3233.92]  That's the glory of the crown.
+[3235.68 --> 3236.04]  And,
+[3236.60 --> 3242.80]  and there is glory in the cross.
+[3243.80 --> 3248.46]  The glory in the cross is his suffering, right?
+[3248.50 --> 3250.52]  There's glory in his agony.
+[3250.78 --> 3252.74]  There's glory in his death.
+[3252.90 --> 3255.52]  There is glory in Jesus emptying himself
+[3255.52 --> 3257.78]  and taking on the nature of a slave.
+[3257.94 --> 3261.30]  There is glory in him becoming obedient unto death.
+[3261.74 --> 3263.74]  Even death on the cross.
+[3263.82 --> 3264.12]  And in fact,
+[3264.36 --> 3266.08]  let me just stay right there for a minute, right?
+[3266.14 --> 3267.48]  Here in Philippians 2,
+[3268.80 --> 3269.40]  Paul writes,
+[3269.86 --> 3270.22]  Jesus,
+[3271.38 --> 3273.82]  being in very nature God,
+[3274.14 --> 3276.06]  did not consider equality with God
+[3276.06 --> 3278.12]  something to be used for his own advantage.
+[3278.78 --> 3279.04]  Rather,
+[3279.26 --> 3280.68]  he made himself nothing
+[3280.68 --> 3283.20]  by taking on the very nature of a slave,
+[3283.58 --> 3286.02]  being made in human likeness.
+[3286.02 --> 3288.36]  And being found in appearance as a man,
+[3288.46 --> 3289.56]  he humbled himself
+[3289.56 --> 3292.52]  by becoming obedient unto death.
+[3292.68 --> 3294.48]  Even death on the cross.
+[3294.60 --> 3294.82]  And then,
+[3295.16 --> 3295.84]  hear this word,
+[3296.40 --> 3297.02]  therefore.
+[3299.56 --> 3301.90]  God exalted him to the highest place
+[3301.90 --> 3302.88]  and gave him the name
+[3302.88 --> 3304.80]  that is above every name.
+[3305.72 --> 3306.42]  Now hear that, right?
+[3306.54 --> 3308.64]  He became obedient unto death.
+[3308.64 --> 3309.92]  Even death on a cross.
+[3310.10 --> 3310.88]  And therefore,
+[3311.40 --> 3311.56]  right?
+[3311.64 --> 3312.02]  Therefore,
+[3312.02 --> 3313.82]  because of that,
+[3314.18 --> 3315.42]  God exalted him
+[3315.42 --> 3316.64]  to the highest place.
+[3317.36 --> 3318.92]  The glory of the cross
+[3318.92 --> 3320.34]  is the road
+[3320.34 --> 3321.74]  to the glory of the crown.
+[3322.54 --> 3324.88]  The cross precedes the crown.
+[3325.02 --> 3326.12]  There is no resurrection
+[3326.12 --> 3327.26]  without the cross.
+[3327.40 --> 3328.62]  There is no exaltation
+[3328.62 --> 3329.50]  without the cross.
+[3329.62 --> 3331.36]  There is no seated at the right hand
+[3331.36 --> 3332.44]  of God the Father Almighty
+[3332.44 --> 3333.54]  without the cross.
+[3333.66 --> 3335.84]  There is no celestial city come down
+[3335.84 --> 3337.14]  without the cross.
+[3337.14 --> 3338.76]  The glory of the cross
+[3338.76 --> 3340.92]  precedes the glory of the crown.
+[3342.06 --> 3344.10]  And you shouldn't be surprised
+[3344.10 --> 3346.26]  that it's the same way for you.
+[3349.30 --> 3349.92]  And yeah,
+[3350.22 --> 3352.02]  real talk for a moment, right?
+[3352.26 --> 3353.38]  Most of us
+[3353.38 --> 3355.08]  want the glory of the crown
+[3355.08 --> 3357.88]  without the cross.
+[3359.52 --> 3360.04]  Right?
+[3360.04 --> 3365.20]  We want the whole rich reward
+[3365.20 --> 3367.38]  without counting the cost.
+[3368.12 --> 3370.30]  We want the transformed life
+[3370.30 --> 3371.62]  of abundance and prosperity
+[3371.62 --> 3372.92]  without the death
+[3372.92 --> 3375.12]  that must come first.
+[3376.34 --> 3377.90]  But the glory of the cross
+[3377.90 --> 3378.88]  is what brings
+[3378.88 --> 3380.00]  the glory of the crown.
+[3381.56 --> 3382.76]  Let me be really clear
+[3382.76 --> 3383.48]  about this, right?
+[3383.60 --> 3384.42]  As Christians,
+[3384.68 --> 3387.12]  we are living in hope.
+[3387.26 --> 3388.98]  We have a living hope.
+[3388.98 --> 3389.72]  As Christians,
+[3389.88 --> 3390.74]  there is a peace
+[3390.74 --> 3391.76]  that surpasses
+[3391.76 --> 3392.96]  all understanding.
+[3393.36 --> 3393.88]  As Christians,
+[3394.02 --> 3395.16]  we know and believe
+[3395.16 --> 3396.28]  that there is a blessing
+[3396.28 --> 3397.90]  that is waiting for you
+[3397.90 --> 3398.82]  from God.
+[3399.26 --> 3399.62]  But,
+[3400.66 --> 3401.72]  it is not
+[3401.72 --> 3403.84]  your best life now.
+[3405.22 --> 3405.98]  It is not
+[3405.98 --> 3408.54]  the word of faith movement,
+[3408.80 --> 3410.58]  the name it and claim it idea
+[3410.58 --> 3412.12]  of the new prosperity gospel.
+[3412.56 --> 3413.36]  It is not
+[3413.36 --> 3414.12]  the idea
+[3414.12 --> 3414.76]  that Jesus
+[3414.76 --> 3416.20]  just wants to reveal
+[3416.20 --> 3417.06]  what's been hiding
+[3417.06 --> 3417.86]  inside of you
+[3417.86 --> 3418.74]  all along.
+[3418.98 --> 3421.06]  the crown
+[3421.06 --> 3422.14]  comes
+[3422.14 --> 3423.72]  at the cross
+[3423.72 --> 3425.34]  and with the cross.
+[3426.30 --> 3427.32]  If you are
+[3427.32 --> 3428.12]  insulted
+[3428.12 --> 3429.20]  because of the name
+[3429.20 --> 3429.66]  of Christ,
+[3429.82 --> 3430.86]  you are blessed
+[3430.86 --> 3431.86]  for the spirit
+[3431.86 --> 3432.40]  of glory
+[3432.40 --> 3433.02]  and of God
+[3433.02 --> 3434.22]  rests on you.
+[3434.38 --> 3435.66]  The same spirit
+[3435.66 --> 3436.46]  of glory
+[3436.46 --> 3437.14]  and of God
+[3437.14 --> 3437.78]  who descended
+[3437.78 --> 3438.54]  on Jesus
+[3438.54 --> 3439.70]  when he condescended
+[3439.70 --> 3440.48]  down to us
+[3440.48 --> 3441.70]  and went to the cross
+[3441.70 --> 3442.86]  is now also
+[3442.86 --> 3444.16]  descended on you
+[3444.16 --> 3445.78]  and in you.
+[3445.78 --> 3449.42]  the apostles
+[3449.42 --> 3451.38]  in the early church
+[3451.38 --> 3453.10]  they got this.
+[3453.86 --> 3454.82]  There is a story
+[3454.82 --> 3456.78]  in the book of Acts
+[3456.78 --> 3457.94]  written by Luke
+[3457.94 --> 3459.28]  accounting for the
+[3459.28 --> 3460.00]  development
+[3460.00 --> 3460.66]  and the rise
+[3460.66 --> 3461.40]  of the early church
+[3461.40 --> 3462.64]  and in Acts 5
+[3462.64 --> 3463.70]  the apostles
+[3463.70 --> 3465.18]  of Jesus
+[3465.18 --> 3465.92]  now filled
+[3465.92 --> 3466.74]  with the Holy Spirit
+[3466.74 --> 3467.32]  are called
+[3467.32 --> 3467.92]  to face
+[3467.92 --> 3468.86]  the Sanhedrin.
+[3468.86 --> 3469.90]  The Sanhedrin
+[3469.90 --> 3470.28]  are the
+[3470.28 --> 3471.84]  the religio-political
+[3471.84 --> 3472.96]  ruling class
+[3472.96 --> 3473.90]  in Jerusalem
+[3473.90 --> 3476.02]  and the apostles
+[3476.02 --> 3476.46]  come
+[3476.46 --> 3477.00]  and they are
+[3477.00 --> 3477.96]  flogged
+[3477.96 --> 3478.96]  by the rulers
+[3478.96 --> 3479.68]  and they are ordered
+[3479.68 --> 3480.36]  not to preach
+[3480.36 --> 3481.16]  the name of Jesus
+[3481.16 --> 3482.06]  and then Luke
+[3482.06 --> 3483.08]  writes in Acts 5
+[3483.08 --> 3483.52]  41
+[3483.52 --> 3484.62]  the apostles
+[3484.62 --> 3486.10]  left the Sanhedrin
+[3486.10 --> 3487.54]  rejoicing
+[3487.54 --> 3489.18]  because they had
+[3489.18 --> 3489.64]  been counted
+[3489.64 --> 3490.26]  worthy
+[3490.26 --> 3491.48]  of suffering
+[3491.48 --> 3492.48]  disgrace
+[3492.48 --> 3493.78]  for the name.
+[3496.00 --> 3496.60]  Preaching
+[3496.60 --> 3497.56]  the full gospel
+[3497.56 --> 3498.62]  of Jesus
+[3498.62 --> 3499.82]  the substitutionary
+[3499.82 --> 3500.24]  atonement
+[3500.24 --> 3501.14]  and the victory
+[3501.14 --> 3501.58]  of God
+[3501.58 --> 3502.36]  the cross
+[3502.36 --> 3503.26]  and the crown
+[3503.26 --> 3504.72]  will always be
+[3504.72 --> 3505.36]  folly
+[3505.36 --> 3506.60]  and a stumbling block
+[3506.60 --> 3507.26]  to those who
+[3507.26 --> 3508.18]  don't believe
+[3508.18 --> 3509.14]  but to those
+[3509.14 --> 3510.64]  who are being saved
+[3510.64 --> 3511.50]  it is the power
+[3511.50 --> 3512.02]  of God
+[3512.02 --> 3512.82]  and the wisdom
+[3512.82 --> 3513.32]  of God.
+[3514.38 --> 3515.78]  Paul says in Romans
+[3515.78 --> 3516.28]  1
+[3516.28 --> 3517.66]  I am not ashamed
+[3517.66 --> 3518.46]  of the gospel
+[3518.46 --> 3519.70]  because it is the power
+[3519.70 --> 3521.12]  of God unto salvation
+[3521.12 --> 3522.48]  for all who believe.
+[3523.92 --> 3525.18]  Instead of shame
+[3525.18 --> 3525.90]  in the cross
+[3525.90 --> 3526.78]  we can rejoice
+[3526.78 --> 3527.96]  in suffering.
+[3528.80 --> 3529.52]  Listen again
+[3529.52 --> 3531.12]  to what the scriptures say.
+[3532.40 --> 3533.02]  We boast
+[3533.02 --> 3534.02]  in the hope
+[3534.02 --> 3535.28]  of the glory of God.
+[3535.38 --> 3536.18]  That's the crown
+[3536.18 --> 3537.60]  not only so
+[3537.60 --> 3538.70]  but we also glory
+[3538.70 --> 3539.76]  in our sufferings
+[3539.76 --> 3540.52]  because we know
+[3540.52 --> 3541.18]  that suffering
+[3541.18 --> 3542.32]  produces perseverance
+[3542.32 --> 3543.16]  perseverance
+[3543.16 --> 3543.82]  character
+[3543.82 --> 3544.68]  and character
+[3544.68 --> 3545.38]  hope.
+[3546.66 --> 3547.84]  That's the cross.
+[3548.98 --> 3550.48]  The spirit himself
+[3550.48 --> 3552.24]  testifies with our spirits
+[3552.24 --> 3553.54]  that we are children
+[3553.54 --> 3554.12]  of God
+[3554.12 --> 3555.56]  and now if we are children
+[3555.56 --> 3556.74]  then we are heirs.
+[3556.90 --> 3557.74]  Heirs of God
+[3557.74 --> 3558.58]  and co-heirs
+[3558.58 --> 3559.56]  with Christ.
+[3560.02 --> 3560.66]  Now that is one
+[3560.66 --> 3561.84]  of my favorite lines
+[3561.84 --> 3562.94]  in all of scripture.
+[3563.30 --> 3564.12]  We are children.
+[3564.36 --> 3565.06]  If we are children
+[3565.06 --> 3565.88]  then we are heirs.
+[3566.08 --> 3566.86]  Heirs of God
+[3566.86 --> 3568.16]  and co-heirs with Christ.
+[3568.16 --> 3569.26]  But even I
+[3569.26 --> 3571.22]  forget the second part
+[3571.22 --> 3571.72]  of that line.
+[3573.16 --> 3573.92]  If indeed
+[3573.92 --> 3576.50]  we share in his sufferings
+[3576.50 --> 3579.10]  in order that we may also
+[3579.10 --> 3580.04]  share in his glory.
+[3582.04 --> 3582.72]  Children
+[3582.72 --> 3585.40]  who share in the cross
+[3585.40 --> 3587.06]  will share in the crown.
+[3587.06 --> 3591.60]  But beloved
+[3591.60 --> 3593.56]  be wary
+[3593.56 --> 3594.76]  of so-called
+[3594.76 --> 3595.54]  Bible teachers
+[3595.54 --> 3597.30]  who will tell you
+[3597.30 --> 3598.28]  that you can have
+[3598.28 --> 3598.96]  the crown
+[3598.96 --> 3600.92]  without the cross.
+[3602.40 --> 3604.16]  Do not be surprised
+[3604.16 --> 3605.70]  that this test
+[3605.70 --> 3607.02]  has come upon you.
+[3608.62 --> 3609.64]  Jesus lived
+[3609.64 --> 3610.06]  the life
+[3610.06 --> 3610.76]  I should have lived
+[3610.76 --> 3611.66]  and died the death
+[3611.66 --> 3612.60]  that I deserved
+[3612.60 --> 3613.32]  and by grace
+[3613.32 --> 3614.12]  through faith
+[3614.12 --> 3615.60]  as the free gift
+[3615.60 --> 3616.14]  of God
+[3616.14 --> 3617.22]  he grants me
+[3617.22 --> 3618.42]  the righteousness
+[3618.42 --> 3619.36]  of Jesus
+[3619.36 --> 3621.78]  and by the free gift
+[3621.78 --> 3622.40]  of grace
+[3622.40 --> 3623.78]  he declares you
+[3623.78 --> 3624.72]  a righteous
+[3624.72 --> 3626.52]  child of God.
+[3626.86 --> 3627.72]  He names you
+[3627.72 --> 3628.40]  a son
+[3628.40 --> 3629.46]  and a daughter.
+[3630.38 --> 3631.06]  He calls you
+[3631.06 --> 3631.78]  his own
+[3631.78 --> 3634.40]  and that grace
+[3634.40 --> 3637.12]  oh that amazing
+[3637.12 --> 3638.16]  grace
+[3638.16 --> 3639.40]  is free
+[3639.40 --> 3640.50]  to you.
+[3642.24 --> 3643.60]  But make no mistake
+[3643.60 --> 3644.44]  it's not cheap.
+[3645.60 --> 3646.64]  That grace
+[3646.64 --> 3647.48]  cost Jesus
+[3647.48 --> 3648.28]  everything.
+[3650.54 --> 3651.58]  That grace
+[3651.58 --> 3653.90]  is what led
+[3653.90 --> 3654.90]  Jesus to the cross.
+[3655.98 --> 3656.90]  And now
+[3656.90 --> 3657.42]  you
+[3657.42 --> 3659.12]  don't
+[3659.12 --> 3659.96]  cheapen
+[3659.96 --> 3661.08]  the cross
+[3661.08 --> 3662.22]  because you
+[3662.22 --> 3663.00]  aren't willing
+[3663.00 --> 3663.84]  as a disciple
+[3663.84 --> 3665.06]  to count the cost.
+[3666.02 --> 3666.62]  The grace
+[3666.62 --> 3667.10]  of God
+[3667.10 --> 3667.94]  is absolutely
+[3667.94 --> 3668.74]  and utterly
+[3668.74 --> 3669.60]  free.
+[3671.14 --> 3672.80]  But being a Christian
+[3672.80 --> 3674.06]  may cost you
+[3674.06 --> 3674.62]  your life.
+[3676.10 --> 3676.56]  Now that's not
+[3676.56 --> 3677.10]  a reality
+[3677.10 --> 3678.04]  that many of us
+[3678.04 --> 3678.96]  are familiar with.
+[3680.38 --> 3681.34]  But being a Christian
+[3681.34 --> 3681.94]  may cost you
+[3681.94 --> 3682.42]  your job.
+[3683.94 --> 3684.96]  I know some of you
+[3684.96 --> 3685.36]  are familiar
+[3685.36 --> 3686.08]  with that reality.
+[3687.44 --> 3688.02]  Being a Christian
+[3688.02 --> 3688.64]  may cost you
+[3688.64 --> 3689.42]  your popularity.
+[3689.98 --> 3690.50]  It may cost you
+[3690.50 --> 3690.96]  your power.
+[3691.28 --> 3691.86]  It may cost you
+[3691.86 --> 3692.42]  your status.
+[3692.68 --> 3693.42]  It may cost you
+[3693.42 --> 3694.16]  your vacation.
+[3696.16 --> 3696.86]  Being a Christian
+[3696.86 --> 3698.30]  will cost you
+[3698.30 --> 3699.78]  whatever crown
+[3699.78 --> 3701.00]  of fading glory
+[3701.00 --> 3702.04]  you are choosing
+[3702.04 --> 3703.72]  instead of Jesus.
+[3704.72 --> 3705.92]  Whatever prosperity
+[3705.92 --> 3706.96]  you are pursuing
+[3706.96 --> 3707.96]  in place of the
+[3707.96 --> 3709.02]  imperishable crown
+[3709.02 --> 3709.90]  of glory
+[3709.90 --> 3711.04]  Jesus provides.
+[3715.68 --> 3716.70]  And whatever
+[3716.70 --> 3717.90]  it costs you
+[3717.90 --> 3719.44]  whether it is
+[3719.44 --> 3719.92]  your life
+[3719.92 --> 3720.76]  your job
+[3720.76 --> 3721.36]  your status
+[3721.36 --> 3722.12]  your power
+[3722.12 --> 3722.64]  even if it's
+[3722.64 --> 3723.52]  your vacation
+[3723.52 --> 3724.86]  whatever it costs
+[3724.86 --> 3725.24]  you
+[3725.24 --> 3726.66]  it
+[3726.66 --> 3727.80]  is
+[3727.80 --> 3729.04]  worth it.
+[3729.04 --> 3730.88]  right that crown
+[3730.88 --> 3732.58]  that future reality
+[3732.58 --> 3733.74]  lived with God
+[3733.74 --> 3734.26]  in Jesus
+[3734.26 --> 3735.28]  face to face
+[3735.28 --> 3736.20]  is really
+[3736.20 --> 3736.90]  truly
+[3736.90 --> 3737.94]  eternally
+[3737.94 --> 3738.96]  worth it.
+[3740.72 --> 3741.90]  The cross
+[3741.90 --> 3743.22]  and the crown
+[3743.22 --> 3745.16]  they come together
+[3745.16 --> 3745.92]  in the life
+[3745.92 --> 3746.34]  death
+[3746.34 --> 3746.98]  resurrection
+[3746.98 --> 3747.92]  and exaltation
+[3747.92 --> 3749.06]  of Jesus
+[3749.06 --> 3750.52]  and do not be
+[3750.52 --> 3751.14]  surprised
+[3751.14 --> 3752.84]  when it is so
+[3752.84 --> 3753.54]  for you
+[3753.54 --> 3754.54]  too.
+[3754.54 --> 3757.52]  if you are
+[3757.52 --> 3757.98]  insulted
+[3757.98 --> 3758.62]  because of the
+[3758.62 --> 3759.24]  name of Christ
+[3759.24 --> 3760.14]  you are
+[3760.14 --> 3760.84]  blessed.
+[3761.02 --> 3761.48]  Do you believe
+[3761.48 --> 3762.30]  that this morning?
+[3763.02 --> 3764.18]  If you suffer
+[3764.18 --> 3765.14]  as a Christian
+[3765.14 --> 3766.32]  do not be ashamed
+[3766.32 --> 3767.68]  but praise God
+[3767.68 --> 3768.38]  that you bear
+[3768.38 --> 3768.80]  that name.
+[3768.90 --> 3769.68]  Can you do that
+[3769.68 --> 3770.64]  this morning?
+[3772.68 --> 3773.20]  Remember
+[3773.20 --> 3774.14]  the very words
+[3774.14 --> 3774.68]  of Jesus
+[3774.68 --> 3775.78]  Jesus who says
+[3775.78 --> 3777.20]  blessed are you
+[3777.20 --> 3777.96]  when people
+[3777.96 --> 3778.84]  insult you
+[3778.84 --> 3779.92]  and persecute you
+[3779.92 --> 3780.62]  and falsely say
+[3780.62 --> 3781.50]  all kinds of evil
+[3781.50 --> 3781.98]  against you
+[3781.98 --> 3782.60]  because of me
+[3782.60 --> 3784.16]  rejoice and be glad
+[3784.16 --> 3785.00]  because great
+[3785.00 --> 3786.22]  is your reward
+[3786.22 --> 3786.94]  in heaven
+[3786.94 --> 3787.52]  the cross
+[3787.52 --> 3788.34]  and the crown
+[3788.34 --> 3788.70]  again
+[3788.70 --> 3790.12]  for in the same way
+[3790.12 --> 3791.00]  they persecuted
+[3791.00 --> 3791.70]  the prophets
+[3791.70 --> 3792.92]  who were before you.
+[3793.52 --> 3794.74]  The glory of the cross
+[3794.74 --> 3795.72]  and the glory
+[3795.72 --> 3796.40]  of the crown
+[3796.40 --> 3798.66]  in that order.
+[3799.70 --> 3800.38]  That
+[3800.38 --> 3801.90]  is the right
+[3801.90 --> 3803.10]  struggle.
+[3804.30 --> 3804.84]  Don't settle
+[3804.84 --> 3806.60]  for a lesser crown
+[3806.60 --> 3807.20]  because
+[3807.20 --> 3808.44]  you are ashamed
+[3808.44 --> 3809.16]  of the cross.
+[3810.16 --> 3810.92]  Don't settle
+[3810.92 --> 3811.92]  for a lesser crown
+[3811.92 --> 3812.30]  because
+[3812.30 --> 3813.74]  you are afraid
+[3813.74 --> 3814.96]  of the cross.
+[3815.22 --> 3816.12]  Don't be ashamed
+[3816.12 --> 3816.80]  of the gospel
+[3816.80 --> 3818.06]  but declare it
+[3818.06 --> 3820.40]  and if you suffer
+[3820.40 --> 3822.04]  or maybe better
+[3822.04 --> 3822.80]  when
+[3822.80 --> 3824.32]  you suffer
+[3824.32 --> 3826.64]  know this
+[3826.64 --> 3827.44]  that we
+[3827.44 --> 3828.32]  suffer
+[3828.32 --> 3829.64]  with you.
+[3830.72 --> 3831.46]  The trial
+[3831.46 --> 3832.36]  and the test
+[3832.36 --> 3833.66]  isn't for you
+[3833.66 --> 3834.26]  alone
+[3834.26 --> 3835.44]  because you are
+[3835.44 --> 3836.16]  not alone.
+[3837.78 --> 3838.54]  Not only
+[3838.54 --> 3839.66]  does the spirit
+[3839.66 --> 3840.38]  of the glory
+[3840.38 --> 3840.82]  of God
+[3840.82 --> 3841.82]  rest on you
+[3841.82 --> 3843.50]  and go
+[3843.50 --> 3844.30]  in you
+[3844.30 --> 3845.40]  and with you
+[3845.40 --> 3846.34]  but we
+[3846.34 --> 3847.84]  go
+[3847.84 --> 3849.20]  with you.
+[3849.30 --> 3849.80]  We all
+[3849.80 --> 3850.50]  go
+[3850.50 --> 3851.44]  together
+[3851.44 --> 3854.32]  and we all
+[3854.32 --> 3855.08]  Paul writes
+[3855.08 --> 3856.34]  with unveiled
+[3856.34 --> 3856.86]  face
+[3856.86 --> 3857.96]  beholding the glory
+[3857.96 --> 3858.48]  of the Lord
+[3858.48 --> 3859.58]  are being transformed
+[3859.58 --> 3861.12]  into the same image
+[3861.12 --> 3861.98]  from one degree
+[3861.98 --> 3862.66]  of glory
+[3862.66 --> 3863.74]  to another
+[3863.74 --> 3864.60]  for this
+[3864.60 --> 3865.78]  comes from the Lord
+[3865.78 --> 3866.76]  who is
+[3866.76 --> 3867.56]  the spirit.
+[3867.56 --> 3870.00]  Do not be surprised
+[3870.00 --> 3871.84]  when your crown
+[3871.84 --> 3872.90]  comes through
+[3872.90 --> 3873.72]  a cross.
+[3875.00 --> 3875.54]  Instead
+[3875.54 --> 3877.32]  surprise them
+[3877.32 --> 3878.88]  by rejoicing
+[3878.88 --> 3880.16]  in that struggle
+[3880.16 --> 3882.00]  in the right struggle.
+[3882.00 --> 3888.98]  if you suffer
+[3888.98 --> 3890.02]  Peter writes
+[3890.02 --> 3892.10]  it should not be
+[3892.10 --> 3892.72]  as a murderer
+[3892.72 --> 3893.84]  or a thief
+[3893.84 --> 3895.10]  or any kind
+[3895.10 --> 3895.92]  of criminal
+[3895.92 --> 3897.78]  or even
+[3897.78 --> 3899.54]  as a meddler.
+[3900.70 --> 3901.16]  I want to be
+[3901.16 --> 3901.82]  really clear
+[3901.82 --> 3902.36]  with us
+[3902.36 --> 3902.92]  this morning
+[3902.92 --> 3903.28]  because
+[3903.28 --> 3904.30]  there's a lot
+[3904.30 --> 3904.90]  of talk
+[3904.90 --> 3905.36]  happening
+[3905.36 --> 3906.08]  right now
+[3906.08 --> 3907.12]  about the struggle
+[3907.12 --> 3908.12]  that Christians
+[3908.12 --> 3908.80]  are facing.
+[3909.60 --> 3910.00]  There's a lot
+[3910.00 --> 3910.40]  of talk
+[3910.40 --> 3911.34]  about rights
+[3911.34 --> 3912.20]  and freedoms
+[3912.20 --> 3912.94]  my rights
+[3912.94 --> 3913.76]  and your freedoms
+[3913.76 --> 3914.96]  and the like
+[3914.96 --> 3915.56]  and there's a lot
+[3915.56 --> 3916.04]  of talk
+[3916.04 --> 3917.22]  about the infringement
+[3917.22 --> 3919.14]  of those rights.
+[3922.32 --> 3923.02]  That
+[3923.02 --> 3924.70]  is not
+[3924.70 --> 3926.24]  the same
+[3926.24 --> 3927.54]  as persecution.
+[3933.18 --> 3934.10]  But even
+[3934.10 --> 3934.88]  if it was
+[3934.88 --> 3937.00]  there's so much
+[3937.00 --> 3937.34]  more.
+[3938.30 --> 3939.06]  That Greek
+[3939.06 --> 3939.46]  word
+[3939.46 --> 3940.34]  meddler
+[3940.34 --> 3940.74]  there
+[3940.74 --> 3940.96]  that
+[3940.96 --> 3941.40]  if you
+[3941.40 --> 3941.52]  are
+[3941.52 --> 3942.00]  insulted
+[3942.00 --> 3942.44]  if you
+[3942.44 --> 3942.80]  suffer
+[3942.80 --> 3942.94]  it
+[3942.94 --> 3943.06]  should
+[3943.06 --> 3943.22]  not
+[3943.22 --> 3943.32]  be
+[3943.32 --> 3943.44]  as
+[3943.44 --> 3943.56]  a
+[3943.56 --> 3943.78]  murderer
+[3943.78 --> 3944.10]  okay
+[3944.10 --> 3944.72]  we get that
+[3944.72 --> 3945.18]  should not be
+[3945.18 --> 3945.64]  as a thief
+[3945.64 --> 3946.02]  okay
+[3946.02 --> 3946.82]  yeah we get
+[3946.82 --> 3947.10]  that
+[3947.10 --> 3947.76]  we're not
+[3947.76 --> 3948.58]  going to steal
+[3948.58 --> 3949.12]  or kill
+[3949.12 --> 3949.56]  sure
+[3949.56 --> 3951.20]  or be any
+[3951.20 --> 3951.66]  other kind
+[3951.66 --> 3952.10]  of criminal
+[3952.10 --> 3953.52]  Lord willing
+[3953.52 --> 3954.98]  or even
+[3954.98 --> 3956.22]  as a meddler.
+[3957.90 --> 3958.70]  Now that word
+[3958.70 --> 3959.30]  meddler
+[3959.30 --> 3959.90]  is not really
+[3959.90 --> 3960.92]  common to us
+[3960.92 --> 3962.26]  in English
+[3962.26 --> 3963.70]  the Greek word
+[3963.70 --> 3965.42]  actually means
+[3965.42 --> 3965.74]  like
+[3965.74 --> 3966.92]  busy body
+[3966.92 --> 3968.84]  right
+[3968.84 --> 3969.76]  involving
+[3969.76 --> 3970.46]  yourself
+[3970.46 --> 3970.94]  in the
+[3970.94 --> 3971.36]  affairs
+[3971.36 --> 3972.18]  of others
+[3972.18 --> 3973.54]  without
+[3973.54 --> 3974.26]  expertise
+[3974.26 --> 3975.02]  or warrant
+[3975.02 --> 3977.58]  that's the
+[3977.58 --> 3978.00]  definition
+[3978.00 --> 3978.58]  of meddler
+[3978.58 --> 3984.70]  that
+[3984.70 --> 3986.68]  is common
+[3986.68 --> 3987.78]  in the world
+[3987.78 --> 3988.24]  right now
+[3988.24 --> 3990.84]  and we
+[3990.84 --> 3991.42]  are not
+[3991.42 --> 3991.76]  exempt
+[3991.76 --> 3992.30]  from that
+[3992.30 --> 3992.74]  charge
+[3992.74 --> 3993.52]  involving
+[3993.52 --> 3993.92]  yourselves
+[3993.92 --> 3994.16]  in the
+[3994.16 --> 3994.42]  affairs
+[3994.42 --> 3994.82]  of others
+[3994.82 --> 3995.10]  without
+[3995.10 --> 3995.74]  expertise
+[3995.74 --> 3996.98]  or warrant
+[3996.98 --> 3999.14]  if you
+[3999.14 --> 3999.74]  suffer
+[3999.74 --> 4001.40]  don't suffer
+[4001.40 --> 4001.76]  for being
+[4001.76 --> 4002.26]  a meddler
+[4002.26 --> 4003.94]  suffer
+[4003.94 --> 4004.66]  for declaring
+[4004.66 --> 4005.30]  the gospel
+[4005.30 --> 4007.18]  if we're
+[4007.18 --> 4007.40]  going to
+[4007.40 --> 4007.76]  entertain
+[4007.76 --> 4008.32]  trials
+[4008.32 --> 4008.94]  and tests
+[4008.94 --> 4009.52]  and be
+[4009.52 --> 4009.84]  able to
+[4009.84 --> 4010.28]  rejoice
+[4010.28 --> 4010.96]  in the
+[4010.96 --> 4011.16]  midst
+[4011.16 --> 4011.52]  of them
+[4011.52 --> 4011.96]  let it
+[4011.96 --> 4012.30]  not be
+[4012.30 --> 4012.60]  because
+[4012.60 --> 4012.84]  we're
+[4012.84 --> 4013.46]  crying
+[4013.46 --> 4013.98]  about
+[4013.98 --> 4014.54]  rights
+[4014.54 --> 4014.90]  that may
+[4014.90 --> 4015.24]  have been
+[4015.24 --> 4015.64]  mitigated
+[4015.64 --> 4016.06]  or taken
+[4016.06 --> 4016.38]  away
+[4016.38 --> 4016.86]  let it
+[4016.86 --> 4016.98]  be
+[4016.98 --> 4017.34]  because
+[4017.34 --> 4017.88]  we
+[4017.88 --> 4018.14]  are
+[4018.14 --> 4018.80]  standing
+[4018.80 --> 4019.14]  with
+[4019.14 --> 4019.80]  Jesus
+[4019.80 --> 4026.72]  now I
+[4026.72 --> 4026.86]  do
+[4026.86 --> 4027.44]  believe
+[4027.44 --> 4028.90]  that a
+[4028.90 --> 4029.22]  time is
+[4029.22 --> 4029.52]  coming
+[4029.52 --> 4030.02]  and maybe
+[4030.02 --> 4030.68]  has already
+[4030.68 --> 4031.04]  come
+[4031.04 --> 4031.30]  when
+[4031.30 --> 4032.84]  real
+[4032.84 --> 4033.82]  both
+[4033.82 --> 4034.50]  soft
+[4034.50 --> 4035.00]  and
+[4035.00 --> 4036.32]  actual
+[4036.32 --> 4037.10]  persecution
+[4037.10 --> 4038.30]  will happen
+[4038.30 --> 4039.16]  for Christians
+[4039.16 --> 4039.92]  in the world
+[4039.92 --> 4040.20]  today
+[4040.20 --> 4041.04]  and I do
+[4041.04 --> 4041.40]  believe
+[4041.40 --> 4041.72]  that there
+[4041.72 --> 4042.04]  is a
+[4042.04 --> 4042.62]  generation
+[4042.62 --> 4043.70]  of Christians
+[4043.70 --> 4044.76]  rising up
+[4044.76 --> 4045.28]  right now
+[4045.28 --> 4045.72]  who will
+[4045.72 --> 4046.10]  have to
+[4046.10 --> 4046.80]  face this
+[4046.80 --> 4047.26]  because
+[4047.26 --> 4047.82]  the reality
+[4047.82 --> 4048.10]  is
+[4048.10 --> 4048.66]  for those
+[4048.66 --> 4048.96]  of you
+[4048.96 --> 4049.44]  who are
+[4049.44 --> 4050.22]  over 50
+[4050.22 --> 4050.88]  or especially
+[4050.88 --> 4051.30]  those of you
+[4051.30 --> 4051.52]  who are
+[4051.52 --> 4052.30]  over 60
+[4052.30 --> 4053.84]  you will
+[4053.84 --> 4054.52]  in large
+[4054.52 --> 4054.92]  part
+[4054.92 --> 4055.48]  because of
+[4055.48 --> 4055.88]  your
+[4055.88 --> 4057.30]  status
+[4057.30 --> 4057.94]  and relative
+[4057.94 --> 4058.56]  comfort
+[4058.56 --> 4059.06]  and your
+[4059.06 --> 4059.74]  community
+[4059.74 --> 4061.00]  situatedness
+[4061.00 --> 4061.56]  you will
+[4061.56 --> 4061.92]  be able
+[4061.92 --> 4062.74]  to insulate
+[4062.74 --> 4063.24]  yourselves
+[4063.24 --> 4063.94]  from this
+[4063.94 --> 4064.56]  new cultural
+[4064.56 --> 4064.98]  norm
+[4064.98 --> 4066.92]  it's the
+[4066.92 --> 4067.60]  young people
+[4067.60 --> 4068.56]  it's the
+[4068.56 --> 4069.06]  20s
+[4069.06 --> 4069.92]  and 30s
+[4069.92 --> 4070.30]  it's you
+[4070.30 --> 4070.94]  teenagers
+[4070.94 --> 4072.02]  right now
+[4072.02 --> 4072.52]  who are
+[4072.52 --> 4073.08]  really going
+[4073.08 --> 4073.40]  to have
+[4073.40 --> 4074.02]  to endure
+[4074.02 --> 4075.06]  this test
+[4075.06 --> 4076.20]  and learn
+[4076.20 --> 4076.58]  how to
+[4076.58 --> 4077.22]  stand
+[4077.22 --> 4080.10]  I want
+[4080.10 --> 4080.24]  to be
+[4080.24 --> 4080.40]  really
+[4080.40 --> 4080.64]  clear
+[4080.64 --> 4081.12]  I have
+[4081.12 --> 4081.66]  hope
+[4081.66 --> 4083.34]  and I
+[4083.34 --> 4083.76]  have hope
+[4083.76 --> 4084.38]  not because
+[4084.38 --> 4084.72]  I know
+[4084.72 --> 4085.30]  all of you
+[4085.30 --> 4085.78]  although I
+[4085.78 --> 4086.56]  know many
+[4086.56 --> 4086.94]  of you
+[4086.94 --> 4087.30]  and you
+[4087.30 --> 4087.62]  give me
+[4087.62 --> 4088.12]  reason to
+[4088.12 --> 4088.68]  be excited
+[4088.68 --> 4089.44]  I have
+[4089.44 --> 4089.78]  hope
+[4089.78 --> 4090.26]  because
+[4090.26 --> 4091.20]  I know
+[4091.20 --> 4091.88]  Jesus
+[4091.88 --> 4093.42]  I have
+[4093.42 --> 4093.64]  hope
+[4093.64 --> 4093.98]  because
+[4093.98 --> 4094.80]  the spirit
+[4094.80 --> 4095.70]  of glory
+[4095.70 --> 4096.16]  and of
+[4096.16 --> 4096.52]  God
+[4096.52 --> 4097.14]  rests
+[4097.14 --> 4098.02]  on us
+[4098.02 --> 4098.34]  and it
+[4098.34 --> 4098.68]  is in
+[4098.68 --> 4099.50]  him
+[4099.50 --> 4100.34]  that my
+[4100.34 --> 4100.60]  hope
+[4100.60 --> 4101.14]  is found
+[4101.14 --> 4101.60]  first
+[4101.60 --> 4102.46]  and always
+[4102.46 --> 4102.88]  in
+[4102.88 --> 4103.64]  God
+[4103.64 --> 4104.16]  and so
+[4104.16 --> 4104.98]  I believe
+[4104.98 --> 4105.58]  and I
+[4105.58 --> 4105.96]  know
+[4105.96 --> 4106.56]  that God
+[4106.56 --> 4107.80]  will always
+[4107.80 --> 4108.44]  allow his
+[4108.44 --> 4108.84]  church
+[4108.84 --> 4109.98]  to persevere
+[4109.98 --> 4114.64]  but I
+[4114.64 --> 4115.18]  want us
+[4115.18 --> 4116.68]  not just
+[4116.68 --> 4117.62]  to have
+[4117.62 --> 4118.18]  hope
+[4118.18 --> 4119.28]  in an
+[4119.28 --> 4119.68]  unseen
+[4119.68 --> 4120.20]  future
+[4120.20 --> 4122.02]  but to
+[4122.02 --> 4122.60]  be
+[4122.60 --> 4123.16]  that
+[4123.16 --> 4123.90]  visible
+[4123.90 --> 4125.02]  hope
+[4125.02 --> 4125.78]  in the
+[4125.78 --> 4126.08]  world
+[4126.08 --> 4128.44]  you
+[4128.44 --> 4129.30]  can be
+[4129.30 --> 4129.62]  that
+[4129.62 --> 4130.34]  generation
+[4130.34 --> 4131.74]  that rises
+[4131.74 --> 4132.40]  up
+[4132.40 --> 4133.48]  as the
+[4133.48 --> 4133.98]  song says
+[4133.98 --> 4135.24]  with selfless
+[4135.24 --> 4136.18]  faith
+[4136.18 --> 4138.44]  we can
+[4138.44 --> 4138.76]  be
+[4138.76 --> 4139.02]  that
+[4139.02 --> 4139.74]  generation
+[4139.74 --> 4140.46]  of
+[4140.46 --> 4140.88]  Christian
+[4140.88 --> 4141.18]  that
+[4141.18 --> 4141.90]  declares
+[4141.90 --> 4142.90]  the gospel
+[4142.90 --> 4143.50]  of Jesus
+[4143.50 --> 4144.70]  and rejoices
+[4144.70 --> 4145.76]  in our
+[4145.76 --> 4146.62]  suffering
+[4146.62 --> 4147.12]  and our
+[4147.12 --> 4147.54]  trials
+[4147.54 --> 4148.08]  and our
+[4148.08 --> 4148.48]  testing
+[4148.48 --> 4149.58]  because we
+[4149.58 --> 4150.46]  know
+[4150.46 --> 4152.62]  that when
+[4152.62 --> 4153.04]  we face
+[4153.04 --> 4154.08]  trials of
+[4154.08 --> 4154.88]  any
+[4154.88 --> 4155.52]  kind
+[4155.52 --> 4155.98]  it is
+[4155.98 --> 4156.52]  because
+[4156.52 --> 4157.20]  we
+[4157.20 --> 4157.84]  look
+[4157.84 --> 4158.86]  like
+[4158.86 --> 4160.14]  Jesus
+[4160.14 --> 4160.36]  Jesus
+[4160.36 --> 4163.22]  and so
+[4163.22 --> 4163.70]  generation
+[4163.70 --> 4163.98]  of
+[4163.98 --> 4164.44]  Christians
+[4164.44 --> 4165.54]  go
+[4165.54 --> 4166.36]  from this
+[4166.36 --> 4166.82]  place
+[4166.82 --> 4167.48]  looking
+[4167.48 --> 4168.36]  like
+[4168.36 --> 4169.36]  Jesus
+[4169.36 --> 4171.38]  and do
+[4171.38 --> 4171.66]  not be
+[4171.66 --> 4172.32]  surprised
+[4172.32 --> 4174.18]  but instead
+[4174.18 --> 4176.30]  be encouraged
+[4176.30 --> 4177.62]  not be
+[4177.62 --> 4178.10]  afraid
+[4178.10 --> 4179.68]  but instead
+[4179.68 --> 4181.20]  rejoice
+[4181.20 --> 4184.04]  do not
+[4184.04 --> 4184.48]  worry
+[4184.48 --> 4186.06]  but instead
+[4186.06 --> 4187.54]  boldly
+[4187.54 --> 4188.38]  proclaim
+[4188.38 --> 4189.68]  the kingdom
+[4189.68 --> 4190.60]  come
+[4190.60 --> 4191.26]  and the
+[4191.26 --> 4191.60]  kingdom
+[4191.60 --> 4192.66]  coming
+[4192.66 --> 4195.14]  there is
+[4195.14 --> 4195.64]  glory
+[4195.64 --> 4196.14]  in the
+[4196.14 --> 4196.62]  cross
+[4196.62 --> 4198.30]  and there
+[4198.30 --> 4198.54]  will be
+[4198.54 --> 4198.98]  glory
+[4198.98 --> 4200.24]  in the
+[4200.24 --> 4200.60]  crown
+[4200.60 --> 4202.60]  fill your
+[4202.60 --> 4203.14]  eyes
+[4203.14 --> 4204.62]  with God's
+[4204.62 --> 4205.40]  glory
+[4205.40 --> 4206.58]  as we
+[4206.58 --> 4206.96]  go
+[4206.96 --> 4207.82]  today
+[4207.82 --> 4208.66]  amen
+[4208.66 --> 4210.30]  amen
+[4210.30 --> 4211.00]  let's pray
+[4211.00 --> 4211.38]  together
+[4211.38 --> 4216.88]  lord our
+[4216.88 --> 4217.06]  god
+[4217.06 --> 4218.20]  fill us
+[4218.20 --> 4218.68]  to
+[4218.68 --> 4219.68]  overflowing
+[4219.68 --> 4220.60]  with your
+[4220.60 --> 4221.02]  love
+[4221.02 --> 4222.86]  fill us
+[4222.86 --> 4223.28]  to
+[4223.28 --> 4223.98]  overflow
+[4223.98 --> 4224.36]  in
+[4224.36 --> 4225.22]  with your
+[4225.22 --> 4225.98]  majesty
+[4225.98 --> 4226.86]  with an
+[4226.86 --> 4227.34]  experience
+[4227.34 --> 4228.18]  of your
+[4228.18 --> 4228.76]  glory
+[4228.76 --> 4229.22]  so that
+[4229.22 --> 4229.48]  we
+[4229.48 --> 4230.26]  with
+[4230.26 --> 4231.08]  unveiled
+[4231.08 --> 4231.58]  faces
+[4231.58 --> 4231.96]  can
+[4231.96 --> 4232.60]  radiate
+[4232.60 --> 4233.12]  the image
+[4233.12 --> 4233.50]  of Jesus
+[4233.50 --> 4233.98]  Christ
+[4233.98 --> 4234.86]  to the
+[4234.86 --> 4235.18]  world
+[4235.18 --> 4237.96]  send us
+[4237.96 --> 4238.40]  out
+[4238.40 --> 4239.48]  in the
+[4239.48 --> 4239.78]  glory
+[4239.78 --> 4240.08]  of the
+[4240.08 --> 4240.56]  cross
+[4240.56 --> 4241.34]  and in
+[4241.34 --> 4241.72]  the glory
+[4241.72 --> 4242.02]  of the
+[4242.02 --> 4242.38]  crown
+[4242.38 --> 4243.56]  to be
+[4243.56 --> 4244.26]  those
+[4244.26 --> 4245.16]  declaring
+[4245.16 --> 4246.50]  people
+[4246.50 --> 4247.82]  in
+[4247.82 --> 4248.26]  Christ
+[4248.26 --> 4248.88]  Jesus
+[4248.88 --> 4249.84]  we pray
+[4249.84 --> 4251.74]  amen
+[4251.74 --> 4252.66]  let's
+[4252.66 --> 4255.08]  name
+[4255.08 --> 4257.42]  to
+[4258.08 --> 4264.72]  hear
+[4264.72 --> 4290.32]  When I fear my faith will fail,
+[4290.32 --> 4294.76]  Christ will hold me fast.
+[4294.98 --> 4298.68]  When the tempter would prevail,
+[4300.08 --> 4303.40]  He will hold me fast.
+[4303.82 --> 4308.20]  I could never keep my hold
+[4308.20 --> 4312.16]  through life's fearful path,
+[4312.50 --> 4316.92]  for my love is soft and cold.
+[4316.92 --> 4321.32]  He must hold me fast.
+[4322.48 --> 4326.92]  He will hold me fast.
+[4327.26 --> 4330.78]  He will hold me fast.
+[4331.08 --> 4335.10]  For my Savior loves me so.
+[4335.86 --> 4338.92]  He will hold me fast.
+[4338.92 --> 4340.10]  He will hold me fast.
+[4349.10 --> 4352.92]  Those He saves are His delight,
+[4354.22 --> 4356.92]  Christ will hold me fast.
+[4356.92 --> 4362.40]  Precious in His holy sight,
+[4362.48 --> 4366.16]  He will hold me fast.
+[4366.70 --> 4371.00]  He'll not let my soul be lost.
+[4371.24 --> 4375.02]  His promises shall last.
+[4375.48 --> 4379.82]  Bought by Him at such a cost,
+[4380.32 --> 4383.92]  He will hold me fast.
+[4383.92 --> 4388.92]  He will hold me fast.
+[4389.48 --> 4392.92]  He will hold me fast.
+[4392.92 --> 4397.96]  For my Savior loves me so.
+[4398.66 --> 4402.86]  He will hold me fast.
+[4402.86 --> 4417.06]  For my life He bled and died,
+[4417.06 --> 4421.02]  Christ will hold me fast.
+[4421.02 --> 4424.74]  Justice has been satisfied,
+[4426.60 --> 4429.80]  He will hold me fast.
+[4429.80 --> 4435.06]  Raised with Him to endless life.
+[4435.06 --> 4439.22]  He will hold me fast.
+[4439.22 --> 4443.78]  Till our faith is turned to sight,
+[4444.12 --> 4449.74]  He will come at last.
+[4449.74 --> 4453.92]  He will hold me fast.
+[4453.92 --> 4457.90]  He will hold me fast.
+[4457.90 --> 4462.32]  For my Savior loves me so.
+[4462.80 --> 4466.58]  He will hold me fast.
+[4466.58 --> 4470.86]  He will hold me fast.
+[4471.18 --> 4474.76]  He will hold me fast.
+[4475.28 --> 4479.62]  For my Savior loves me so.
+[4480.06 --> 4484.58]  He will hold me fast.
+[4484.58 --> 4511.44]  as we go we go as those called to rejoice in testing because god himself goes with us
+[4511.44 --> 4519.56]  we go without fear for some of us right now that's more of a hope and a promise
+[4519.56 --> 4526.08]  for some of us that's a lived reality for some of us that doesn't make any sense
+[4526.08 --> 4531.54]  that doesn't make sense to you or if you have questions about life and faith in jesus i want
+[4531.54 --> 4536.48]  to encourage you to to reach out to me or to pastor kevin or to anyone else really around who's
+[4536.48 --> 4542.98]  wearing a name tag and connect with them and talk to them following our service together this morning
+[4542.98 --> 4554.28]  as you go receive the blessing of our god may god go before you to lead you may god go behind you
+[4554.28 --> 4560.98]  to guard you may god go beneath you to support you and may god go beside you to befriend you
+[4560.98 --> 4569.56]  do not be afraid let the blessing of god come upon you today do not be afraid but go
+[4569.56 --> 4577.78]  in peace to love and serve the lord everyone said amen
+[4577.78 --> 4589.74]  do
+[4589.74 --> 4611.74]  living for jesus
+[4611.74 --> 4617.74]  the life that
+[4635.58 --> 4637.74]  for me
+[4641.74 --> 4653.80]  myself to you for you in your atonement did give yourself for me I owe no other
+[4653.80 --> 4667.30]  master my heart shall be your floor my life I give henceforth to live for you alone
+[4667.30 --> 4683.86]  living for Jesus who died in my place bearing on Calvary my sin and disgrace such love
+[4683.86 --> 4696.28]  constraints me to answer his call follow his leading and give him my all
+[4696.28 --> 4710.28]  oh Jesus Lord and Savior I give myself to thee for thou in thy atonement did give myself for me
+[4710.28 --> 4726.28]  I owe no other master my heart shall be thy throne my life I give henceforth to live oh Christ for me alone
+[4726.28 --> 4748.28]  living for Jesus wherever I am doing each duty in his holy name willing to suffer affliction or loss
+[4748.28 --> 4772.28]  oh Jesus Lord and Savior I give myself to thee for thou in thy atonement did give thyself for me
+[4772.28 --> 4792.28]  I owe no other master my heart shall be thy throne my life I give henceforth to live oh Christ for me alone
+[4792.28 --> 4794.28]  oh
+[4794.28 --> 4798.28]  mi
+[4798.28 --> 4813.54]  the
+[4813.54 --> 4842.54]  PAPS BUZZER
+[4842.54 --> 4872.52]  Thank you.
+[4872.54 --> 4902.52]  Thank you.

Faith Without Deeds is Dead (Sermon)_summary.txt

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+• Faith vs Deeds
+• James 2:14-19 as reference text
+• The story of Pi from "The Life of Pi" used to illustrate faith and actions
+• Different types of faith:
+  • Faith that is alone (isolated)
+  • Faith that works (with deeds)
+• Characteristics of a faith that works:
+  • Changes the person
+  • Affects reality
+  • Includes wisdom, steadfastness, slowness to anger, quickness to listen, and actions based on what it hears
+• Faith alone is not enough to be considered true faith
+• True faith changes a person's behavior and actions
+• Good deeds follow from true faith, but they do not earn salvation
+• Deeds without faith are worthless and do not save
+• James' example of the person who walks by the brother in need illustrates faith without works
+• Faith without works is dead and useless
+• James affirms that faith alone does not save, but rather it is a gift from God.
+• Faith and deeds are intertwined
+• Separating faith and deeds results in a dead faith
+• Deeds are an expression of true faith
+• James uses the example of demons believing in one God to illustrate that mere belief is not enough
+• The Jewish concept of monotheism (one God) is referenced
+• Demons know God but do not act on their faith
+• James commends someone for believing that God is one and encourages them to demonstrate good deeds.
+• Faith alone saves, but a saving faith is never isolated from good works.
+• Good deeds follow true faith as a result and signifier of its authenticity.
+• The Holy Spirit sanctifies through the promise of making us like Christ.
+• Jesus' sacrifice on the cross is essential for salvation, and it's a gift of God's undeserved grace.
+• Salvation is not earned through human effort or good deeds but by God's sheer grace alone.
+• The Bible's catechism encapsulates James' teaching on true faith and its fruit
+• True faith is a deep-rooted assurance created in believers by the Holy Spirit through the Gospel
+• Those with true faith produce fruits of gratitude, including good deeds
+• Good deeds follow faith and are a result of being made like Christ through sanctification
+• The Holy Spirit works out salvation in believers to make them more like Christ every day
+• Good deeds are done because of God's strength, goodness, faithfulness, and Spirit working in us
+• Gratitude and obedience signify true faith
+• Members of the church should act like Christ and do good deeds with God's strength
+• Prayer for salvation, thanksgiving, and appreciation for God's Word and truth
+• Acknowledgment of sinful nature and need for God's grace and love
+• Request to be made more like Christ through truer faith and sanctification by the Spirit

Faith Without Deeds is Dead (Sermon)_transcript.txt

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+[0.00 --> 3.36]  Hey everyone, welcome.
+[4.36 --> 6.30]  I hope you're having a good Sunday so far.
+[7.12 --> 9.38]  It's been a while since the last time I did this,
+[9.60 --> 13.84]  but I remember more people being here the last time I preached.
+[15.48 --> 18.86]  Anyways, I hope everyone's having a good Sunday, like I said already.
+[19.44 --> 22.20]  I want to encourage you to bring out your Bibles in any format
+[22.20 --> 25.80]  and open the word to James 2, 14-19.
+[30.00 --> 31.46]  Read with me.
+[31.46 --> 37.28]  What good is it, my brothers, if a man claims to have faith but has no deeds?
+[38.00 --> 39.34]  Can such faith save him?
+[40.38 --> 43.80]  Suppose a brother or sister is without clothes and daily food.
+[44.60 --> 46.68]  One of you says to him, Go, I wish you well.
+[47.50 --> 51.22]  Keep warm and well-fed, but does nothing about his physical needs.
+[51.30 --> 52.02]  What good is it?
+[53.16 --> 57.22]  In the same way, faith by itself, if it's not accompanied by actions, is dead.
+[57.22 --> 60.70]  But someone will say, You have faith, I have deeds.
+[61.54 --> 65.02]  Show me your faith without deeds, and I will show you my faith by what I do.
+[65.86 --> 67.80]  You believe that there is one God good.
+[68.42 --> 70.66]  Even the demons believe that and shudder.
+[70.66 --> 81.60]  When I was in school, I read the book, The Life of Pi.
+[82.20 --> 84.84]  If you haven't read the book, you may have watched the movie,
+[84.92 --> 88.34]  When Our Church Borrowed the Cloverdale Cinema for a Mexico fundraiser in 2012.
+[89.64 --> 92.94]  It's a fictional story of a boy from India who's the son of a zookeeper.
+[92.94 --> 99.02]  On a move from India to Canada, he gets lost at sea due to a storm
+[99.02 --> 104.02]  and gets stranded on a small rescue boat with a tiger as his only companion.
+[104.96 --> 106.46]  I highly recommend this book.
+[109.20 --> 113.40]  But there's a traumatic scene in the book where Pi goes to see the tiger at the zoo alone.
+[114.52 --> 116.58]  Now to preface, when I say that this scene is traumatic,
+[117.38 --> 121.70]  I mean that this story presents a very gruesome scene of a tiger killing an animal
+[121.70 --> 125.80]  and an example of horrible parenting technique that should never be replicated.
+[128.32 --> 129.74]  But that's not why I'm telling this story.
+[129.92 --> 133.26]  I'm telling this story because it says something about faith and deeds
+[133.26 --> 135.30]  in a practical and easy way.
+[136.14 --> 138.58]  As I said before, Pi goes to the cage of the tiger
+[138.58 --> 142.10]  because he wants to see the most dangerous animal in the zoo.
+[143.12 --> 144.56]  He knows what a tiger can do.
+[145.04 --> 147.94]  Its power, its teeth, its claws.
+[149.10 --> 150.74]  So Pi goes to the cage to see it.
+[151.70 --> 155.42]  When Pi gets there, the tiger sees him and goes to meet Pi at the cage.
+[156.62 --> 159.02]  Pi was amazed at the tiger's beauty and power.
+[159.86 --> 163.34]  However, right before the tiger reached the cage wall where Pi was,
+[163.70 --> 165.54]  Pi's father pulls him from the cage
+[165.54 --> 169.18]  and saves his life as the tiger's swipe narrowly misses.
+[169.18 --> 172.14]  Now here's the traumatic part.
+[176.22 --> 179.52]  To make sure Pi never goes to the cage ever again,
+[180.60 --> 184.56]  Pi's father makes Pi watch the tiger kill and eat a goat.
+[185.82 --> 188.14]  His father's questionable technique works,
+[188.66 --> 191.10]  and Pi never goes close to the cage ever again.
+[191.10 --> 192.10]  Pi's father's father's father.
+[192.10 --> 195.42]  The reason I told you this story is, as I said before,
+[195.58 --> 199.02]  it says something about faith and deeds in a practical and easy way.
+[199.98 --> 202.98]  Now, of course, this story isn't actually talking about faith and deeds.
+[204.14 --> 206.80]  Pi's story here is talking about knowledge and action.
+[207.70 --> 211.24]  But the relationship between knowledge and action is analogous to faith and deeds.
+[211.24 --> 215.86]  That analogy is, if you believe that a tiger is dangerous,
+[216.54 --> 218.04]  and you still walk up to a cage,
+[218.56 --> 220.06]  then your belief doesn't work.
+[220.70 --> 221.86]  It doesn't change you.
+[222.60 --> 223.22]  It's useless.
+[223.72 --> 225.78]  And as James would say, it's dead.
+[228.08 --> 230.08]  But if you believe that a tiger is dangerous,
+[230.48 --> 231.76]  and don't walk up to a cage,
+[232.34 --> 233.48]  don't walk up to a cage,
+[234.06 --> 237.38]  it means that as a result of your faith, you did something.
+[238.42 --> 240.38]  It means your faith works, it's effective,
+[240.38 --> 242.08]  and your faith is alive.
+[243.40 --> 246.02]  In the passage today, James has been getting at this point
+[246.02 --> 248.10]  that the life of Pi also expresses.
+[249.50 --> 251.68]  It's this idea of two types of faith.
+[253.20 --> 254.48]  A faith that is alone,
+[255.10 --> 256.24]  and a faith that works.
+[258.00 --> 260.36]  Faith that is alone is a faith that's isolated.
+[260.94 --> 262.60]  Faith that only lives in the mind.
+[263.30 --> 265.94]  A faith that doesn't have any effect on a person's actions,
+[266.60 --> 267.86]  attitudes, or habits.
+[267.86 --> 270.86]  Faith that doesn't affect the person's reality.
+[272.04 --> 274.64]  The other type of faith is a faith that works.
+[275.34 --> 276.42]  A faith with deeds.
+[277.18 --> 278.52]  A faith that does something.
+[279.08 --> 280.66]  A faith that changes a person.
+[281.26 --> 283.72]  Or as Chris and Kevin have been preaching every Sunday.
+[284.50 --> 286.10]  A faith that seeks wisdom.
+[286.78 --> 289.04]  A faith that is steadfast in the trial.
+[289.90 --> 292.58]  A faith that is slow to anger and quick to listen.
+[292.58 --> 294.88]  A faith that does what it hears.
+[295.88 --> 298.04]  A faith that visits the orphan and the widow.
+[298.34 --> 301.40]  And a faith that is not partial to the rich over the poor.
+[301.40 --> 313.20]  If you summarize everything James says into one phrase,
+[313.26 --> 313.86]  it would be this.
+[314.52 --> 316.10]  We are saved through faith alone,
+[316.80 --> 319.30]  but a faith that saves is never alone.
+[320.58 --> 323.46]  Be a hearer and a doer, not just a hearer.
+[324.48 --> 326.54]  True faith changes a person.
+[327.08 --> 328.38]  It changes how we behave.
+[328.38 --> 331.96]  It affects how we speak to each other and how we look at life.
+[332.14 --> 334.30]  And in turn, good deeds follow.
+[335.32 --> 337.42]  It's important to note that deeds do not save.
+[338.16 --> 339.32]  James never claims that.
+[339.98 --> 342.90]  And I'm going to hit that note multiple times throughout this sermon
+[342.90 --> 345.08]  to make sure it's clear that I don't claim it.
+[346.16 --> 350.58]  James completely affirms the passage found in Ephesians 2, 8-9.
+[350.58 --> 355.50]  For it is by grace you have been saved through faith.
+[355.90 --> 357.14]  And this is not from yourselves.
+[357.72 --> 361.62]  It is a gift of God, not by works, so that no one can boast.
+[362.94 --> 365.80]  Deeds following faith is where the passage starts.
+[366.14 --> 368.12]  And it's threaded through the whole passage today.
+[369.08 --> 370.40]  We'll get back to Ephesians later.
+[372.16 --> 373.70]  James starts by saying,
+[373.70 --> 395.04]  We're given an example of the first kind of faith.
+[395.64 --> 398.48]  Faith that is alone and doesn't do anything.
+[399.04 --> 401.14]  And this is expressed in James' opening question.
+[401.14 --> 405.52]  What good is it, my brothers, if a man claims to have faith but has no deeds?
+[406.40 --> 408.56]  This kind of faith is only in the mind.
+[409.32 --> 410.84]  This faith has no deeds,
+[410.94 --> 412.90]  which means that if someone were to have this kind of faith,
+[413.24 --> 415.76]  it would not affect their reality or their world.
+[417.34 --> 420.36]  In no way does this kind of faith affect the way a person behaves
+[420.36 --> 422.30]  or treats others in any positive way.
+[422.98 --> 426.48]  Or in Pi's case, this kind of faith won't stop you from going to the tiger's cage.
+[428.10 --> 430.60]  James goes on to give an example of this kind of faith.
+[430.60 --> 433.58]  And he describes a scene that is not that dissimilar from the beginning
+[433.58 --> 436.26]  of the Good Samaritan found in Luke chapter 10.
+[437.92 --> 441.62]  Someone walks past a brother or sister who is clearly in need.
+[442.26 --> 444.96]  They're described as someone without clothes and without food.
+[445.74 --> 448.38]  This person has a clear description of poverty.
+[449.34 --> 452.16]  And the person passing by doesn't give them anything
+[452.16 --> 454.16]  or help them in any way.
+[454.66 --> 455.44]  They just say,
+[455.44 --> 457.00]  Go, I wish you well.
+[457.58 --> 459.40]  Keep warm and be well fed.
+[463.22 --> 465.00]  In this hypothetical situation,
+[465.58 --> 467.80]  the person speaking knows what they should do
+[467.80 --> 469.40]  by their own admission.
+[470.10 --> 472.16]  They have faith, so to speak.
+[472.28 --> 474.16]  They know they need to help their brother in need,
+[474.36 --> 475.90]  but they don't act on it.
+[475.90 --> 478.58]  I think James brings up this example
+[478.58 --> 480.22]  because we all do this.
+[481.84 --> 484.06]  Countless times, driving or walking,
+[484.96 --> 487.40]  I've passed someone who's in a similar situation
+[487.40 --> 488.50]  to this person,
+[488.90 --> 489.74]  and I say to myself,
+[489.88 --> 491.64]  Man, I really hope they find some food
+[491.64 --> 492.86]  and get a place to sleep tonight.
+[493.18 --> 494.12]  It's going to get cold.
+[495.42 --> 496.52]  And admittedly, most of the time,
+[496.56 --> 497.74]  I don't do anything about it.
+[498.78 --> 499.76]  My faith was alone.
+[500.10 --> 501.00]  I knew they needed something,
+[501.08 --> 502.42]  and I didn't do anything.
+[502.42 --> 505.64]  Now, I'm not highlighting this point
+[505.64 --> 508.22]  so you go and help every person in need,
+[508.72 --> 510.24]  but if we never help,
+[511.30 --> 513.12]  then maybe we need to reflect.
+[514.64 --> 516.10]  James is asking us to decide
+[516.10 --> 518.36]  that if we feel so convicted by God
+[518.36 --> 519.52]  to help,
+[519.66 --> 520.82]  then maybe we should.
+[522.90 --> 524.36]  James ends this story
+[524.36 --> 526.00]  with another question and an answer.
+[526.50 --> 527.34]  What good is it?
+[528.02 --> 528.86]  In the same way,
+[529.00 --> 530.54]  faith by itself,
+[530.54 --> 532.64]  if it's not accompanied by actions,
+[532.78 --> 533.28]  is dead.
+[534.30 --> 535.62]  James has asked this question,
+[535.74 --> 536.90]  what good is it, twice now?
+[537.34 --> 538.28]  But James doesn't say
+[538.28 --> 539.24]  that the faith without deeds
+[539.24 --> 540.46]  is not good.
+[541.50 --> 543.04]  He says it's dead.
+[544.72 --> 546.24]  In a very explicit way,
+[546.34 --> 548.36]  James responds by saying
+[548.36 --> 549.28]  that faith without works
+[549.28 --> 550.96]  is like a body without a soul.
+[552.18 --> 553.36]  It doesn't do anything.
+[554.36 --> 555.88]  It's simply just there.
+[555.88 --> 558.12]  And again,
+[558.18 --> 559.28]  I want to affirm
+[559.28 --> 560.44]  that James is not saying
+[560.44 --> 561.40]  that deeds save you.
+[562.38 --> 563.98]  James affirms that faith saves
+[563.98 --> 564.68]  by his question,
+[564.84 --> 566.28]  can that faith save him?
+[567.16 --> 568.20]  He wants us to understand
+[568.20 --> 569.12]  that faith saves,
+[569.26 --> 571.10]  but deeds should follow
+[571.10 --> 571.96]  from that faith.
+[572.46 --> 574.00]  Good deeds act as a signal
+[574.00 --> 575.08]  to true faith.
+[576.68 --> 577.90]  Saved through faith,
+[578.46 --> 578.84]  alone.
+[579.30 --> 580.30]  But a faith that saves
+[580.30 --> 581.10]  is never alone.
+[581.10 --> 584.62]  In verse 18 to 19,
+[585.28 --> 586.12]  James proposes
+[586.12 --> 587.44]  a hypothetical response
+[587.44 --> 588.58]  from someone who disagrees
+[588.58 --> 590.10]  with his teaching so far.
+[591.94 --> 593.04]  But someone will say,
+[593.22 --> 593.84]  you have faith,
+[594.10 --> 594.90]  I have deeds.
+[595.96 --> 596.90]  Show me your faith
+[596.90 --> 597.40]  without deeds,
+[597.46 --> 598.02]  and I will show you
+[598.02 --> 599.18]  my faith by what I do.
+[599.74 --> 600.52]  You believe there is
+[600.52 --> 601.34]  one God, good.
+[601.94 --> 603.26]  Even the demons believe that
+[603.26 --> 604.14]  and shudder.
+[608.18 --> 609.68]  This opponent is supposing
+[609.68 --> 611.08]  that the two can be separated.
+[611.46 --> 612.62]  That you can have faith
+[612.62 --> 613.30]  without deeds.
+[614.44 --> 615.40]  But as we've seen,
+[615.50 --> 616.38]  James makes this case
+[616.38 --> 617.12]  over and over again
+[617.12 --> 617.82]  that if you separate
+[617.82 --> 618.52]  faith and deeds,
+[618.60 --> 619.28]  then you have a faith
+[619.28 --> 619.90]  that is alone.
+[620.96 --> 621.86]  A faith that doesn't
+[621.86 --> 622.36]  do anything,
+[622.44 --> 623.26]  and a faith like that
+[623.26 --> 623.96]  is dead.
+[625.56 --> 627.10]  So he hits the same point again
+[627.10 --> 628.50]  by expressing what
+[628.50 --> 629.88]  the second kind of faith is.
+[630.40 --> 631.74]  I will show you my faith
+[631.74 --> 632.90]  by what I do.
+[633.82 --> 635.56]  Deeds following faith.
+[637.06 --> 637.94]  Deeds are an expression
+[637.94 --> 638.78]  of a true faith
+[638.78 --> 639.52]  in the same way
+[639.52 --> 640.66]  that an apple on a tree
+[640.66 --> 641.32]  tells you,
+[641.92 --> 643.04]  you have an apple tree.
+[645.40 --> 646.08]  James goes on
+[646.08 --> 646.80]  to hit the point home
+[646.80 --> 647.92]  by invoking a fundamental
+[647.92 --> 649.02]  belief to both Jews
+[649.02 --> 649.68]  and the church.
+[650.76 --> 651.38]  James writes,
+[651.48 --> 652.22]  you believe there is
+[652.22 --> 653.48]  one God, good.
+[654.32 --> 654.96]  Even the demons
+[654.96 --> 655.98]  believe that and shudder.
+[657.06 --> 657.76]  The phrase,
+[657.94 --> 658.84]  believe God is one,
+[659.38 --> 660.04]  that James here
+[660.04 --> 660.74]  is referring to
+[660.74 --> 661.98]  is one of the core features
+[661.98 --> 663.18]  of the Jewish faith.
+[663.30 --> 664.14]  This idea of God
+[664.14 --> 664.68]  being one
+[664.68 --> 666.74]  comes from Deuteronomy 6.4.
+[668.04 --> 669.02]  Hear, O Israel,
+[669.52 --> 670.54]  the Lord our God,
+[670.94 --> 672.56]  the Lord is one.
+[675.28 --> 676.02]  God commanded
+[676.02 --> 676.70]  the Israelite people
+[676.70 --> 677.92]  to keep these words
+[677.92 --> 678.38]  to heart,
+[679.06 --> 679.74]  to say them
+[679.74 --> 680.94]  every single day,
+[681.28 --> 681.84]  to write them
+[681.84 --> 682.46]  on their walls,
+[682.54 --> 683.10]  on their houses,
+[683.10 --> 683.98]  and to teach them
+[683.98 --> 685.30]  every chance they get.
+[686.58 --> 687.28]  James brings up
+[687.28 --> 687.90]  this specifically
+[687.90 --> 688.64]  because of something
+[688.64 --> 690.26]  so clearly commanded
+[690.26 --> 691.24]  by God to be memorized
+[691.24 --> 692.52]  and recited
+[692.52 --> 693.98]  every chance they get
+[693.98 --> 695.14]  meant it was important
+[695.14 --> 695.76]  to believe.
+[696.30 --> 696.64]  In fact,
+[696.68 --> 697.32]  it was central
+[697.32 --> 698.00]  to their faith.
+[699.64 --> 700.62]  He states that
+[700.62 --> 702.06]  demons believe this as well.
+[703.08 --> 703.90]  He means that as demons
+[703.90 --> 705.04]  they know God.
+[705.70 --> 706.62]  They believe in him.
+[707.08 --> 708.00]  They don't have debates
+[708.00 --> 709.48]  over whether he might exist
+[709.48 --> 709.88]  or not.
+[710.44 --> 711.16]  They watch him
+[711.16 --> 712.42]  throughout all history.
+[712.96 --> 713.56]  They watched him
+[713.56 --> 714.40]  work for the salvation
+[714.40 --> 715.12]  of humankind.
+[715.54 --> 716.24]  But as we know,
+[716.34 --> 717.86]  they don't do anything good
+[717.86 --> 719.16]  as a result of their faith.
+[719.68 --> 720.34]  After all,
+[720.34 --> 721.82]  they're demons.
+[728.26 --> 730.18]  This man who only has faith
+[730.18 --> 731.50]  in James' hypothetical
+[731.50 --> 732.72]  is described as believing
+[732.72 --> 733.74]  that God is one.
+[734.78 --> 736.02]  James commends this person
+[736.02 --> 736.74]  for believing that
+[736.74 --> 738.08]  because believing that statement
+[738.08 --> 739.64]  is in fact great.
+[740.30 --> 741.80]  It's good that he believes that.
+[742.26 --> 743.06]  James isn't saying
+[743.06 --> 743.56]  that the person
+[743.56 --> 744.28]  is like a demon
+[744.28 --> 745.86]  or is a demon.
+[746.28 --> 746.96]  Not at all.
+[747.42 --> 748.30]  He's encouraging the man
+[748.30 --> 749.44]  that if he believes,
+[749.44 --> 751.02]  then good deeds
+[751.02 --> 751.94]  should follow
+[751.94 --> 753.54]  unlike a demon
+[753.54 --> 754.54]  who does evil.
+[756.20 --> 756.94]  James is trying
+[756.94 --> 757.50]  to tell the reader
+[757.50 --> 758.20]  that you cannot
+[758.20 --> 759.16]  separate the two.
+[759.78 --> 760.08]  And again,
+[760.12 --> 761.04]  I'm repeating myself here
+[761.04 --> 761.56]  so that you know
+[761.56 --> 762.60]  I'm not saying otherwise.
+[763.28 --> 764.46]  James is not teaching
+[764.46 --> 765.40]  that by doing good
+[765.40 --> 766.60]  you can earn salvation.
+[767.46 --> 768.28]  He's saying
+[768.28 --> 769.88]  we are saved
+[769.88 --> 770.78]  through faith alone.
+[770.78 --> 772.62]  but a faith that saves
+[772.62 --> 774.16]  is never alone.
+[775.78 --> 776.84]  We've talked about
+[776.84 --> 777.44]  the idea
+[777.44 --> 778.46]  of deeds following
+[778.46 --> 779.92]  as a result of true faith
+[779.92 --> 782.04]  and also as a signifier
+[782.04 --> 783.04]  showing that that faith
+[783.04 --> 783.60]  is true.
+[784.60 --> 785.82]  This is for us
+[785.82 --> 787.12]  so that we can see
+[787.12 --> 788.14]  that we are being sanctified
+[788.14 --> 789.04]  by the Holy Spirit.
+[789.70 --> 790.82]  We can see that God's promise
+[790.82 --> 792.06]  of making us more like Christ
+[792.06 --> 793.42]  is happening in real time.
+[794.32 --> 794.98]  We can look back
+[794.98 --> 796.00]  at who we used to be
+[796.00 --> 797.42]  and see the power of God
+[797.42 --> 798.46]  working in our life
+[798.46 --> 799.38]  and in turn
+[799.38 --> 800.62]  we draw into him
+[800.62 --> 801.66]  more and more.
+[803.62 --> 805.06]  We know that we as Christians
+[805.06 --> 806.32]  when we're talking about faith
+[806.32 --> 807.50]  we talk about faith
+[807.50 --> 808.44]  in Christ.
+[809.42 --> 810.54]  Jesus says these words
+[810.54 --> 811.80]  that we're all familiar with.
+[811.80 --> 814.32]  For God so loved the world
+[814.32 --> 815.48]  that he gave his one
+[815.48 --> 816.18]  and only Son
+[816.18 --> 817.74]  that whoever believes in him
+[817.74 --> 818.60]  shall not perish
+[818.60 --> 819.68]  but have eternal life.
+[820.98 --> 823.24]  We owe everything to Jesus.
+[824.06 --> 825.44]  If Christ didn't live
+[825.44 --> 826.26]  the perfect life
+[826.26 --> 827.74]  if he didn't preach
+[827.74 --> 828.36]  the gospel
+[828.36 --> 829.64]  if he didn't die
+[829.64 --> 830.28]  on the cross
+[830.28 --> 831.36]  instead of us
+[831.36 --> 833.00]  if he wasn't raised
+[833.00 --> 833.78]  from the dead
+[833.78 --> 835.42]  we would be dead
+[835.42 --> 836.14]  in our sin.
+[837.56 --> 839.14]  It is in Christ alone
+[839.14 --> 840.10]  that we are saved.
+[840.10 --> 842.42]  We also affirm
+[842.42 --> 843.72]  that this is a gift
+[843.72 --> 845.58]  of God's undeserved grace.
+[846.38 --> 847.56]  Ephesians 2.8-9
+[847.56 --> 848.70]  which was mentioned before
+[848.70 --> 849.84]  says
+[849.84 --> 851.34]  for it is by grace
+[851.34 --> 852.38]  you have been saved
+[852.38 --> 853.24]  through faith
+[853.24 --> 854.64]  and this is not
+[854.64 --> 855.24]  from yourselves
+[855.24 --> 856.30]  it is a gift of God
+[856.30 --> 857.12]  not by works
+[857.12 --> 858.98]  so that no one can boast.
+[864.50 --> 865.54]  Nothing we could do
+[865.54 --> 866.40]  could ever earn
+[866.40 --> 867.40]  ourselves salvation.
+[867.82 --> 868.52]  It is by God's
+[868.52 --> 869.98]  sheer grace alone
+[869.98 --> 871.00]  that we are saved.
+[871.90 --> 873.02]  No effort of our own
+[873.02 --> 873.76]  could have saved us
+[873.76 --> 874.58]  and no good deed
+[874.58 --> 875.36]  could have earned it.
+[876.00 --> 878.42]  It is by God's grace alone.
+[880.16 --> 881.12]  The Heidelberg Catechism
+[881.12 --> 882.24]  which we are familiar with
+[882.24 --> 882.82]  if you grew up
+[882.82 --> 883.48]  in this church
+[883.48 --> 885.18]  or other CRC churches
+[885.18 --> 886.30]  we learned it
+[886.30 --> 886.86]  in our youth
+[886.86 --> 888.86]  some have even memorized it
+[888.86 --> 889.54]  to an extent.
+[890.22 --> 891.46]  It serves as a concise
+[891.46 --> 892.42]  and thorough teaching
+[892.42 --> 893.04]  of the truths
+[893.04 --> 893.86]  that we believe
+[893.86 --> 895.16]  the Bible teaches.
+[895.98 --> 896.82]  This catechism
+[896.82 --> 898.20]  encapsulates James' teaching
+[898.20 --> 899.32]  in a few of the Lord's Days.
+[900.36 --> 901.92]  The Lord's Day 7 says
+[901.92 --> 903.70]  true faith
+[903.70 --> 905.36]  is not only a knowledge
+[905.36 --> 905.96]  and a conviction
+[905.96 --> 907.32]  that everything God reveals
+[907.32 --> 908.38]  in His Word is true
+[908.38 --> 910.48]  is a deep rooted assurance
+[910.48 --> 911.26]  created in me
+[911.26 --> 912.14]  by the Holy Spirit
+[912.14 --> 912.82]  through the Gospel
+[912.82 --> 914.72]  that out of sheer grace
+[914.72 --> 915.60]  earned for us
+[915.60 --> 916.62]  by Christ
+[916.62 --> 918.12]  not only others
+[918.12 --> 918.84]  but I too
+[918.84 --> 921.26]  have had my sins forgiven
+[921.26 --> 922.78]  have been made forever
+[922.78 --> 923.58]  right with God
+[923.58 --> 925.72]  and have been granted salvation.
+[927.60 --> 929.12]  The Lord's Day 24
+[929.12 --> 930.42]  goes on to say
+[930.42 --> 931.70]  it is impossible
+[931.70 --> 932.78]  for those grafted
+[932.78 --> 933.92]  into Christ
+[933.92 --> 935.06]  by true faith
+[935.06 --> 936.62]  not to produce
+[936.62 --> 937.74]  fruits of gratitude.
+[940.24 --> 942.24]  James has been teaching us
+[942.24 --> 943.14]  that good deeds
+[943.14 --> 944.26]  follow faith.
+[944.62 --> 945.16]  These deeds
+[945.16 --> 946.16]  don't save us
+[946.16 --> 947.20]  they couldn't.
+[947.96 --> 948.68]  When James says
+[948.68 --> 949.20]  that deeds
+[949.20 --> 950.92]  accompany good faith
+[950.92 --> 951.54]  it's because
+[951.54 --> 952.48]  we are being made
+[952.48 --> 953.58]  like Christ
+[953.58 --> 955.26]  we're being sanctified.
+[955.84 --> 956.36]  The Holy Spirit
+[956.36 --> 957.34]  is working out salvation
+[957.34 --> 957.78]  in us
+[957.78 --> 959.60]  to be more like Christ
+[959.60 --> 961.00]  every single day
+[961.00 --> 961.98]  which means that
+[961.98 --> 963.08]  because we are being saved
+[963.08 --> 964.04]  and being made
+[964.04 --> 964.92]  more like Christ
+[964.92 --> 966.60]  we then will act
+[966.60 --> 967.46]  more like Christ
+[967.46 --> 968.54]  for the more
+[968.54 --> 969.38]  any good we do
+[969.38 --> 969.94]  is because of
+[969.94 --> 970.86]  His strength.
+[971.62 --> 972.56]  We can never do good
+[972.56 --> 973.26]  in God's eyes
+[973.26 --> 973.92]  if it wasn't for
+[973.92 --> 974.48]  His strength
+[974.48 --> 975.80]  His goodness
+[975.80 --> 977.34]  His faithfulness
+[977.34 --> 978.52]  and His Spirit
+[978.52 --> 979.18]  working in us
+[979.18 --> 980.22]  to sanctify us.
+[980.22 --> 981.64]  verse 10
+[981.64 --> 982.20]  of the Ephesians
+[982.20 --> 982.60]  passage
+[982.60 --> 983.52]  affirms this
+[983.52 --> 985.30]  for we are
+[985.30 --> 986.08]  God's workmanship
+[986.08 --> 987.96]  created in Christ
+[987.96 --> 988.32]  Jesus
+[988.32 --> 990.26]  to do good works
+[990.26 --> 991.36]  which God
+[991.36 --> 992.12]  prepared in advance
+[992.12 --> 992.82]  for us to do.
+[993.86 --> 994.74]  Christ obtained
+[994.74 --> 995.76]  salvation for us
+[995.76 --> 996.50]  through His blood
+[996.50 --> 997.56]  the ultimate
+[997.56 --> 998.46]  good deed
+[998.46 --> 999.32]  the deed above
+[999.32 --> 1000.68]  all other deeds
+[1000.68 --> 1002.10]  therefore since
+[1002.10 --> 1002.66]  our deeds
+[1002.66 --> 1003.48]  don't earn us
+[1003.48 --> 1004.00]  salvation
+[1004.00 --> 1005.14]  they are fruits
+[1005.14 --> 1005.88]  of gratitude
+[1005.88 --> 1006.62]  and obedience
+[1006.62 --> 1007.94]  we do these
+[1007.94 --> 1008.40]  good things
+[1008.40 --> 1009.40]  because we have
+[1009.40 --> 1010.30]  been saved
+[1010.30 --> 1011.74]  because He saved us
+[1011.74 --> 1012.72]  we obey His commands
+[1012.72 --> 1013.50]  out of love
+[1013.50 --> 1015.04]  all because God
+[1015.04 --> 1016.04]  had grace on us
+[1016.04 --> 1017.44]  and in conclusion
+[1017.44 --> 1018.28]  we are saved
+[1018.28 --> 1019.70]  by grace alone
+[1019.70 --> 1021.88]  by Christ
+[1021.88 --> 1022.78]  alone
+[1022.78 --> 1024.12]  by faith
+[1024.12 --> 1025.18]  alone
+[1025.18 --> 1026.32]  but a faith
+[1026.32 --> 1026.98]  that saves
+[1026.98 --> 1028.20]  is never alone
+[1028.20 --> 1028.98]  true faith
+[1028.98 --> 1030.12]  is always accompanied
+[1030.12 --> 1031.06]  by good deeds
+[1031.06 --> 1032.62]  not to earn salvation
+[1032.62 --> 1033.84]  but out of gratitude
+[1033.84 --> 1034.90]  and obedience
+[1034.90 --> 1036.16]  for being saved
+[1036.16 --> 1038.06]  these deeds
+[1038.06 --> 1038.74]  of gratitude
+[1038.74 --> 1039.28]  and obedience
+[1039.28 --> 1040.10]  signify that we
+[1040.10 --> 1041.12]  have true faith
+[1041.12 --> 1042.38]  so as members
+[1042.38 --> 1043.06]  of the church
+[1043.06 --> 1044.26]  as the body
+[1044.26 --> 1044.80]  of Christ
+[1044.80 --> 1045.98]  go and be
+[1045.98 --> 1046.92]  like Christ
+[1046.92 --> 1048.28]  go do
+[1048.28 --> 1049.14]  the work
+[1049.14 --> 1050.34]  the good deeds
+[1050.34 --> 1051.08]  God made you
+[1051.08 --> 1051.54]  to do
+[1051.54 --> 1052.90]  with His strength
+[1052.90 --> 1053.90]  because you
+[1053.90 --> 1054.38]  and I
+[1054.38 --> 1055.18]  have been saved
+[1055.18 --> 1058.84]  let's pray
+[1058.84 --> 1063.08]  our Father
+[1063.08 --> 1064.24]  thank You
+[1064.24 --> 1064.82]  for this day
+[1064.82 --> 1066.46]  thank You Lord
+[1066.46 --> 1066.90]  that we get to
+[1066.90 --> 1067.70]  hear Your Word
+[1067.70 --> 1070.18]  get to say Your Word
+[1070.18 --> 1071.98]  thank You Lord
+[1071.98 --> 1072.46]  that we get to
+[1072.46 --> 1073.26]  know Your truth
+[1073.26 --> 1074.92]  and get to be
+[1074.92 --> 1076.16]  made more like Christ
+[1076.16 --> 1077.02]  and we don't have
+[1077.02 --> 1078.00]  to stay the way
+[1078.00 --> 1079.74]  we normally are
+[1079.74 --> 1081.24]  our sinful selves
+[1081.24 --> 1082.14]  thank You
+[1082.14 --> 1082.92]  for Your grace
+[1082.92 --> 1084.22]  and Your goodness
+[1084.22 --> 1085.40]  and Your love
+[1085.40 --> 1087.18]  that we do not
+[1087.18 --> 1087.60]  deserve
+[1087.60 --> 1088.68]  and that was
+[1088.68 --> 1089.54]  earned for us
+[1089.54 --> 1090.38]  on our behalf
+[1090.38 --> 1092.68]  because we
+[1092.68 --> 1093.42]  couldn't do it
+[1093.42 --> 1094.92]  we never could
+[1094.92 --> 1097.00]  thank You Lord
+[1097.00 --> 1097.74]  for Your love
+[1097.74 --> 1099.10]  and Your patience
+[1099.10 --> 1100.00]  with our faultiness
+[1100.00 --> 1101.54]  and when we do
+[1101.54 --> 1102.44]  not do what we
+[1102.44 --> 1102.80]  hear
+[1102.80 --> 1104.32]  when we do not
+[1104.32 --> 1104.78]  act
+[1104.78 --> 1105.58]  when we should
+[1105.58 --> 1106.48]  when we have
+[1106.48 --> 1106.86]  faith
+[1106.86 --> 1108.48]  I pray that You
+[1108.48 --> 1109.48]  would instill in us
+[1109.48 --> 1110.34]  truer and truer
+[1110.34 --> 1110.84]  faith
+[1110.84 --> 1111.96]  and that we would
+[1111.96 --> 1112.60]  continue to be
+[1112.60 --> 1113.58]  sanctified by Your
+[1113.58 --> 1114.06]  Spirit
+[1114.06 --> 1115.72]  and become more
+[1115.72 --> 1116.34]  like Christ
+[1116.34 --> 1117.60]  to do Your work
+[1117.60 --> 1119.66]  and I pray Lord
+[1119.66 --> 1120.62]  that we would
+[1120.62 --> 1121.50]  continue to glorify
+[1121.50 --> 1122.58]  You in all that we
+[1122.58 --> 1122.86]  do
+[1122.86 --> 1124.50]  Amen

Good Friday Worship Service - April 2 2021_summary.txt

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+• Christ is the hope and light of the speaker
+• Christ is the strength and song of the speaker in times of struggle
+• Christ's power gives the speaker comfort and peace
+• Christ's love frees the speaker from guilt and fear
+• The speaker finds their strength, hope, and help in Christ alone
+• The people of the Lord are called to lift their voices and praise Christ as King
+• Amazing grace is celebrated for its unknown and mysterious nature
+• The speaker acknowledges the debt of love they owe to Christ and gives themselves over to Him
+• The Passion of Jesus Christ and the worship of him
+• A hymn to the crucified Jesus, describing his wounds and suffering
+• A prayer for mercy and forgiveness, recognizing sin and deserving punishment
+• Recognition of Jesus as Lamb of God, bearer of sins, and Redeemer of the world
+• Prayer for peace and mercy on a family who has been betrayed
+• A song or hymn, "Were you there when they crucified my Lord?", expressing shock and trembling at the thought of Christ's sacrifice
+• The transcript discusses the poem "Fate And Desperate Men" and its relation to death and pride.
+• The speaker reads from Luke 22:54-62, which tells the story of Peter's denials of Jesus.
+• The timeline of events leading up to Peter's denials is discussed, including the Passover meal and Jesus' prophecy about Peter's denial.
+• The story of Peter's three denials is retold in detail, highlighting his repeated denials of knowing Jesus.
+• The speaker reflects on the significance of Peter's actions, noting that they occurred over a period of three to six hours during the night.
+• The discussion concludes with the speaker contemplating the implications of Peter's behavior and how it relates to their own lives.
+• Denying Jesus through disobedience and willful sin
+• The consequences of refusing to forgive others as Jesus forgave us
+• The connection between denying Jesus and engaging in behaviors such as pornography, lying, or seeking social acceptance over God's design for our life
+• The theological concept that the cross is a curse, but what comes after it is joy
+• The idea that rejecting Jesus can be understood through Peter's rejection of him, which is seen as a form of denial and judgment.
+• The Christ hymn in Philippians 2 states that Jesus had to learn obedience through death on the cross
+• This obedience is for the glory of God and leads to his exaltation as ruler over all
+• Every tongue will confess that Jesus is Lord, and the joy that enabled him to endure the cross is the glory of God
+• The same principle applies to believers: their present sufferings are not worth comparing to the future glory revealed in them
+• God's glory and believer's joy are intertwined; suffering now is used to magnify God's glory later
+• This can be illustrated using the transitive property (A = B, B = C, therefore A = C) where obedience leads to a deeper relationship with God and ultimate glorification.
+• The relationship between joy and glorifying God
+• How obedience to God brings joy and glorification of God
+• The connection between suffering, trials, and obeying God's will
+• The consequences of choosing disobedience, including spurning the glory of God
+• References to biblical passages (John 1:14, Colossians 1) that emphasize the glory of Jesus Christ
+• The glory of God is made visible through Jesus
+• Jesus is the perfect picture of obedience and humanity
+• Denying or choosing something other than Jesus denies Him as well
+• Making career or material gain one's goal in life denies Jesus' teachings
+• Failing to love or honor family members, such as a spouse or parents, denies Jesus
+• Holding onto negative emotions like bitterness, anger, or malice denies Jesus and His will
+• Disobedience is not just an alternative way of living but a rejection of God's plan for joy and glory
+• Discussion of Romans 3:24-26 and the concept of God's righteousness
+• Reflection on Jesus' sacrifice for human disobedience
+• Peter's denial of Jesus and its significance in Christian theology
+• Emphasis on humanity's helplessness and need for salvation through faith
+• Reference to Matthew 26:75, 27:55, and Mark 14:66-72 (Peter's denials)
+• Moment of eye contact between Jesus and Peter
+• Description of a hypothetical movie scene with music stopping at the moment of their eyes locking
+• Analysis of the silence and tension in that moment
+• Comparison to a camera panning from Jesus' face to Peter's reaction
+• Imagery of Jesus turning his head and looking straight at Peter, and then at the speaker
+• Jesus gives Peter a new name, Cephas, which means "rock" in Aramaic
+• Jesus explains to Peter that he will be called Peter, the first time this has happened
+• Jesus looks at Peter and knows him, giving him a new purpose and meaning
+• Jesus tells Mark 10 about looking at them and saying with man it is impossible but with God all things are possible
+• A man runs up to Jesus asking what must he do to be saved and inherit eternal life
+• Jesus looks at the man and loves him
+• Discussion of Jesus' face and emotions when looking at Peter
+• Description of love as a soul-piercing, heart-quenching emotion
+• Author's experience with raising children and applying "total depravity" doctrine in real-life situations
+• Story about toddlers disobeying and requiring discipline
+• Memories of watching TV in a living room
+• Going up stairs to see family members
+• Time Out rules and consequences for children
+• Parent-child interactions and forgiveness
+• Apologies and changing behavior for kids
+• Saying "I love you" and forgiving mistakes
+• Parenting style and setting rules for children
+• Explaining the purpose of rules to a child (in this case, Nora)
+• Obedience as a means of promoting happiness, safety, and freedom in life
+• The relationship between obedience and personal joy and fulfillment
+• Reframing obedience in a more positive light
+• Connecting obedience to joy and happiness
+• Setting the context for how children experience God and his call to holiness
+• The importance of verbal and non-verbal communication when teaching children about God
+• Showing love, joy, and hope through one's actions and emotions
+• The speaker's love for someone is being rejected due to their lifestyle
+• The Lord and Peter are used as examples of Jesus' unconditional love
+• No matter how many times one denies or rejects Jesus, they will not be rejected by Him if they truly believe in Him
+• This is an example of the gospel that Jesus was rejected so others would not have to be
+• The speaker describes God's love and loyalty to the listener
+• God gives the listener a new name as a child of God, promising never to leave or forsake them
+• Obedience is discussed, but it's clarified that God remains faithful even if the listener is faithless
+• The speaker recalls an earlier conversation about the meaning of suffering and trials for one's faith
+• It's explained that obedience brings trials, but ultimately it's not about the listener's obedience, but rather about Jesus' obedience for them
+• The relationship between Jesus and obedience
+• Haplessness and helplessness, yet hope because of what Jesus accomplished
+• Living for Jesus through obedience and gaining joy through Him
+• Enduring trials and struggles with the understanding that Jesus knows rejection, pain, trial, and temptation
+• Victory through Jesus' win over sin and giving us victory
+• The speaker discusses the purpose of Peter's story in relation to their own story
+• Reference is made to Jesus' prediction of Peter's denial (Matthew 26:32)
+• Jesus' intercession on behalf of both Peter and the speaker is mentioned
+• The speaker prays for the faith of the listener not to fail, but acknowledges that failure may occur
+• Denial and restoration
+• Using love, forgiveness, and healing to help others
+• Changing lives through Jesus' love
+• Personal testimony of being lost and found
+• Stories of being moved from darkness into light
+• Inspiring others through personal experiences with marriage and addictions
+• The story of faith matters because it is a way to understand and share the gospel message.
+• Faith can be "enfleshed" in one's life, making their story a reflection of God's work in them.
+• Sharing personal stories of faith with others can help them see God at work in their lives.
+• Small groups or communities are encouraged to share their stories and experiences with each other.
+• The goal is to tell the story of faith and journey with Jesus.
+• The joy of being God's glory and seeing Jesus endure the cross
+• The power of the cross, where Christ became sin for us and took our blame
+• Forgiveness at the cross, standing forgiven as a result of Christ's sacrifice
+• The pain and weight of sin, including every bitter thought and evil deed
+• The victory cry, with Christ raising from the dead and finishing His work
+• Freedom from sin and death through Christ's suffering and wounds
+• The power of the cross, where Christ's love and cost saved us
+• Jesus' time on earth was accomplished
+• The speaker has found life through Jesus' time
+• The speaker knows that Jesus' death is finished and will boast in it
+• Jesus' death and resurrection are the source of his pride
+• The speaker cannot understand why they should gain from God's reward, but trusts in Jesus' wounds to pay for their sin
+• A grandson is mentioned as being affected by Jesus' sacrifice
+• The crucifixion of Jesus is described, including darkness, the sun stopping shining, and the temple curtain tearing.

Good Friday Worship Service - April 2 2021_transcript.txt

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+[0.00 --> 26.10]  In Christ alone, my hope is found
+[26.10 --> 31.22]  And He is my light, my strength, my song
+[31.22 --> 36.72]  This cornerstone, this solid ground
+[36.72 --> 41.84]  Firm through the fiercest drought and storm
+[41.84 --> 47.46]  What heights of love, what depths of peace
+[47.46 --> 52.68]  When fears are still, when strivings cease
+[52.68 --> 57.84]  My comforter, my all in all
+[57.84 --> 62.68]  Here in the love of Christ I stand
+[62.68 --> 66.94]  Oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh
+[66.94 --> 72.22]  Oh-oh-oh-oh aw-oh-oh
+[72.22 --> 78.68]  Oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh
+[78.68 --> 81.84]  Oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh queorl
+[81.84 --> 88.72]  Where in the ground His body lay
+[88.72 --> 93.92]  Light of the world by darkness slain
+[93.92 --> 99.30]  Then bursting forth in glorious day
+[99.30 --> 104.12]  Up from the grave He rose again
+[104.12 --> 112.02]  And as He stands in victory
+[112.02 --> 117.94]  Since curse has lost its grip on me
+[117.94 --> 123.24]  For I am His and He is mine
+[123.24 --> 128.64]  Bought with the precious blood of Christ
+[128.64 --> 129.50]  Ooh
+[129.50 --> 136.50]  Ooh
+[136.50 --> 139.50]  Ooh
+[139.50 --> 140.50]  Ooh
+[140.50 --> 143.50]  Ooh
+[143.50 --> 145.50]  Ooh
+[145.50 --> 147.50]  Ooh
+[147.50 --> 151.50]  No guilt in life
+[151.50 --> 153.98]  No fear in death
+[153.98 --> 159.20]  This is the power of Christ in me
+[159.20 --> 164.20]  From life's first cry to final breath
+[164.20 --> 169.20]  Jesus commands my destiny
+[169.20 --> 172.20]  No power of hell
+[172.20 --> 174.20]  No scheme of man
+[174.20 --> 180.20]  Can ever pluck me from His hand
+[180.20 --> 181.20]  Till He returns
+[181.20 --> 182.20]  Till He returns
+[182.20 --> 183.20]  Or calls me home
+[183.20 --> 190.20]  Here in the power of Christ I'll stand
+[190.20 --> 192.20]  Oh
+[192.20 --> 196.20]  Oh
+[200.20 --> 202.20]  In Christ alone
+[202.20 --> 203.40]  Christ alone.
+[212.40 --> 215.98]  I find my strength.
+[216.30 --> 218.52]  I find my hope.
+[218.94 --> 223.74]  I find my help in Christ alone.
+[223.74 --> 228.74]  In fear of sails, when darkness falls,
+[228.74 --> 234.28]  I find my peace in Christ alone.
+[234.84 --> 237.14]  I give my life.
+[237.50 --> 239.66]  I give my all.
+[240.16 --> 244.70]  I sing this song to Christ alone.
+[245.38 --> 247.70]  The King of kings.
+[248.12 --> 250.36]  The Lord of all.
+[250.36 --> 255.14]  All heaven sings to Christ alone.
+[258.74 --> 261.82]  To Christ alone.
+[264.54 --> 267.10]  In Christ alone.
+[267.10 --> 272.58]  To Christ alone.
+[274.30 --> 278.60]  To Christ alone.
+[278.60 --> 297.30]  Until he returns or calls me home
+[297.30 --> 302.60]  And here in the power of Christ I still...
+[308.60 --> 331.60]  Hear, O Israel
+[331.60 --> 340.60]  The people of the Lord
+[341.16 --> 350.92]  Be still and know that he is God
+[350.92 --> 359.36]  Love the Lord your God
+[359.36 --> 366.66]  With the fullness of your heart
+[366.66 --> 371.48]  With all your mind
+[371.48 --> 378.48]  Your strength and soul
+[378.48 --> 385.48]  We draw near through Christ
+[385.48 --> 390.48]  Who saves us
+[390.48 --> 403.48]  We draw near to the throne of grace
+[403.48 --> 409.48]  Hear, O Israel
+[409.48 --> 418.38]  The people of the Lord
+[418.38 --> 422.58]  Come lift your voice
+[422.58 --> 427.48]  And praise your King
+[427.48 --> 432.48]  A love sending
+[432.48 --> 447.48]  My Savior
+[447.48 --> 448.48]  The people of the Lord
+[448.48 --> 449.48]  Come lift your voice
+[449.48 --> 450.48]  The people of the Lord
+[450.48 --> 452.48]  Come lift your voice
+[452.48 --> 453.48]  And praise your King
+[453.48 --> 456.48]  Allah sent in my Savior
+[456.48 --> 457.48]  The people of the Lord
+[457.48 --> 462.48]  He ended my sovereign die
+[462.48 --> 469.48]  Then did my sovereign die
+[469.48 --> 478.48]  But he devolved that sacred end
+[478.48 --> 485.48]  For such a worm as I
+[485.48 --> 494.48]  Was it for crimes that I had done
+[494.48 --> 502.48]  Though he crawled down upon the tree
+[502.48 --> 510.48]  Amazing, magic, grace unknown
+[510.48 --> 515.48]  Living in love beyond the tree
+[515.48 --> 517.48]  Am I the sun in darkness as I
+[517.48 --> 520.48]  Be the sun in darkness as I
+[520.48 --> 523.48]  Be the sun in darkness as I
+[523.48 --> 533.48]  Then shed his glory sing
+[533.48 --> 535.48]  Am I the sun in darkness as I
+[535.48 --> 539.48]  Am I the sun in darkness as I
+[539.48 --> 544.48]  Then shed his glory sing
+[544.48 --> 550.48]  Am I the sun in darkness as I
+[550.48 --> 556.76]  Was the mighty maker I,
+[556.76 --> 564.76]  O'er man the creature's sin?
+[564.76 --> 573.48]  Thus might I hide my blushing face,
+[573.48 --> 581.48]  While his deep loss of peace
+[581.48 --> 590.48]  Dissolve my heart in faithfulness,
+[590.48 --> 599.48]  And help my eyes with tears.
+[603.48 --> 619.48]  The drops of grief can't repay,
+[619.48 --> 628.48]  The debt of love I owe.
+[628.48 --> 636.48]  Here, Lord, I give myself away,
+[636.48 --> 644.48]  Tis all that I can do.
+[644.48 --> 652.48]  How blessed did my Savior plead,
+[652.48 --> 660.48]  And did my sovereign God.
+[660.48 --> 670.48]  Amazing, dirty grace unknown,
+[670.48 --> 678.48]  And love beyond the sea.
+[678.48 --> 688.48]  I give myself away,
+[688.48 --> 690.48]  And did my sovereign God.
+[690.48 --> 698.48]  Amen.
+[698.48 --> 703.48]  Tonight, we remember Jesus,
+[703.48 --> 707.48]  Who in darkness died on the cross.
+[707.48 --> 709.48]  Tonight, we remember Jesus,
+[709.48 --> 714.48]  Who in dying bore punishment of sin.
+[714.48 --> 716.48]  Tonight, we remember Jesus,
+[716.48 --> 721.48]  Who in death endured being forsaken by God the Father.
+[721.48 --> 727.48]  Tonight, we enter into the darkness of the Friday called good.
+[727.48 --> 731.48]  Because God calls us to worship,
+[731.48 --> 735.48]  And welcomes us into his presence.
+[735.48 --> 738.48]  Receive the greeting of our God.
+[738.48 --> 740.48]  The Lord be with you.
+[740.48 --> 747.48]  May the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ,
+[747.48 --> 748.48]  And the love of God the Father,
+[748.48 --> 751.48]  And the fellowship of the Holy Spirit,
+[751.48 --> 752.48]  Be with you all.
+[752.48 --> 753.48]  Amen.
+[753.48 --> 754.48]  Amen.
+[783.48 --> 793.48]  Amen.
+[793.48 --> 804.22]  O sacred head, thou wounded, with grief and shame may drown.
+[804.22 --> 816.54]  Thou stormfully surrounded, with thrones your holy crown.
+[816.54 --> 829.50]  O sacred head of glory, and blessing you have known.
+[829.50 --> 842.50]  Yet through disguise and glory, I claim you as my own.
+[842.50 --> 857.50]  I thought that you did suffer, was all for sin as gay.
+[857.50 --> 872.50]  Mine, mine was the transgression, but cures the deadly pain.
+[872.50 --> 889.88]  So here I kneel, my Savior, for I deserve your place.
+[889.88 --> 906.88]  Look on me with your favor, and save me by your grace.
+[906.88 --> 922.88]  What language shall I borrow, to thank you, dearest friend?
+[922.88 --> 940.88]  Lord, this your dying sorrow, your mercy without end.
+[940.88 --> 956.88]  Lord, make me yours forever, a loyal servant true.
+[956.88 --> 973.88]  Lord, let me never, never outlive my love for you.
+[973.88 --> 1001.98]  Dear God, O crucified Jesus, Son the Father, conceived by the Holy Spirit, born of the Virgin Mary, eternal word of God, we worship you.
+[1003.88 --> 1015.24]  O crucified Jesus, holy temple of God, dwelling place of the Most High, gate of heaven, burning flame of love, we worship you.
+[1017.24 --> 1026.82]  O crucified Jesus, sanctuary of justice and love, full of kindness, source of all faithfulness, we worship you.
+[1026.82 --> 1037.62]  O crucified Jesus, ruler of every heart, in you are the treasures of wisdom and knowledge.
+[1037.80 --> 1041.18]  In you dwells all the fullness of the Godhead.
+[1042.06 --> 1043.16]  We worship you.
+[1045.98 --> 1049.86]  Jesus, Lamb of God, have mercy on us.
+[1051.22 --> 1055.42]  Jesus, bearer of our sins, have mercy on us.
+[1055.42 --> 1059.92]  Jesus, Redeemer of the world, grant us peace.
+[1063.96 --> 1068.08]  Almighty God, look with mercy on your family.
+[1069.14 --> 1076.50]  For whom our Lord Jesus Christ was willing to be betrayed and to be given over to the hands of sinners
+[1076.50 --> 1086.76]  and to suffer death on the cross through him who now lives and reigns with you in the Holy Spirit,
+[1087.36 --> 1089.14]  one God forever and ever.
+[1090.22 --> 1090.58]  Amen.
+[1090.58 --> 1090.72]  Amen.
+[1090.72 --> 1090.78]  Amen.
+[1090.78 --> 1090.80]  Amen.
+[1090.80 --> 1094.72]  Amen.
+[1094.72 --> 1098.72]  Amen.
+[1098.72 --> 1100.72]  Amen.
+[1100.72 --> 1102.72]  Amen.
+[1102.72 --> 1103.72]  Amen.
+[1103.72 --> 1104.22]  Amen.
+[1104.22 --> 1104.64]  Amen.
+[1104.64 --> 1104.72]  Amen.
+[1104.72 --> 1104.76]  Amen.
+[1106.50 --> 1136.48]  Amen.
+[1136.50 --> 1136.76]  Amen.
+[1136.76 --> 1137.06]  Amen.
+[1137.06 --> 1137.34]  Amen.
+[1152.84 --> 1166.00]  Were you there when they crucified my Lord?
+[1166.00 --> 1178.00]  Were you there when they crucified my Lord?
+[1178.00 --> 1195.00]  Lord, sometimes it causes me to tremble.
+[1195.00 --> 1202.00]  Tremble, tremble.
+[1202.00 --> 1215.00]  Were you there when they crucified my Lord?
+[1215.00 --> 1230.00]  Were you there when they nailed Him to the tree?
+[1230.00 --> 1237.00]  Were you there when they nailed Him to the tree?
+[1237.00 --> 1244.00]  Oh, sometimes it causes me to tremble.
+[1244.00 --> 1259.00]  Oh, sometimes it causes me to tremble.
+[1259.00 --> 1266.00]  Tremble, tremble.
+[1266.00 --> 1269.00]  Tremble, tremble.
+[1269.00 --> 1281.00]  Were you there when they nailed Him to the tree?
+[1281.00 --> 1296.00]  Were you there when they laid Him in the tree?
+[1296.00 --> 1311.00]  Were you there when they laid Him in the tree?
+[1311.00 --> 1318.00]  Oh, sometimes it causes me to tremble.
+[1318.00 --> 1325.00]  Sometimes it causes me to tremble.
+[1325.00 --> 1333.00]  Tremble, tremble.
+[1333.00 --> 1339.00]  Tremble, tremble.
+[1339.00 --> 1354.00]  Were you there when they laid Him in the tomb?
+[1354.00 --> 1355.00]  Were you there when you paddle?
+[1356.00 --> 1361.00]  I am.
+[1361.00 --> 1377.28]  hydrated and
+[1377.28 --> 1381.80]  People with Jorge
+[1384.00 --> 1408.00]  Death Be Not Proud, The World Fear You
+[1408.00 --> 1415.00]  Mighty and dreadful You may seem
+[1415.00 --> 1424.00]  Death Be Not Proud, For Your Pride Has Filled You
+[1424.00 --> 1431.00]  You Will Not Kill Me
+[1431.00 --> 1440.00]  Though You May Dwell In Plague And Poison
+[1440.00 --> 1447.00]  You Are Slave To Fate And Desperate Men
+[1447.00 --> 1456.00]  So Death If You Are Sleep Be The Gates To Heaven
+[1456.00 --> 1471.00]  Why Your Confidence When You Will Be No More
+[1471.00 --> 1476.00]  Why Your Will Be No More
+[1476.00 --> 1480.00]  No More
+[1480.00 --> 1488.00]  Why Your Will Be No More
+[1488.00 --> 1495.00]  Even Death Will Die
+[1495.00 --> 1505.00]  Even Death Will Die
+[1505.00 --> 1511.00]  Death Be Not Proud
+[1511.00 --> 1518.00]  Death Be Not Proud
+[1518.00 --> 1522.00]  Death Be Not Proud
+[1522.00 --> 1526.00]  Death Be Not Proud
+[1526.00 --> 1548.00]  Death Поain
+[1548.00 --> 1554.00]  Death Be Not Proud
+[1554.00 --> 1566.64]  We're going to take some time together tonight in the story of Good Friday, and we're going
+[1566.64 --> 1571.30]  to pick up a part of that story that takes place just before the crucifixion.
+[1571.30 --> 1574.68]  It is the trail of Peter.
+[1575.38 --> 1579.92]  If you have a Bible, I invite you to open that up and to find the text there.
+[1580.00 --> 1581.52]  I'm going to read from Luke 22.
+[1581.52 --> 1584.96]  We're going to read verse 54 to 62.
+[1585.54 --> 1588.86]  You can follow along on the screen, but also with the Bible in your hands.
+[1591.74 --> 1593.82]  Before we read, let me pray.
+[1597.68 --> 1603.00]  Lord Jesus, take your word and plant it deep in our hearts tonight.
+[1603.00 --> 1611.78]  Water it by your spirit, that it may grow and produce fruit in our lives.
+[1613.04 --> 1618.28]  In the hearing of your word, may we see Jesus more clearly tonight.
+[1619.44 --> 1626.36]  May our hearts' affections for you be stirred as we are drawn into your presence.
+[1626.36 --> 1631.28]  May your voice be clear.
+[1633.42 --> 1636.22]  Our faith made more alive.
+[1637.46 --> 1640.94]  We come to the cross and remember your death.
+[1642.18 --> 1643.24]  In Jesus' name we pray.
+[1644.38 --> 1644.58]  Amen.
+[1644.58 --> 1648.90]  Luke 22.
+[1648.90 --> 1657.86]  Then, seizing him, Jesus, they led him away and took him into the house of the high priest.
+[1658.92 --> 1660.46]  Peter followed at a distance.
+[1661.80 --> 1666.62]  And when some there had kindled a fire in the middle of the courtyard and had sat down together,
+[1667.76 --> 1668.98]  Peter sat down with them.
+[1668.98 --> 1673.30]  A servant girl saw him seated there in the firelight.
+[1674.20 --> 1676.18]  She looked closely at him and said,
+[1676.96 --> 1678.56]  This man was with them.
+[1679.54 --> 1680.78]  But he denied it.
+[1681.78 --> 1683.30]  Woman, I don't know you.
+[1683.48 --> 1684.76]  I don't know him, he said.
+[1686.28 --> 1688.82]  A little later, someone else saw him and said,
+[1689.56 --> 1691.38]  You also are one of them.
+[1692.10 --> 1694.36]  Man, I am not, Peter replied.
+[1694.36 --> 1699.48]  About an hour later, another asserted,
+[1700.38 --> 1704.60]  Certainly, this fellow was with him, for he is a Galilean.
+[1706.32 --> 1707.00]  Peter replied,
+[1707.12 --> 1709.52]  Man, I don't know what you're talking about.
+[1710.52 --> 1714.04]  Just as he was speaking, the rooster crowed.
+[1715.32 --> 1719.46]  The Lord turned and looked straight at Peter.
+[1719.46 --> 1724.78]  And then Peter remembered the word the Lord had spoken to him.
+[1726.12 --> 1730.96]  Before the rooster crows today, you will disown me three times.
+[1731.92 --> 1735.78]  He went outside, wept bitterly.
+[1737.12 --> 1738.34]  That's the word of the Lord.
+[1738.34 --> 1751.28]  Begin tonight, I want to just set the stage by following the timeline of events
+[1751.28 --> 1754.50]  that sort of gets to the story as we have read it.
+[1756.10 --> 1758.68]  The Passover meal has concluded.
+[1758.86 --> 1761.88]  Now, the Passover meal starts the day.
+[1762.88 --> 1766.66]  So in the Jewish calendar, the day starts after sunset.
+[1766.66 --> 1771.82]  And in Israel, about this time of year, around Passover, it's about 7 p.m.
+[1773.38 --> 1777.72]  Now, after the meal, Jesus teaches his disciples about greatness.
+[1778.28 --> 1781.14]  And then he makes a prophecy about Peter's denial.
+[1782.24 --> 1788.86]  And then after Peter's denial, there is a story of Jesus traveling to the Mount of Olives to pray,
+[1789.16 --> 1790.60]  as he would normally do.
+[1790.74 --> 1794.16]  And by this time, it's already getting late in the evening.
+[1794.16 --> 1801.18]  Now, the disciples are chastised for falling asleep while Jesus is praying.
+[1801.44 --> 1805.16]  And so I think it's safe to assume that it's probably around midnight.
+[1805.16 --> 1813.84]  And then you get the story in verse 47 and 48 of Jesus being revealed to the chief priests
+[1813.84 --> 1818.98]  and the gang of people who have come to arrest him by the betrayal of Judas' kiss.
+[1819.78 --> 1823.46]  And then once he is arrested, he is taken to the high priest house,
+[1823.60 --> 1825.12]  and that's the high priest Caiaphas.
+[1825.12 --> 1830.22]  And then we get the story that we read, the story of Peter's three denials.
+[1831.22 --> 1836.10]  The story comes to a close as the rooster crows in verse 60, and Peter remembers.
+[1836.38 --> 1841.38]  And then verse 66, which we didn't read, begins with the little phrase,
+[1841.88 --> 1843.16]  at daybreak.
+[1844.00 --> 1849.74]  Now, again, at about this time of year in Israel, that would be around 6.30 in the morning.
+[1849.74 --> 1857.42]  Now, a formal trial of the Sanhedrin in order to pass a death sentence could only happen after daybreak.
+[1858.08 --> 1860.20]  Now, it's unusual to do that on a feast day.
+[1860.28 --> 1862.96]  This is still Passover day, but it's not unheard of.
+[1863.76 --> 1866.00]  Now, why do I spell that out for you?
+[1866.06 --> 1868.88]  Why do we trace that timeline?
+[1868.88 --> 1883.66]  I want to do that because it means that Peter's three denials probably occurred over a three-to-six-hour period.
+[1885.18 --> 1893.88]  Three-to-six hours, long through the night, a whole night of hiding who he is,
+[1893.94 --> 1896.48]  a whole night of hiding the truth.
+[1898.88 --> 1910.04]  When I think about this story, I think about the times in my life where I've spent a whole night hiding the truth about who I am.
+[1910.86 --> 1914.66]  A whole night hiding the truth about who Jesus is.
+[1915.94 --> 1920.94]  When I was younger and I was at a party doing things that I shouldn't have been doing,
+[1921.18 --> 1924.64]  I spent a whole night denying the truth about who I am.
+[1924.64 --> 1928.66]  A whole night denying the reality that the next day I was supposed to get up and go to church.
+[1929.80 --> 1934.62]  And in doing that, I spent the whole night denying Jesus.
+[1935.92 --> 1937.56]  Maybe for you, it happens at work.
+[1938.30 --> 1938.50]  Right?
+[1938.54 --> 1940.04]  There's a conversation that's happening,
+[1940.04 --> 1944.54]  and jokes are being told that you know you probably shouldn't laugh at,
+[1944.82 --> 1946.60]  but you kind of just lower your head.
+[1946.92 --> 1949.96]  You half-smile if someone makes eye contact with you.
+[1950.08 --> 1950.94]  You try to hide.
+[1951.04 --> 1952.10]  You're trying to fit in.
+[1952.40 --> 1952.54]  Right?
+[1952.56 --> 1954.06]  You're afraid to be called out.
+[1955.54 --> 1956.78]  You're denying Jesus.
+[1958.44 --> 1959.22]  In fact,
+[1959.22 --> 1963.54]  anytime you willfully disobey,
+[1963.68 --> 1963.84]  right,
+[1963.96 --> 1966.60]  willful, regular patterns of disobedience,
+[1966.86 --> 1969.00]  you're denying Jesus.
+[1970.68 --> 1973.46]  Maybe it's pornography for you, right?
+[1973.46 --> 1976.68]  In that you are willfully denying Jesus,
+[1976.90 --> 1977.48]  who said,
+[1977.92 --> 1982.24]  anyone who looks at a woman lustfully has committed adultery in their heart.
+[1983.02 --> 1983.56]  Or,
+[1983.64 --> 1986.22]  anytime you refuse to forgive someone,
+[1986.50 --> 1989.24]  you are denying the voice of Jesus,
+[1989.44 --> 1990.02]  who says,
+[1990.38 --> 1992.22]  bear with each other and forgive one another.
+[1992.22 --> 1994.36]  And if any of you has a grievance against someone,
+[1994.78 --> 1997.66]  forgive as the Lord forgave you.
+[1999.06 --> 2001.66]  This is what I hope we can see together tonight.
+[2002.36 --> 2004.50]  And it comes in two parts.
+[2005.14 --> 2005.46]  First,
+[2006.40 --> 2007.42]  Peter's rejection
+[2007.42 --> 2010.40]  is my rejection.
+[2011.94 --> 2013.00]  And then second,
+[2013.30 --> 2014.32]  what we'll see is that
+[2014.32 --> 2015.48]  Jesus' rejection
+[2015.48 --> 2018.32]  is my salvation.
+[2019.64 --> 2020.60]  Peter's rejection
+[2020.60 --> 2021.64]  is my rejection,
+[2021.64 --> 2022.88]  and Jesus' rejection
+[2022.88 --> 2024.76]  is my salvation.
+[2025.34 --> 2026.34]  To that first point then,
+[2026.52 --> 2027.88]  let's start with a question.
+[2028.84 --> 2031.04]  How is disobedience
+[2031.04 --> 2033.18]  the same as denying?
+[2035.04 --> 2036.88]  When you hang on to unforgiveness,
+[2037.32 --> 2038.36]  when you keep doing
+[2038.36 --> 2040.00]  what you know in your head
+[2040.00 --> 2042.48]  to be contrary to God's will for you,
+[2042.72 --> 2044.98]  you are revealing in your heart
+[2044.98 --> 2046.80]  that you aren't really sure
+[2046.80 --> 2047.84]  Jesus was right.
+[2049.10 --> 2049.28]  Right?
+[2049.30 --> 2050.80]  When we chose or choose
+[2050.80 --> 2052.64]  what we know to be sin
+[2052.64 --> 2054.84]  over what we know to be right,
+[2054.96 --> 2056.06]  we're denying Jesus.
+[2056.50 --> 2058.86]  Denying that God's design for our life
+[2058.86 --> 2060.40]  is really for our joy.
+[2061.40 --> 2061.86]  Instead,
+[2062.20 --> 2063.42]  we think that porn
+[2063.42 --> 2064.82]  has a greater joy to offer.
+[2065.14 --> 2066.72]  We think that social acceptance
+[2066.72 --> 2067.86]  at work or school
+[2067.86 --> 2068.42]  will yield
+[2068.42 --> 2070.08]  a greater joy
+[2070.08 --> 2071.16]  in our lives.
+[2072.46 --> 2073.62]  We're going to dig deep
+[2073.62 --> 2074.68]  for a moment,
+[2074.82 --> 2076.12]  and so let's think
+[2076.12 --> 2077.38]  theologically
+[2077.38 --> 2078.64]  together.
+[2080.50 --> 2081.26]  Hebrews 12
+[2081.26 --> 2082.48]  says that
+[2082.48 --> 2084.28]  Jesus endured the cross
+[2084.28 --> 2085.48]  for the joy
+[2085.48 --> 2087.22]  set before him.
+[2088.22 --> 2088.48]  Now,
+[2088.86 --> 2090.40]  don't hear what I'm not saying.
+[2091.02 --> 2091.16]  Right?
+[2091.22 --> 2091.78]  The cross
+[2091.78 --> 2093.18]  is not joy.
+[2093.52 --> 2095.12]  What comes after the cross
+[2095.12 --> 2095.64]  is joy.
+[2095.72 --> 2096.24]  The cross
+[2096.24 --> 2097.08]  is a curse.
+[2097.36 --> 2097.84]  The cross
+[2097.84 --> 2098.38]  is death.
+[2098.50 --> 2098.88]  The cross
+[2098.88 --> 2099.58]  is punishment
+[2099.58 --> 2100.48]  for sin.
+[2100.48 --> 2101.12]  The cross
+[2101.12 --> 2101.74]  is pain
+[2101.74 --> 2102.36]  and agony
+[2102.36 --> 2103.40]  and forsakenness.
+[2103.66 --> 2104.36]  The cross
+[2104.36 --> 2105.36]  is rejection.
+[2106.62 --> 2107.82]  Jesus endured
+[2107.82 --> 2108.54]  death,
+[2109.08 --> 2109.46]  punishment
+[2109.46 --> 2110.14]  for sin
+[2110.14 --> 2111.22]  that he did not commit.
+[2111.52 --> 2112.10]  He endured
+[2112.10 --> 2113.02]  being forsaken
+[2113.02 --> 2114.00]  by the Father
+[2114.00 --> 2114.80]  on the cross
+[2114.80 --> 2115.90]  for the joy
+[2115.90 --> 2116.94]  that would come
+[2116.94 --> 2117.84]  after.
+[2120.22 --> 2120.42]  Now,
+[2120.46 --> 2121.24]  the Christ hymn
+[2121.24 --> 2122.52]  of Philippians 2
+[2122.52 --> 2123.78]  helps us fill this out.
+[2124.20 --> 2124.30]  Right?
+[2124.36 --> 2124.92]  The Christ hymn
+[2124.92 --> 2125.64]  in Philippians 2
+[2125.64 --> 2126.44]  says that Jesus
+[2126.44 --> 2128.28]  had to learn obedience
+[2128.28 --> 2129.62]  and that that obedience
+[2129.62 --> 2130.94]  took him to death,
+[2131.00 --> 2131.64]  even death
+[2131.64 --> 2132.64]  on the cross
+[2132.64 --> 2134.38]  and because of that
+[2134.38 --> 2135.36]  he is exalted
+[2135.36 --> 2137.16]  to the highest place.
+[2137.24 --> 2138.18]  He is raised up
+[2138.18 --> 2139.60]  as ruler over all
+[2139.60 --> 2141.28]  and how does the Christ hymn
+[2141.28 --> 2142.12]  of Philippians 2
+[2142.12 --> 2142.72]  then end?
+[2143.72 --> 2144.32]  It says,
+[2145.16 --> 2145.72]  every tongue
+[2145.72 --> 2146.66]  will confess
+[2146.66 --> 2147.38]  that Jesus
+[2147.38 --> 2148.22]  is Lord,
+[2149.32 --> 2150.12]  the glory
+[2150.12 --> 2151.44]  God
+[2151.44 --> 2152.58]  Father.
+[2153.46 --> 2154.66]  The joy
+[2154.66 --> 2155.60]  that was
+[2155.60 --> 2156.78]  before him
+[2156.78 --> 2157.72]  that enabled him
+[2157.72 --> 2159.22]  to endure the cross
+[2159.22 --> 2160.30]  is the glory
+[2160.30 --> 2160.96]  is the glory of God.
+[2162.08 --> 2162.82]  The joy
+[2162.82 --> 2163.74]  that was set
+[2163.74 --> 2164.46]  before him
+[2164.46 --> 2165.26]  that caused him
+[2165.26 --> 2166.30]  to empty himself
+[2166.30 --> 2167.64]  and to learn obedience,
+[2167.72 --> 2168.36]  even obedience
+[2168.36 --> 2168.98]  unto death
+[2168.98 --> 2169.90]  on the cross
+[2169.90 --> 2170.88]  was the glory
+[2170.88 --> 2171.70]  of God,
+[2171.78 --> 2172.26]  the Father.
+[2172.86 --> 2174.24]  Everything Jesus did,
+[2174.36 --> 2175.54]  everything he endured,
+[2175.68 --> 2176.22]  he did
+[2176.22 --> 2177.24]  for the glory
+[2177.24 --> 2177.92]  of God.
+[2179.66 --> 2180.72]  And so this
+[2180.72 --> 2181.74]  question
+[2181.74 --> 2183.56]  begins to emerge.
+[2184.40 --> 2184.50]  Right?
+[2184.50 --> 2187.00]  What enables you
+[2187.00 --> 2188.16]  now
+[2188.16 --> 2189.16]  to choose
+[2189.16 --> 2189.76]  obedience
+[2189.76 --> 2190.96]  in the hard
+[2190.96 --> 2191.64]  places?
+[2193.64 --> 2194.18]  For the joy
+[2194.18 --> 2195.54]  set before you
+[2195.54 --> 2197.22]  take up the cross
+[2197.22 --> 2198.20]  and follow him.
+[2198.72 --> 2198.84]  Right?
+[2198.88 --> 2199.54]  Because the joy
+[2199.54 --> 2200.74]  that's set before you
+[2200.74 --> 2201.16]  too
+[2201.16 --> 2202.10]  right here
+[2202.10 --> 2202.80]  and right now
+[2202.80 --> 2203.48]  as you daily
+[2203.48 --> 2204.32]  take up your cross
+[2204.32 --> 2205.42]  is the glory
+[2205.42 --> 2206.08]  of God.
+[2207.36 --> 2208.22]  What does Paul say
+[2208.22 --> 2209.14]  in Romans 8?
+[2209.14 --> 2210.32]  that I consider
+[2210.32 --> 2211.72]  our present sufferings
+[2211.72 --> 2212.48]  are not worth
+[2212.48 --> 2213.02]  comparing
+[2213.02 --> 2214.06]  to the glory
+[2214.06 --> 2214.90]  that will be
+[2214.90 --> 2215.82]  revealed in us.
+[2216.44 --> 2218.10]  God will be glorified
+[2218.10 --> 2219.26]  and your joy
+[2219.26 --> 2220.52]  is the glorifying
+[2220.52 --> 2221.38]  of God.
+[2221.50 --> 2222.20]  Your suffering
+[2222.20 --> 2223.40]  now will be used
+[2223.40 --> 2224.48]  to magnify
+[2224.48 --> 2225.36]  the glory
+[2225.36 --> 2226.18]  of God then.
+[2226.46 --> 2227.10]  Your obedience
+[2227.10 --> 2228.28]  now will be used
+[2228.28 --> 2229.28]  to magnify
+[2229.28 --> 2230.12]  the glory
+[2230.12 --> 2230.90]  of God then.
+[2233.02 --> 2233.72]  Let me
+[2233.72 --> 2235.02]  spell this out
+[2235.02 --> 2236.24]  for you
+[2236.24 --> 2236.62]  in a way
+[2236.62 --> 2237.54]  that might work
+[2237.54 --> 2238.66]  for those of you
+[2238.66 --> 2239.70]  math-brained
+[2239.70 --> 2240.44]  sort of people.
+[2241.34 --> 2241.88]  Maybe you
+[2241.88 --> 2242.68]  remember this
+[2242.68 --> 2243.98]  from high school math
+[2243.98 --> 2244.26]  right?
+[2244.42 --> 2245.34]  A equals B
+[2245.34 --> 2246.90]  B equals C
+[2246.90 --> 2247.68]  therefore
+[2247.68 --> 2250.90]  A equals C
+[2250.90 --> 2252.22]  right?
+[2252.26 --> 2252.66]  That's called
+[2252.66 --> 2254.14]  the transitive property.
+[2255.34 --> 2255.74]  Now let's put
+[2255.74 --> 2256.80]  what we have just
+[2256.80 --> 2257.44]  seen
+[2257.44 --> 2258.60]  through that
+[2258.60 --> 2259.38]  formula.
+[2260.62 --> 2261.34]  Your joy
+[2261.34 --> 2262.38]  equals
+[2262.38 --> 2263.70]  glorifying God.
+[2264.70 --> 2265.84]  Glorifying God
+[2265.84 --> 2266.64]  equals
+[2266.64 --> 2268.02]  your obedience
+[2268.02 --> 2269.06]  therefore
+[2269.06 --> 2270.92]  your obedience
+[2270.92 --> 2271.94]  equals
+[2271.94 --> 2273.20]  your joy.
+[2274.56 --> 2274.68]  Right?
+[2274.72 --> 2275.40]  Are you tracking
+[2275.40 --> 2276.40]  with me in this?
+[2276.50 --> 2277.36]  The Bible says
+[2277.36 --> 2278.22]  that your
+[2278.22 --> 2279.50]  greatest joy
+[2279.50 --> 2280.40]  comes from
+[2280.40 --> 2281.60]  glorifying God
+[2281.60 --> 2282.32]  from being
+[2282.32 --> 2283.42]  fully human
+[2283.42 --> 2284.06]  and alive
+[2284.06 --> 2284.50]  in Him
+[2284.50 --> 2284.92]  from being
+[2284.92 --> 2285.80]  fully obedient
+[2285.80 --> 2286.36]  to Him
+[2286.36 --> 2287.26]  and even
+[2287.26 --> 2287.98]  though Jesus'
+[2288.26 --> 2288.66]  obedience
+[2288.66 --> 2289.32]  took Him
+[2289.32 --> 2290.00]  to the cross
+[2290.00 --> 2290.70]  He endured
+[2290.70 --> 2291.18]  it because
+[2291.18 --> 2292.06]  of the joy
+[2292.06 --> 2292.68]  that would
+[2292.68 --> 2293.04]  follow.
+[2293.16 --> 2293.70]  He endured
+[2293.70 --> 2294.14]  it because
+[2294.14 --> 2295.20]  of the glory
+[2295.20 --> 2295.76]  it brings
+[2295.76 --> 2296.20]  to God
+[2296.20 --> 2297.06]  the Father.
+[2298.48 --> 2299.12]  Now there's
+[2299.12 --> 2299.96]  a thought
+[2299.96 --> 2300.76]  here.
+[2302.12 --> 2302.56]  Right?
+[2302.58 --> 2303.04]  What does this
+[2303.04 --> 2303.84]  mean for our
+[2303.84 --> 2304.76]  suffering?
+[2304.88 --> 2305.20]  What does this
+[2305.20 --> 2305.68]  mean for our
+[2305.68 --> 2306.38]  trials?
+[2306.52 --> 2306.76]  For our
+[2306.76 --> 2307.48]  taking up
+[2307.48 --> 2308.10]  our crosses?
+[2308.24 --> 2308.34]  Right?
+[2308.38 --> 2308.74]  If your
+[2308.74 --> 2309.22]  obedience
+[2309.22 --> 2309.94]  to the will
+[2309.94 --> 2310.38]  of God
+[2310.38 --> 2310.98]  brings trial
+[2310.98 --> 2311.40]  and hardship
+[2311.40 --> 2311.86]  and struggle
+[2311.86 --> 2312.36]  and you can
+[2312.36 --> 2313.12]  proceed through
+[2313.12 --> 2313.70]  it because
+[2313.70 --> 2314.20]  of the same
+[2314.20 --> 2314.64]  joy that
+[2314.64 --> 2314.96]  is set
+[2314.96 --> 2315.70]  before you
+[2315.70 --> 2317.26]  what is
+[2317.26 --> 2317.58]  that
+[2317.58 --> 2318.60]  joy?
+[2319.24 --> 2319.84]  And that's a
+[2319.84 --> 2320.30]  thought and we're
+[2320.30 --> 2320.62]  going to come
+[2320.62 --> 2321.18]  back to that
+[2321.18 --> 2321.90]  in a moment
+[2321.90 --> 2322.72]  so just know
+[2322.72 --> 2323.18]  that we will
+[2323.18 --> 2323.54]  get there
+[2323.54 --> 2324.02]  but park
+[2324.02 --> 2324.48]  it for a
+[2324.48 --> 2324.66]  minute.
+[2325.70 --> 2326.18]  But right
+[2326.18 --> 2328.10]  now since
+[2328.10 --> 2329.16]  it is true
+[2329.16 --> 2330.90]  that glorifying
+[2330.90 --> 2331.90]  God is my
+[2331.90 --> 2332.54]  joy and
+[2332.54 --> 2333.30]  obedience to
+[2333.30 --> 2334.52]  God glorifies
+[2334.52 --> 2335.20]  Him therefore
+[2335.20 --> 2336.46]  obedience is
+[2336.46 --> 2337.40]  my joy since
+[2337.40 --> 2338.16]  that is true
+[2338.16 --> 2339.72]  anytime you
+[2339.72 --> 2341.54]  choose disobedience
+[2341.54 --> 2342.94]  you are spurning
+[2342.94 --> 2343.96]  the glory of
+[2343.96 --> 2344.30]  God.
+[2345.42 --> 2346.46]  Anytime you
+[2346.46 --> 2347.84]  choose disobedience
+[2347.84 --> 2348.58]  you are saying
+[2348.58 --> 2349.38]  the glory of
+[2349.38 --> 2350.30]  God is not
+[2350.30 --> 2351.26]  my
+[2351.26 --> 2352.20]  joy
+[2352.20 --> 2353.88]  but Jesus
+[2353.88 --> 2355.00]  is not
+[2355.00 --> 2355.54]  my joy.
+[2356.74 --> 2357.36]  John says
+[2357.36 --> 2358.32]  in the opening
+[2358.32 --> 2359.08]  chapter of
+[2359.08 --> 2360.00]  his gospel
+[2360.00 --> 2360.44]  that we have
+[2360.44 --> 2361.42]  seen the glory
+[2361.42 --> 2362.18]  of the one
+[2362.18 --> 2362.96]  and only
+[2362.96 --> 2363.66]  come from
+[2363.66 --> 2364.20]  the Father
+[2364.20 --> 2365.22]  full of
+[2365.22 --> 2365.90]  grace and
+[2365.90 --> 2366.28]  truth.
+[2367.02 --> 2367.78]  Colossians 1
+[2367.78 --> 2368.18]  makes it
+[2368.18 --> 2368.84]  abundantly clear
+[2368.84 --> 2369.40]  that Jesus
+[2369.40 --> 2370.68]  is the glory
+[2370.68 --> 2371.46]  of God
+[2371.46 --> 2372.50]  made visible
+[2372.50 --> 2373.08]  he is the
+[2373.08 --> 2373.62]  image of
+[2373.62 --> 2374.26]  the invisible
+[2374.26 --> 2374.74]  God
+[2374.74 --> 2375.72]  Jesus is
+[2375.72 --> 2376.38]  the perfect
+[2376.38 --> 2377.68]  picture of
+[2377.68 --> 2378.18]  obedience
+[2378.18 --> 2378.78]  and Jesus
+[2378.78 --> 2379.44]  shows us
+[2379.44 --> 2379.78]  what it
+[2379.78 --> 2380.60]  looks like
+[2380.60 --> 2381.18]  to really
+[2381.18 --> 2381.98]  be fully
+[2381.98 --> 2382.46]  human
+[2382.46 --> 2383.64]  fully alive
+[2383.64 --> 2384.00]  and when
+[2384.00 --> 2384.52]  you choose
+[2384.52 --> 2385.34]  something other
+[2385.34 --> 2386.10]  than him
+[2386.10 --> 2388.06]  you are in
+[2388.06 --> 2390.24]  fact denying
+[2390.24 --> 2391.38]  him.
+[2393.20 --> 2394.12]  When you
+[2394.12 --> 2395.10]  make your
+[2395.10 --> 2395.60]  career
+[2395.60 --> 2397.14]  your goal
+[2397.14 --> 2398.16]  in life
+[2398.16 --> 2398.68]  and the
+[2398.68 --> 2399.36]  source of
+[2399.36 --> 2400.32]  your meaning
+[2400.32 --> 2401.12]  and identity
+[2401.12 --> 2402.04]  in the world
+[2402.04 --> 2403.30]  you are denying
+[2403.30 --> 2403.84]  Jesus
+[2403.84 --> 2405.22]  who said
+[2405.22 --> 2406.64]  seek first
+[2406.64 --> 2407.46]  the kingdom
+[2407.46 --> 2408.60]  and his
+[2408.60 --> 2409.20]  righteousness
+[2409.20 --> 2410.42]  and these
+[2410.42 --> 2410.96]  things will
+[2410.96 --> 2411.46]  be added
+[2411.46 --> 2412.26]  to you.
+[2413.28 --> 2413.62]  When you
+[2413.62 --> 2414.60]  refuse to
+[2414.60 --> 2415.42]  love your
+[2415.42 --> 2416.06]  wife the
+[2416.06 --> 2416.64]  way Jesus
+[2416.64 --> 2417.38]  loved the
+[2417.38 --> 2417.72]  church
+[2417.72 --> 2418.76]  giving himself
+[2418.76 --> 2419.52]  up for her
+[2419.52 --> 2420.20]  or when you
+[2420.20 --> 2421.26]  don't respect
+[2421.26 --> 2422.04]  your husband
+[2422.04 --> 2422.82]  as the man
+[2422.82 --> 2423.26]  that God
+[2423.26 --> 2423.74]  has given
+[2423.74 --> 2424.14]  you to
+[2424.14 --> 2424.96]  reveal himself
+[2424.96 --> 2425.32]  through
+[2425.32 --> 2426.28]  you are both
+[2426.28 --> 2426.86]  denying
+[2426.86 --> 2427.40]  Jesus
+[2427.40 --> 2427.86]  because
+[2427.86 --> 2428.56]  marriage
+[2428.56 --> 2429.16]  is a
+[2429.16 --> 2429.96]  lived picture
+[2429.96 --> 2430.32]  of the
+[2430.32 --> 2430.74]  gospel
+[2430.74 --> 2431.66]  according to
+[2431.66 --> 2432.50]  Ephesians 5.
+[2433.38 --> 2433.68]  When you
+[2433.68 --> 2434.26]  don't honor
+[2434.26 --> 2435.00]  your parents
+[2435.00 --> 2435.34]  but you
+[2435.34 --> 2435.72]  fight
+[2435.72 --> 2436.32]  and you
+[2436.32 --> 2436.76]  lie
+[2436.76 --> 2437.22]  you are
+[2437.22 --> 2437.72]  denying
+[2437.72 --> 2438.70]  Jesus
+[2438.70 --> 2440.14]  when you
+[2440.14 --> 2440.60]  hang on to
+[2440.60 --> 2440.94]  bitterness
+[2440.94 --> 2442.02]  or malice
+[2442.02 --> 2442.86]  or rage
+[2442.86 --> 2443.46]  you are
+[2443.46 --> 2444.02]  denying
+[2444.02 --> 2445.36]  Jesus
+[2445.36 --> 2451.56]  disobedience
+[2451.56 --> 2452.80]  to the
+[2452.80 --> 2453.18]  will
+[2453.18 --> 2454.56]  and design
+[2454.56 --> 2455.36]  of God
+[2455.36 --> 2456.68]  isn't just
+[2456.68 --> 2458.32]  an innocuous
+[2458.32 --> 2459.36]  alternative way
+[2459.36 --> 2459.90]  of living
+[2459.90 --> 2460.96]  in the world
+[2460.96 --> 2461.46]  it is a
+[2461.46 --> 2461.96]  rejection
+[2461.96 --> 2463.12]  of the joy
+[2463.12 --> 2463.70]  that God
+[2463.70 --> 2464.52]  has for you
+[2464.52 --> 2464.98]  it's a
+[2464.98 --> 2465.88]  repudiation
+[2465.88 --> 2466.70]  of God's
+[2466.70 --> 2467.20]  plan for
+[2467.20 --> 2467.74]  his glory
+[2467.74 --> 2468.18]  it is a
+[2468.18 --> 2468.70]  denial
+[2468.70 --> 2469.74]  of Jesus
+[2469.74 --> 2472.38]  it's a
+[2472.38 --> 2472.76]  rejection
+[2472.76 --> 2473.58]  of why
+[2473.58 --> 2474.04]  Jesus
+[2474.04 --> 2474.60]  had to
+[2474.60 --> 2474.88]  come
+[2474.88 --> 2475.80]  into the
+[2475.80 --> 2476.14]  world
+[2476.14 --> 2478.10]  2 Corinthians
+[2478.10 --> 2478.92]  5.21
+[2478.92 --> 2479.44]  says that
+[2479.44 --> 2479.80]  God
+[2479.80 --> 2480.58]  made him
+[2480.58 --> 2480.96]  who
+[2480.96 --> 2481.80]  had no
+[2481.80 --> 2482.06]  sin
+[2482.06 --> 2482.60]  to be
+[2482.60 --> 2482.84]  sin
+[2482.84 --> 2483.40]  for us
+[2483.40 --> 2483.76]  so that
+[2483.76 --> 2484.26]  in him
+[2484.26 --> 2484.94]  we might
+[2484.94 --> 2485.46]  become
+[2485.46 --> 2485.78]  the
+[2485.78 --> 2486.28]  righteousness
+[2486.28 --> 2487.70]  of God
+[2487.70 --> 2490.38]  he who
+[2490.38 --> 2490.82]  was
+[2490.82 --> 2491.36]  never
+[2491.36 --> 2492.38]  disobedient
+[2492.38 --> 2493.32]  bore the
+[2493.32 --> 2493.98]  disobedience
+[2493.98 --> 2494.28]  of us
+[2494.28 --> 2494.56]  all
+[2494.56 --> 2494.96]  so that
+[2494.96 --> 2495.52]  we might
+[2495.52 --> 2496.12]  be counted
+[2496.12 --> 2497.36]  obedient
+[2497.36 --> 2499.58]  to deny
+[2499.58 --> 2500.64]  him
+[2500.64 --> 2501.34]  is to
+[2501.34 --> 2501.84]  deny
+[2501.84 --> 2502.78]  this
+[2502.78 --> 2503.88]  truth
+[2503.88 --> 2505.08]  and instead
+[2505.08 --> 2506.78]  we are
+[2506.78 --> 2507.28]  all
+[2507.28 --> 2508.82]  every one
+[2508.82 --> 2509.38]  of us
+[2509.38 --> 2510.72]  Peters
+[2510.72 --> 2513.28]  here
+[2513.28 --> 2515.90]  crucible
+[2515.90 --> 2516.44]  moment
+[2516.44 --> 2518.14]  we are
+[2518.14 --> 2518.46]  Peter
+[2518.46 --> 2519.90]  I am
+[2519.90 --> 2520.58]  Peter
+[2520.58 --> 2521.00]  you
+[2521.00 --> 2521.82]  are
+[2521.82 --> 2522.12]  a
+[2522.12 --> 2522.40]  Peter
+[2522.40 --> 2523.06]  we
+[2523.06 --> 2523.42]  have
+[2523.42 --> 2524.06]  denied
+[2524.06 --> 2525.14]  Jesus
+[2525.14 --> 2526.64]  behold
+[2526.64 --> 2526.88]  the
+[2526.88 --> 2527.20]  lamb
+[2527.20 --> 2527.66]  on the
+[2527.66 --> 2528.04]  cross
+[2528.04 --> 2528.46]  my
+[2528.46 --> 2528.98]  sin
+[2528.98 --> 2529.70]  upon
+[2529.70 --> 2529.98]  his
+[2529.98 --> 2530.42]  shoulders
+[2530.42 --> 2530.90]  ashamed
+[2530.90 --> 2531.32]  I hear
+[2531.32 --> 2531.78]  my
+[2531.78 --> 2532.26]  mocking
+[2532.26 --> 2532.68]  voice
+[2532.68 --> 2533.38]  call out
+[2533.38 --> 2533.64]  among
+[2533.64 --> 2533.84]  the
+[2533.84 --> 2534.22]  scoffers
+[2534.22 --> 2534.52]  it was
+[2534.52 --> 2534.94]  my
+[2534.94 --> 2535.42]  sin
+[2535.42 --> 2535.92]  that
+[2535.92 --> 2536.18]  held
+[2536.18 --> 2536.34]  him
+[2536.34 --> 2536.54]  there
+[2536.54 --> 2537.14]  we
+[2537.14 --> 2537.64]  like
+[2537.64 --> 2538.18]  Peter
+[2538.18 --> 2538.66]  have
+[2538.66 --> 2539.18]  rejected
+[2539.18 --> 2539.92]  Jesus
+[2539.92 --> 2540.28]  and
+[2540.28 --> 2540.62]  are
+[2540.62 --> 2541.10]  hapless
+[2541.10 --> 2541.60]  and
+[2541.60 --> 2542.10]  helpless
+[2542.10 --> 2542.80]  in
+[2542.80 --> 2543.22]  ourselves
+[2543.22 --> 2543.60]  we are
+[2543.60 --> 2544.04]  hapless
+[2544.04 --> 2544.84]  and helpless
+[2544.84 --> 2545.16]  in that
+[2545.16 --> 2545.38]  we've
+[2545.38 --> 2545.80]  denied
+[2545.80 --> 2546.10]  him
+[2546.10 --> 2546.64]  Peter
+[2546.64 --> 2547.04]  denied
+[2547.04 --> 2547.26]  him
+[2547.26 --> 2547.54]  and we
+[2547.54 --> 2547.88]  can do
+[2547.88 --> 2548.10]  no
+[2548.10 --> 2548.42]  other
+[2548.42 --> 2549.14]  we can't
+[2549.14 --> 2549.48]  save
+[2549.48 --> 2549.92]  ourselves
+[2549.92 --> 2550.28]  we are
+[2550.28 --> 2550.66]  hapless
+[2550.66 --> 2551.52]  and helpless
+[2551.52 --> 2552.48]  but
+[2552.48 --> 2553.76]  we are
+[2553.76 --> 2554.34]  not
+[2554.34 --> 2555.34]  hopeless
+[2555.34 --> 2558.72]  then
+[2558.72 --> 2558.74]  then
+[2558.74 --> 2558.86]  the
+[2558.86 --> 2559.12]  Lord
+[2559.12 --> 2559.66]  turned
+[2559.66 --> 2559.92]  and
+[2559.92 --> 2560.32]  looked
+[2560.32 --> 2560.92]  straight
+[2560.92 --> 2562.10]  at
+[2562.10 --> 2562.40]  Peter
+[2562.40 --> 2563.64]  verse
+[2563.64 --> 2564.08]  61
+[2564.08 --> 2564.46]  of our
+[2564.46 --> 2564.82]  text
+[2564.82 --> 2565.32]  then
+[2565.32 --> 2565.46]  the
+[2565.46 --> 2565.64]  Lord
+[2565.64 --> 2566.14]  turned
+[2566.14 --> 2566.38]  and
+[2566.38 --> 2566.70]  looked
+[2566.70 --> 2567.50]  straight
+[2567.50 --> 2568.74]  at
+[2568.74 --> 2569.04]  Peter
+[2569.04 --> 2571.18]  what
+[2571.18 --> 2571.28]  do
+[2571.28 --> 2571.30]  you
+[2571.30 --> 2571.44]  think
+[2571.44 --> 2571.58]  was
+[2571.58 --> 2571.72]  in
+[2571.72 --> 2571.94]  Jesus
+[2571.94 --> 2572.40]  eyes
+[2572.40 --> 2573.08]  in
+[2573.08 --> 2573.34]  that
+[2573.34 --> 2573.74]  moment
+[2573.74 --> 2575.50]  what
+[2575.50 --> 2575.64]  was
+[2575.64 --> 2575.76]  in
+[2575.76 --> 2575.92]  his
+[2575.92 --> 2576.48]  eyes
+[2576.48 --> 2576.74]  as
+[2576.74 --> 2576.88]  he
+[2576.88 --> 2577.34]  turns
+[2577.34 --> 2577.86]  and
+[2577.86 --> 2578.24]  looks
+[2578.24 --> 2579.02]  at
+[2579.02 --> 2579.32]  Peter
+[2579.32 --> 2580.82]  Peter
+[2580.82 --> 2580.94]  is
+[2580.94 --> 2581.10]  down
+[2581.10 --> 2581.20]  in
+[2581.20 --> 2581.32]  a
+[2581.32 --> 2581.66]  courtyard
+[2581.66 --> 2582.40]  Jesus
+[2582.40 --> 2582.68]  is
+[2582.68 --> 2583.04]  probably
+[2583.04 --> 2583.38]  in
+[2583.38 --> 2583.60]  a
+[2583.60 --> 2583.86]  second
+[2583.86 --> 2584.44]  story
+[2584.44 --> 2585.00]  meeting
+[2585.00 --> 2585.28]  room
+[2585.28 --> 2585.40]  and
+[2585.40 --> 2585.54]  he
+[2585.54 --> 2586.04]  looks
+[2586.04 --> 2586.36]  out
+[2586.36 --> 2586.52]  a
+[2586.52 --> 2586.76]  window
+[2586.76 --> 2587.16]  down
+[2587.16 --> 2587.34]  to
+[2587.34 --> 2587.50]  the
+[2587.50 --> 2587.86]  courtyard
+[2587.86 --> 2588.30]  and
+[2588.30 --> 2588.40]  if
+[2588.40 --> 2588.48]  it
+[2588.48 --> 2588.60]  was
+[2588.60 --> 2588.78]  a
+[2588.78 --> 2589.12]  movie
+[2589.12 --> 2589.58]  the
+[2589.58 --> 2589.94]  music
+[2589.94 --> 2590.22]  would
+[2590.22 --> 2590.96]  stop
+[2590.96 --> 2591.58]  dead
+[2591.58 --> 2591.78]  at
+[2591.78 --> 2591.94]  this
+[2591.94 --> 2592.22]  moment
+[2592.22 --> 2592.42]  and
+[2592.42 --> 2592.58]  the
+[2592.58 --> 2593.22]  silence
+[2593.22 --> 2593.66]  would
+[2593.66 --> 2593.82]  be
+[2593.82 --> 2594.44]  deafening
+[2594.44 --> 2594.88]  as
+[2594.88 --> 2595.04]  the
+[2595.04 --> 2595.34]  camera
+[2595.34 --> 2595.74]  pans
+[2595.74 --> 2595.98]  from
+[2595.98 --> 2596.26]  Jesus
+[2596.26 --> 2596.62]  face
+[2596.62 --> 2597.02]  following
+[2597.02 --> 2597.30]  his
+[2597.30 --> 2597.54]  line
+[2597.54 --> 2597.68]  of
+[2597.68 --> 2597.92]  sight
+[2597.92 --> 2598.52]  directly
+[2598.52 --> 2598.84]  down
+[2598.84 --> 2599.00]  to
+[2599.00 --> 2599.24]  Peter
+[2599.24 --> 2599.78]  Peter
+[2599.78 --> 2599.98]  would
+[2599.98 --> 2600.20]  look
+[2600.20 --> 2600.42]  up
+[2600.42 --> 2600.60]  and
+[2600.60 --> 2601.06]  see
+[2601.06 --> 2601.40]  Jesus
+[2601.40 --> 2601.68]  head
+[2601.68 --> 2602.08]  slowly
+[2602.08 --> 2602.46]  turning
+[2602.46 --> 2602.62]  and
+[2602.62 --> 2602.74]  their
+[2602.74 --> 2603.06]  eyes
+[2603.06 --> 2603.26]  would
+[2603.26 --> 2603.60]  lock
+[2603.60 --> 2603.96]  and
+[2603.96 --> 2604.06]  it
+[2604.06 --> 2604.18]  would
+[2604.18 --> 2604.34]  be
+[2604.34 --> 2605.04]  silent
+[2605.04 --> 2605.50]  and
+[2605.50 --> 2606.10]  deafening
+[2606.10 --> 2606.50]  and
+[2606.50 --> 2606.64]  it
+[2606.64 --> 2606.74]  would
+[2606.74 --> 2606.90]  be
+[2606.90 --> 2607.38]  roaring
+[2607.38 --> 2607.82]  in
+[2607.82 --> 2608.14]  our
+[2608.14 --> 2608.90]  souls
+[2608.90 --> 2610.88]  Jesus
+[2610.88 --> 2611.50]  turned
+[2611.50 --> 2611.82]  and
+[2611.82 --> 2612.10]  looked
+[2612.10 --> 2612.72]  straight
+[2612.72 --> 2613.80]  at
+[2613.80 --> 2614.16]  Peter
+[2614.16 --> 2614.82]  Jesus
+[2614.82 --> 2615.38]  turns
+[2615.38 --> 2615.56]  and
+[2615.56 --> 2615.68]  he
+[2615.68 --> 2615.94]  looks
+[2615.94 --> 2616.44]  straight
+[2616.44 --> 2616.88]  at
+[2616.88 --> 2617.26]  you
+[2617.26 --> 2618.04]  now
+[2618.04 --> 2618.86]  here
+[2618.86 --> 2622.84]  the
+[2622.84 --> 2623.08]  first
+[2623.08 --> 2623.50]  time
+[2623.50 --> 2624.30]  that
+[2624.30 --> 2624.56]  Peter
+[2624.56 --> 2625.40]  met
+[2625.40 --> 2626.30]  Jesus
+[2626.30 --> 2627.80]  Andrew
+[2627.80 --> 2628.54]  brought
+[2628.54 --> 2629.18]  Peter
+[2629.18 --> 2629.76]  to
+[2629.76 --> 2630.22]  Jesus
+[2630.22 --> 2631.12]  he
+[2631.12 --> 2631.30]  was
+[2631.30 --> 2631.62]  still
+[2631.62 --> 2632.02]  called
+[2632.02 --> 2632.50]  Simon
+[2632.50 --> 2633.18]  then
+[2633.18 --> 2634.36]  we
+[2634.36 --> 2634.54]  can
+[2634.54 --> 2635.06]  read
+[2635.06 --> 2635.18]  in
+[2635.18 --> 2635.42]  that
+[2635.42 --> 2636.00]  story
+[2636.00 --> 2636.22]  that
+[2636.22 --> 2636.48]  Jesus
+[2636.48 --> 2636.90]  looked
+[2636.90 --> 2637.12]  at
+[2637.12 --> 2637.44]  Peter
+[2637.44 --> 2637.72]  and
+[2637.72 --> 2638.04]  said
+[2638.04 --> 2638.56]  you
+[2638.56 --> 2639.30]  are
+[2639.30 --> 2639.94]  Simon
+[2639.94 --> 2641.02]  son
+[2641.02 --> 2641.26]  of
+[2641.26 --> 2641.62]  John
+[2641.62 --> 2642.28]  you
+[2642.28 --> 2642.62]  will
+[2642.62 --> 2642.78]  be
+[2642.78 --> 2643.20]  called
+[2643.20 --> 2643.92]  Cephas
+[2643.92 --> 2644.58]  which
+[2644.58 --> 2644.86]  when
+[2644.86 --> 2645.46]  translated
+[2645.46 --> 2646.02]  is
+[2646.02 --> 2646.32]  Peter
+[2646.32 --> 2647.42]  the
+[2647.42 --> 2647.78]  first
+[2647.78 --> 2648.24]  time
+[2648.24 --> 2648.48]  that
+[2648.48 --> 2648.78]  Jesus
+[2648.78 --> 2649.26]  looked
+[2649.26 --> 2649.76]  straight
+[2649.76 --> 2650.26]  at
+[2650.26 --> 2650.64]  Peter
+[2650.64 --> 2651.10]  he
+[2651.10 --> 2651.44]  knew
+[2651.44 --> 2651.76]  him
+[2651.76 --> 2652.16]  and
+[2652.16 --> 2652.52]  gave
+[2652.52 --> 2652.76]  him
+[2652.76 --> 2653.02]  a
+[2653.02 --> 2653.34]  new
+[2653.34 --> 2654.08]  name
+[2654.08 --> 2654.70]  he
+[2654.70 --> 2655.00]  gave
+[2655.00 --> 2655.12]  him
+[2655.12 --> 2655.32]  a
+[2655.32 --> 2655.80]  purpose
+[2655.80 --> 2656.38]  and
+[2656.38 --> 2656.54]  a
+[2656.54 --> 2656.86]  meaning
+[2656.86 --> 2659.88]  Mark
+[2659.88 --> 2660.20]  10
+[2660.20 --> 2661.00]  Jesus
+[2661.00 --> 2661.36]  looked
+[2661.36 --> 2661.50]  at
+[2661.50 --> 2661.72]  them
+[2661.72 --> 2662.02]  and
+[2662.02 --> 2662.38]  said
+[2662.38 --> 2662.94]  with
+[2662.94 --> 2663.34]  man
+[2663.34 --> 2663.62]  this
+[2663.62 --> 2663.82]  is
+[2663.82 --> 2664.34]  impossible
+[2664.34 --> 2664.88]  but
+[2664.88 --> 2665.18]  not
+[2665.18 --> 2665.40]  with
+[2665.40 --> 2665.74]  God
+[2665.74 --> 2666.16]  all
+[2666.16 --> 2666.68]  things
+[2666.68 --> 2666.90]  are
+[2666.90 --> 2667.50]  possible
+[2667.50 --> 2668.12]  with
+[2668.12 --> 2668.46]  God
+[2668.46 --> 2669.18]  hapless
+[2669.18 --> 2669.76]  and
+[2669.76 --> 2670.16]  helpless
+[2670.16 --> 2670.72]  but
+[2670.72 --> 2671.14]  not
+[2671.14 --> 2672.08]  hopeless
+[2672.08 --> 2674.82]  one
+[2674.82 --> 2675.10]  time
+[2675.10 --> 2675.42]  Jesus
+[2675.42 --> 2675.86]  was
+[2675.86 --> 2676.76]  walking
+[2676.76 --> 2677.20]  along
+[2677.20 --> 2677.42]  and
+[2677.42 --> 2677.76]  teaching
+[2677.76 --> 2678.06]  and
+[2678.06 --> 2678.18]  a
+[2678.18 --> 2678.38]  man
+[2678.38 --> 2678.68]  ran
+[2678.68 --> 2678.92]  up
+[2678.92 --> 2679.12]  and
+[2679.12 --> 2679.36]  fell
+[2679.36 --> 2679.66]  down
+[2679.66 --> 2679.84]  in
+[2679.84 --> 2680.04]  front
+[2680.04 --> 2680.20]  of
+[2680.20 --> 2680.48]  Jesus
+[2680.48 --> 2680.80]  and
+[2680.80 --> 2681.10]  said
+[2681.10 --> 2681.50]  what
+[2681.50 --> 2681.74]  must
+[2681.74 --> 2681.90]  I
+[2681.90 --> 2682.06]  do
+[2682.06 --> 2682.22]  to
+[2682.22 --> 2682.38]  be
+[2682.38 --> 2682.70]  saved
+[2682.70 --> 2682.90]  what
+[2682.90 --> 2683.10]  must
+[2683.10 --> 2683.22]  I
+[2683.22 --> 2683.36]  do
+[2683.36 --> 2683.52]  to
+[2683.52 --> 2683.84]  inherit
+[2683.84 --> 2684.22]  eternal
+[2684.22 --> 2684.50]  life
+[2684.50 --> 2684.68]  and
+[2684.68 --> 2684.94]  Mark
+[2684.94 --> 2685.30]  tells
+[2685.30 --> 2685.50]  us
+[2685.50 --> 2685.68]  that
+[2685.68 --> 2686.32]  Jesus
+[2686.32 --> 2686.92]  looked
+[2686.92 --> 2687.14]  at
+[2687.14 --> 2687.46]  him
+[2687.46 --> 2688.88]  and
+[2688.88 --> 2689.30]  loved
+[2689.30 --> 2689.72]  him
+[2689.72 --> 2691.64]  he
+[2691.64 --> 2691.92]  looked
+[2691.92 --> 2692.08]  at
+[2692.08 --> 2692.42]  him
+[2692.42 --> 2694.18]  loved
+[2694.18 --> 2694.54]  him
+[2694.54 --> 2696.18]  what
+[2696.18 --> 2696.32]  was
+[2696.32 --> 2696.48]  on
+[2696.48 --> 2696.70]  Jesus
+[2696.70 --> 2697.14]  face
+[2697.14 --> 2697.30]  when
+[2697.30 --> 2697.44]  he
+[2697.44 --> 2697.66]  looked
+[2697.66 --> 2697.84]  at
+[2697.84 --> 2698.22]  Peter
+[2698.22 --> 2698.82]  in
+[2698.82 --> 2699.08]  that
+[2699.08 --> 2699.48]  moment
+[2699.48 --> 2699.96]  in
+[2699.96 --> 2700.24]  that
+[2700.24 --> 2700.64]  courtyard
+[2700.64 --> 2703.40]  I
+[2703.40 --> 2703.64]  believe
+[2703.64 --> 2703.76]  it
+[2703.76 --> 2703.88]  was
+[2703.88 --> 2704.18]  love
+[2704.18 --> 2705.96]  soul
+[2705.96 --> 2706.56]  piercing
+[2706.56 --> 2707.54]  heart
+[2707.54 --> 2708.34]  quenching
+[2708.34 --> 2708.98]  fully
+[2708.98 --> 2709.60]  known
+[2709.60 --> 2709.84]  and
+[2709.84 --> 2710.38]  fully
+[2710.38 --> 2711.32]  knowing
+[2711.32 --> 2712.32]  love
+[2712.32 --> 2719.20]  let
+[2719.20 --> 2719.26]  me
+[2719.26 --> 2719.42]  see
+[2719.42 --> 2719.56]  if
+[2719.56 --> 2719.66]  I
+[2719.66 --> 2719.82]  can
+[2719.82 --> 2720.82]  make
+[2720.82 --> 2720.96]  that
+[2720.96 --> 2721.14]  more
+[2721.14 --> 2721.60]  tangible
+[2721.60 --> 2721.94]  for
+[2721.94 --> 2722.14]  you
+[2722.14 --> 2724.86]  I
+[2724.86 --> 2724.98]  have
+[2724.98 --> 2725.26]  two
+[2725.26 --> 2726.02]  small
+[2726.02 --> 2726.52]  kids
+[2726.52 --> 2727.02]  my
+[2727.02 --> 2727.24]  daughter
+[2727.24 --> 2727.38]  is
+[2727.38 --> 2727.62]  eight
+[2727.62 --> 2727.84]  my
+[2727.84 --> 2728.02]  son
+[2728.02 --> 2728.16]  is
+[2728.16 --> 2728.48]  six
+[2728.48 --> 2729.58]  and
+[2729.58 --> 2729.70]  let
+[2729.70 --> 2729.80]  me
+[2729.80 --> 2730.00]  tell
+[2730.00 --> 2730.26]  you
+[2730.26 --> 2731.20]  when
+[2731.20 --> 2731.54]  people
+[2731.54 --> 2731.90]  tell
+[2731.90 --> 2732.10]  me
+[2732.10 --> 2732.28]  that
+[2732.28 --> 2732.42]  they
+[2732.42 --> 2732.62]  don't
+[2732.62 --> 2732.92]  believe
+[2732.92 --> 2733.08]  in
+[2733.08 --> 2733.20]  the
+[2733.20 --> 2733.66]  theological
+[2733.66 --> 2734.10]  doctrine
+[2734.10 --> 2734.26]  of
+[2734.26 --> 2734.50]  total
+[2734.50 --> 2735.04]  depravity
+[2735.04 --> 2735.52]  I
+[2735.52 --> 2735.76]  tell
+[2735.76 --> 2735.94]  them
+[2735.94 --> 2736.10]  to
+[2736.10 --> 2736.32]  raise
+[2736.32 --> 2736.86]  toddlers
+[2736.86 --> 2738.86]  now
+[2738.86 --> 2739.28]  thankfully
+[2739.28 --> 2739.86]  my
+[2739.86 --> 2740.12]  kids
+[2740.12 --> 2740.38]  aren't
+[2740.38 --> 2740.74]  toddlers
+[2740.74 --> 2741.04]  anymore
+[2741.04 --> 2741.24]  but
+[2741.24 --> 2741.32]  I
+[2741.32 --> 2741.42]  gotta
+[2741.42 --> 2741.66]  tell
+[2741.66 --> 2741.74]  you
+[2741.74 --> 2742.00]  total
+[2742.00 --> 2742.44]  depravity
+[2742.44 --> 2742.56]  is
+[2742.56 --> 2742.74]  still
+[2742.74 --> 2742.98]  real
+[2742.98 --> 2743.08]  in
+[2743.08 --> 2743.22]  my
+[2743.22 --> 2743.52]  house
+[2743.52 --> 2745.72]  now
+[2745.72 --> 2745.80]  when
+[2745.80 --> 2745.90]  they
+[2745.90 --> 2746.06]  were
+[2746.06 --> 2746.44]  younger
+[2746.44 --> 2748.14]  sometimes
+[2748.14 --> 2748.92]  they
+[2748.92 --> 2749.06]  would
+[2749.06 --> 2749.46]  disobey
+[2749.46 --> 2750.66]  and
+[2750.66 --> 2750.76]  they
+[2750.76 --> 2750.92]  needed
+[2750.92 --> 2751.36]  discipline
+[2751.36 --> 2751.76]  and
+[2751.76 --> 2751.84]  when
+[2751.84 --> 2751.94]  they
+[2751.94 --> 2752.14]  were
+[2752.14 --> 2753.02]  toddlers
+[2753.02 --> 2753.50]  one
+[2753.50 --> 2753.64]  of
+[2753.64 --> 2753.76]  the
+[2753.76 --> 2754.08]  things
+[2754.08 --> 2754.28]  that
+[2754.28 --> 2754.40]  we
+[2754.40 --> 2754.58]  would
+[2754.58 --> 2754.92]  do
+[2754.92 --> 2755.60]  as
+[2755.60 --> 2755.98]  parents
+[2755.98 --> 2756.16]  was
+[2756.16 --> 2756.40]  called
+[2756.40 --> 2756.80]  time
+[2756.80 --> 2757.18]  outs
+[2757.18 --> 2758.22]  right
+[2758.22 --> 2758.36]  and
+[2758.36 --> 2758.46]  you
+[2758.46 --> 2758.60]  would
+[2758.60 --> 2758.90]  go
+[2758.90 --> 2759.34]  sit
+[2759.34 --> 2759.52]  on
+[2759.52 --> 2759.70]  the
+[2759.70 --> 2760.14]  stairs
+[2760.14 --> 2760.68]  and
+[2760.68 --> 2760.78]  we
+[2760.78 --> 2760.90]  would
+[2760.90 --> 2761.02]  do
+[2761.02 --> 2761.22]  that
+[2761.22 --> 2761.70]  in
+[2761.70 --> 2761.86]  our
+[2761.86 --> 2762.12]  old
+[2762.12 --> 2762.40]  house
+[2762.40 --> 2762.68]  in
+[2762.68 --> 2762.96]  St.
+[2762.96 --> 2763.52]  Catherine's
+[2763.52 --> 2763.86]  in
+[2763.86 --> 2764.08]  such
+[2764.08 --> 2764.18]  a
+[2764.18 --> 2764.28]  way
+[2764.28 --> 2764.40]  that
+[2764.40 --> 2764.46]  you
+[2764.46 --> 2764.56]  had
+[2764.56 --> 2764.64]  to
+[2764.64 --> 2764.82]  go
+[2764.82 --> 2765.44]  just
+[2765.44 --> 2765.80]  high
+[2765.80 --> 2766.08]  enough
+[2766.08 --> 2766.30]  up
+[2766.30 --> 2766.46]  the
+[2766.46 --> 2766.74]  stairs
+[2766.74 --> 2766.96]  that
+[2766.96 --> 2767.14]  we
+[2767.14 --> 2767.28]  could
+[2767.28 --> 2767.50]  still
+[2767.50 --> 2767.74]  see
+[2767.74 --> 2767.94]  you
+[2767.94 --> 2768.10]  but
+[2768.10 --> 2768.28]  you
+[2768.28 --> 2768.62]  as
+[2768.62 --> 2768.74]  a
+[2768.74 --> 2768.90]  kid
+[2768.90 --> 2769.22]  couldn't
+[2769.22 --> 2769.38]  see
+[2769.38 --> 2769.54]  the
+[2769.54 --> 2769.86]  TV
+[2769.86 --> 2770.12]  that
+[2770.12 --> 2770.24]  was
+[2770.24 --> 2770.36]  in
+[2770.36 --> 2770.46]  the
+[2770.46 --> 2770.64]  living
+[2770.64 --> 2770.88]  room
+[2770.88 --> 2772.44]  and
+[2772.44 --> 2772.54]  then
+[2772.54 --> 2772.62]  you
+[2772.62 --> 2772.68]  would
+[2772.68 --> 2772.76]  have
+[2772.76 --> 2772.88]  to
+[2772.88 --> 2773.02]  sit
+[2773.02 --> 2773.20]  there
+[2773.20 --> 2773.38]  for
+[2773.38 --> 2773.52]  a
+[2773.52 --> 2773.74]  minute
+[2773.74 --> 2774.14]  or
+[2774.14 --> 2774.44]  two
+[2774.44 --> 2774.70]  or
+[2774.70 --> 2775.18]  five
+[2775.18 --> 2775.56]  depending
+[2775.56 --> 2775.86]  on
+[2775.86 --> 2776.36]  however
+[2776.36 --> 2776.62]  long
+[2776.62 --> 2776.72]  it
+[2776.72 --> 2776.86]  took
+[2776.86 --> 2777.00]  for
+[2777.00 --> 2777.12]  you
+[2777.12 --> 2777.32]  to
+[2777.32 --> 2777.74]  get
+[2777.74 --> 2777.82]  what
+[2777.82 --> 2777.90]  we
+[2777.90 --> 2778.00]  were
+[2778.00 --> 2778.24]  talking
+[2778.24 --> 2778.48]  about
+[2778.48 --> 2779.84]  and
+[2779.84 --> 2779.98]  then
+[2779.98 --> 2780.44]  after
+[2780.44 --> 2780.90]  you
+[2780.90 --> 2781.04]  had
+[2781.04 --> 2781.26]  sat
+[2781.26 --> 2781.44]  there
+[2781.44 --> 2781.60]  for
+[2781.60 --> 2781.74]  the
+[2781.74 --> 2782.00]  time
+[2782.00 --> 2782.30]  out
+[2782.30 --> 2783.04]  Rachel
+[2783.04 --> 2783.62]  or
+[2783.62 --> 2783.96]  I
+[2783.96 --> 2784.42]  would
+[2784.42 --> 2784.72]  go
+[2784.72 --> 2785.08]  over
+[2785.08 --> 2785.34]  and
+[2785.34 --> 2785.62]  talk
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+[2786.62 --> 2786.84]  in
+[2786.84 --> 2787.12]  time
+[2787.12 --> 2787.42]  out
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+[2788.34 --> 2788.46]  then
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+[2788.58 --> 2788.68]  would
+[2788.68 --> 2788.78]  have
+[2788.78 --> 2788.90]  to
+[2788.90 --> 2789.04]  say
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+[2789.48 --> 2790.10]  and
+[2790.10 --> 2790.24]  we
+[2790.24 --> 2790.42]  would
+[2790.42 --> 2790.84]  remind
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+[2791.20 --> 2791.48]  that
+[2791.48 --> 2792.26]  sorry
+[2792.26 --> 2793.00]  means
+[2793.00 --> 2793.42]  changing
+[2793.42 --> 2793.62]  your
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+[2794.96 --> 2795.18]  then
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+[2795.68 --> 2795.80]  I
+[2795.80 --> 2796.02]  love
+[2796.02 --> 2796.32]  you
+[2796.32 --> 2797.34]  and
+[2797.34 --> 2797.46]  I
+[2797.46 --> 2797.68]  forgive
+[2797.68 --> 2798.02]  you
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+[2801.60 --> 2802.54]  that
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+[2808.34 --> 2808.52]  of
+[2808.52 --> 2808.70]  the
+[2808.70 --> 2809.24]  talking
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+[2810.36 --> 2810.92]  time
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+[2812.38 --> 2812.74]  daughter
+[2812.74 --> 2813.52]  Nora
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+[2815.32 --> 2815.44]  I
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+[2816.52 --> 2816.66]  you
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+[2817.74 --> 2818.30]  for
+[2818.30 --> 2818.46]  you
+[2818.46 --> 2818.62]  to
+[2818.62 --> 2818.92]  obey
+[2818.92 --> 2820.16]  she
+[2820.16 --> 2820.38]  didn't
+[2820.38 --> 2820.60]  really
+[2820.60 --> 2820.84]  know
+[2820.84 --> 2821.06]  she
+[2821.06 --> 2821.28]  was
+[2821.28 --> 2821.82]  five
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+[2821.96 --> 2822.18]  six
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+[2822.34 --> 2822.54]  old
+[2822.54 --> 2822.66]  at
+[2822.66 --> 2823.00]  time
+[2823.00 --> 2824.44]  but
+[2824.44 --> 2825.00]  I
+[2825.00 --> 2825.32]  told
+[2825.32 --> 2825.60]  her
+[2825.60 --> 2825.86]  that
+[2825.86 --> 2826.36]  we
+[2826.36 --> 2826.70]  have
+[2826.70 --> 2827.28]  rules
+[2827.28 --> 2827.72]  because
+[2827.72 --> 2827.98]  we
+[2827.98 --> 2828.28]  want
+[2828.28 --> 2828.64]  you
+[2828.64 --> 2828.88]  to
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+[2829.80 --> 2830.28]  safe
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+[2831.34 --> 2831.70]  told
+[2831.70 --> 2831.98]  her
+[2831.98 --> 2832.22]  that
+[2832.22 --> 2833.04]  obedience
+[2833.04 --> 2833.62]  was
+[2833.62 --> 2833.88]  for
+[2833.88 --> 2834.10]  her
+[2834.10 --> 2834.62]  joy
+[2834.62 --> 2835.06]  that
+[2835.06 --> 2835.40]  life
+[2835.40 --> 2835.60]  would
+[2835.60 --> 2835.76]  be
+[2835.76 --> 2836.08]  better
+[2836.08 --> 2836.30]  if
+[2836.30 --> 2836.46]  she
+[2836.46 --> 2836.74]  lived
+[2836.74 --> 2836.92]  the
+[2836.92 --> 2837.14]  way
+[2837.14 --> 2837.32]  that
+[2837.32 --> 2837.46]  we
+[2837.46 --> 2837.62]  have
+[2837.62 --> 2837.96]  set
+[2837.96 --> 2838.26]  out
+[2838.26 --> 2838.68]  to
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+[2838.92 --> 2839.20]  not
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+[2839.56 --> 2839.80]  then
+[2839.80 --> 2840.02]  she
+[2840.02 --> 2840.30]  wouldn't
+[2840.30 --> 2840.48]  be
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+[2841.06 --> 2841.48]  but
+[2841.48 --> 2841.82]  because
+[2841.82 --> 2842.02]  in
+[2842.02 --> 2842.62]  obedience
+[2842.62 --> 2842.90]  is
+[2842.90 --> 2843.18]  true
+[2843.18 --> 2843.70]  freedom
+[2843.70 --> 2844.08]  right
+[2844.08 --> 2844.98]  obeying
+[2844.98 --> 2845.46]  brings
+[2845.46 --> 2845.66]  an
+[2845.66 --> 2846.34]  experience
+[2846.34 --> 2846.62]  of
+[2846.62 --> 2847.04]  joy
+[2847.04 --> 2848.70]  now
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+[2849.68 --> 2849.88]  didn't
+[2849.88 --> 2850.10]  get
+[2850.10 --> 2850.36]  all
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+[2850.50 --> 2850.76]  that
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+[2851.28 --> 2851.44]  and
+[2851.44 --> 2851.56]  it's
+[2851.56 --> 2851.72]  not
+[2851.72 --> 2851.86]  that
+[2851.86 --> 2852.08]  she's
+[2852.08 --> 2852.26]  now
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+[2853.48 --> 2853.86]  and
+[2853.86 --> 2854.46]  sanctified
+[2854.46 --> 2854.68]  of
+[2854.68 --> 2854.90]  course
+[2854.90 --> 2855.22]  not
+[2855.22 --> 2855.82]  but
+[2855.82 --> 2856.00]  we
+[2856.00 --> 2856.28]  did
+[2856.28 --> 2856.74]  begin
+[2856.74 --> 2857.04]  to
+[2857.04 --> 2858.08]  reframe
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+[2859.08 --> 2859.24]  little
+[2859.24 --> 2859.56]  bit
+[2859.56 --> 2860.22]  right
+[2860.22 --> 2860.38]  we
+[2860.38 --> 2860.62]  did
+[2860.62 --> 2861.10]  begin
+[2861.10 --> 2861.36]  to
+[2861.36 --> 2861.92]  connect
+[2861.92 --> 2862.74]  obedience
+[2862.74 --> 2863.26]  to
+[2863.26 --> 2863.82]  her
+[2863.82 --> 2864.24]  joy
+[2864.24 --> 2865.98]  but
+[2865.98 --> 2866.18]  even
+[2866.18 --> 2866.54]  more
+[2866.54 --> 2866.76]  than
+[2866.76 --> 2867.16]  that
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+[2868.36 --> 2868.56]  her
+[2868.56 --> 2869.28]  parents
+[2869.28 --> 2870.04]  we
+[2870.04 --> 2870.44]  are
+[2870.44 --> 2870.90]  setting
+[2870.90 --> 2871.18]  the
+[2871.18 --> 2871.72]  context
+[2871.72 --> 2871.92]  for
+[2871.92 --> 2872.08]  how
+[2872.08 --> 2872.36]  she
+[2872.36 --> 2872.62]  will
+[2872.62 --> 2873.28]  experience
+[2873.28 --> 2873.90]  God
+[2873.90 --> 2874.38]  in
+[2874.38 --> 2874.62]  her
+[2874.62 --> 2875.06]  life
+[2875.06 --> 2875.46]  and
+[2875.46 --> 2875.62]  how
+[2875.62 --> 2875.82]  she
+[2875.82 --> 2876.02]  will
+[2876.02 --> 2876.54]  experience
+[2876.54 --> 2876.82]  his
+[2876.82 --> 2877.28]  call
+[2877.28 --> 2877.74]  to
+[2877.74 --> 2878.22]  holiness
+[2878.22 --> 2878.58]  in
+[2878.58 --> 2878.80]  her
+[2878.80 --> 2879.22]  life
+[2879.22 --> 2880.82]  and
+[2880.82 --> 2881.10]  so
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+[2881.48 --> 2881.96]  we
+[2881.96 --> 2882.18]  are
+[2882.18 --> 2882.72]  setting
+[2882.72 --> 2882.94]  the
+[2882.94 --> 2883.38]  context
+[2883.38 --> 2883.56]  for
+[2883.56 --> 2883.72]  her
+[2883.72 --> 2884.26]  experience
+[2884.26 --> 2884.46]  of
+[2884.46 --> 2884.72]  God
+[2884.72 --> 2884.94]  it's
+[2884.94 --> 2885.12]  not
+[2885.12 --> 2885.42]  just
+[2885.42 --> 2886.08]  about
+[2886.08 --> 2887.38]  what
+[2887.38 --> 2887.62]  we
+[2887.62 --> 2888.02]  say
+[2888.02 --> 2888.24]  but
+[2888.24 --> 2888.56]  also
+[2888.56 --> 2888.94]  how
+[2888.94 --> 2889.18]  we
+[2889.18 --> 2889.46]  say
+[2889.46 --> 2889.68]  it
+[2889.68 --> 2891.12]  and
+[2891.12 --> 2891.28]  as
+[2891.28 --> 2891.48]  Nora
+[2891.48 --> 2891.70]  and I
+[2891.70 --> 2892.12]  talked
+[2892.12 --> 2892.44]  in that
+[2892.44 --> 2892.68]  moment
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+[2892.86 --> 2893.08]  made
+[2893.08 --> 2893.38]  sure
+[2893.38 --> 2893.62]  to
+[2893.62 --> 2894.36]  get
+[2894.36 --> 2894.94]  down
+[2894.94 --> 2895.38]  right
+[2895.38 --> 2895.60]  in
+[2895.60 --> 2895.78]  front
+[2895.78 --> 2895.90]  of
+[2895.90 --> 2896.04]  her
+[2896.04 --> 2896.34]  on
+[2896.34 --> 2896.96]  my
+[2896.96 --> 2897.28]  knees
+[2897.28 --> 2897.48]  to
+[2897.48 --> 2897.72]  look
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+[2897.86 --> 2898.00]  in
+[2898.00 --> 2898.14]  the
+[2898.14 --> 2898.50]  eyes
+[2898.50 --> 2898.68]  and
+[2898.68 --> 2898.82]  to
+[2898.82 --> 2899.12]  pour
+[2899.12 --> 2899.38]  as
+[2899.38 --> 2899.60]  much
+[2899.60 --> 2900.14]  love
+[2900.14 --> 2900.44]  and
+[2900.44 --> 2900.88]  joy
+[2900.88 --> 2901.34]  and
+[2901.34 --> 2901.76]  hope
+[2901.76 --> 2902.10]  into
+[2902.10 --> 2902.36]  my
+[2902.36 --> 2902.58]  own
+[2902.58 --> 2902.92]  eyes
+[2902.92 --> 2903.42]  even
+[2903.42 --> 2903.64]  through
+[2903.64 --> 2903.82]  my
+[2903.82 --> 2903.98]  own
+[2903.98 --> 2904.26]  tears
+[2904.26 --> 2904.40]  in
+[2904.40 --> 2904.52]  that
+[2904.52 --> 2904.70]  moment
+[2904.70 --> 2904.96]  as
+[2904.96 --> 2905.08]  I
+[2905.08 --> 2905.28]  could
+[2905.28 --> 2905.68]  so
+[2905.68 --> 2905.84]  that
+[2905.84 --> 2906.12]  even
+[2906.12 --> 2906.46]  as
+[2906.46 --> 2906.60]  I
+[2906.60 --> 2906.72]  am
+[2906.72 --> 2906.98]  teaching
+[2906.98 --> 2907.16]  her
+[2907.16 --> 2907.52]  even
+[2907.52 --> 2907.84]  as
+[2907.84 --> 2908.00]  she
+[2908.00 --> 2908.20]  is
+[2908.20 --> 2908.76]  denying
+[2908.76 --> 2909.30]  me
+[2909.30 --> 2909.78]  by
+[2909.78 --> 2910.00]  her
+[2910.00 --> 2910.60]  lifestyle
+[2910.60 --> 2911.16]  the
+[2911.16 --> 2911.48]  love
+[2911.48 --> 2911.66]  that
+[2911.66 --> 2911.84]  I
+[2911.84 --> 2912.16]  have
+[2912.16 --> 2912.38]  for
+[2912.38 --> 2912.66]  her
+[2912.66 --> 2912.88]  as
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+[2913.06 --> 2913.40]  father
+[2913.40 --> 2913.92]  courses
+[2913.92 --> 2914.30]  out
+[2914.30 --> 2914.46]  of
+[2914.46 --> 2914.66]  me
+[2914.66 --> 2915.02]  and
+[2915.02 --> 2916.06]  pierces
+[2916.06 --> 2916.68]  into
+[2916.68 --> 2916.96]  her
+[2916.96 --> 2917.30]  heart
+[2917.30 --> 2920.60]  the
+[2920.60 --> 2920.84]  Lord
+[2920.84 --> 2921.34]  turned
+[2921.34 --> 2922.34]  and
+[2922.34 --> 2922.60]  looked
+[2922.60 --> 2923.10]  straight
+[2923.10 --> 2924.24]  at
+[2924.24 --> 2924.54]  Peter
+[2924.54 --> 2926.74]  he
+[2926.74 --> 2927.00]  loved
+[2927.00 --> 2927.32]  him
+[2927.32 --> 2930.42]  here's
+[2930.42 --> 2930.54]  the
+[2930.54 --> 2930.80]  thing
+[2930.80 --> 2932.40]  no
+[2932.40 --> 2932.56]  matter
+[2932.56 --> 2932.82]  how
+[2932.82 --> 2933.04]  many
+[2933.04 --> 2933.52]  times
+[2933.52 --> 2933.76]  you
+[2933.76 --> 2933.96]  have
+[2933.96 --> 2934.42]  denied
+[2934.42 --> 2935.04]  Jesus
+[2935.04 --> 2937.76]  he
+[2937.76 --> 2938.04]  loves
+[2938.04 --> 2938.34]  you
+[2938.34 --> 2939.74]  no
+[2939.74 --> 2939.84]  matter
+[2939.84 --> 2939.98]  how
+[2939.98 --> 2940.12]  many
+[2940.12 --> 2940.50]  times
+[2940.50 --> 2940.68]  you
+[2940.68 --> 2940.86]  have
+[2940.86 --> 2941.70]  rejected
+[2941.70 --> 2942.52]  Jesus
+[2942.52 --> 2943.28]  by grace
+[2943.28 --> 2943.54]  through
+[2943.54 --> 2943.94]  faith
+[2943.94 --> 2944.48]  you
+[2944.48 --> 2944.78]  will
+[2944.78 --> 2945.12]  never
+[2945.12 --> 2945.56]  be
+[2945.56 --> 2946.20]  rejected
+[2946.20 --> 2947.34]  if
+[2947.34 --> 2947.54]  you
+[2947.54 --> 2947.94]  believe
+[2947.94 --> 2948.12]  if
+[2948.12 --> 2948.22]  you
+[2948.22 --> 2948.36]  are
+[2948.36 --> 2948.70]  truly
+[2948.70 --> 2948.88]  a
+[2948.88 --> 2949.24]  disciple
+[2949.24 --> 2949.42]  of
+[2949.42 --> 2949.62]  Jesus
+[2949.62 --> 2949.88]  you
+[2949.88 --> 2950.06]  will
+[2950.06 --> 2950.42]  never
+[2950.42 --> 2950.78]  be
+[2950.78 --> 2951.36]  rejected
+[2951.36 --> 2952.00]  by
+[2952.00 --> 2952.18]  him
+[2952.18 --> 2952.56]  that's
+[2952.56 --> 2952.74]  the
+[2952.74 --> 2953.22]  gospel
+[2953.22 --> 2954.06]  that
+[2954.06 --> 2954.50]  Jesus
+[2954.50 --> 2954.96]  was
+[2954.96 --> 2955.62]  rejected
+[2955.62 --> 2955.92]  so
+[2955.92 --> 2956.10]  that
+[2956.10 --> 2956.46]  I
+[2956.46 --> 2956.88]  would
+[2956.88 --> 2957.22]  never
+[2957.22 --> 2957.58]  be
+[2957.58 --> 2959.30]  how
+[2959.30 --> 2959.68]  great
+[2959.68 --> 2959.88]  the
+[2959.88 --> 2960.28]  pain
+[2960.28 --> 2960.48]  of
+[2960.48 --> 2960.96]  searing
+[2960.96 --> 2961.42]  loss
+[2961.42 --> 2961.64]  the
+[2961.64 --> 2962.02]  father
+[2962.02 --> 2962.56]  turns
+[2962.56 --> 2962.84]  his
+[2962.84 --> 2963.22]  face
+[2963.22 --> 2963.58]  away
+[2963.58 --> 2964.26]  as
+[2964.26 --> 2964.74]  wounds
+[2964.74 --> 2965.04]  which
+[2965.04 --> 2965.42]  mar
+[2965.42 --> 2965.66]  the
+[2965.66 --> 2966.02]  chosen
+[2966.02 --> 2966.42]  one
+[2966.42 --> 2966.78]  bring
+[2966.78 --> 2967.14]  many
+[2967.14 --> 2968.00]  sons
+[2968.00 --> 2969.04]  glory
+[2969.04 --> 2969.56]  no
+[2969.56 --> 2969.70]  matter
+[2969.70 --> 2969.94]  how
+[2969.94 --> 2970.18]  many
+[2970.18 --> 2970.68]  times
+[2970.68 --> 2970.88]  we
+[2970.88 --> 2971.00]  have
+[2971.00 --> 2971.36]  denied
+[2971.36 --> 2971.96]  Jesus
+[2971.96 --> 2972.26]  in
+[2972.26 --> 2972.42]  the
+[2972.42 --> 2972.86]  past
+[2972.86 --> 2973.10]  he
+[2973.10 --> 2973.30]  will
+[2973.30 --> 2973.74]  never
+[2973.74 --> 2974.30]  deny
+[2974.30 --> 2975.08]  us
+[2975.08 --> 2975.56]  once
+[2975.56 --> 2975.94]  Jesus
+[2975.94 --> 2976.34]  looks
+[2976.34 --> 2976.54]  at
+[2976.54 --> 2976.76]  you
+[2976.76 --> 2977.02]  and
+[2977.02 --> 2977.32]  loves
+[2977.32 --> 2977.48]  you
+[2977.48 --> 2977.70]  once
+[2977.70 --> 2977.86]  he
+[2977.86 --> 2978.10]  gives
+[2978.10 --> 2978.24]  you
+[2978.24 --> 2978.40]  a
+[2978.40 --> 2978.60]  new
+[2978.60 --> 2978.98]  name
+[2978.98 --> 2979.18]  as
+[2979.18 --> 2979.32]  a
+[2979.32 --> 2979.62]  child
+[2979.62 --> 2979.82]  of
+[2979.82 --> 2980.04]  God
+[2980.04 --> 2980.34]  he
+[2980.34 --> 2980.50]  will
+[2980.50 --> 2980.76]  never
+[2980.76 --> 2981.14]  leave
+[2981.14 --> 2981.36]  you
+[2981.36 --> 2981.76]  or
+[2981.76 --> 2982.20]  forsake
+[2982.20 --> 2982.46]  you
+[2982.46 --> 2983.14]  if
+[2983.14 --> 2983.38]  you
+[2983.38 --> 2983.60]  are
+[2983.60 --> 2984.22]  faithless
+[2984.22 --> 2984.48]  he
+[2984.48 --> 2984.94]  remains
+[2984.94 --> 2985.32]  faithful
+[2985.32 --> 2985.54]  for
+[2985.54 --> 2985.68]  he
+[2985.68 --> 2986.06]  cannot
+[2986.06 --> 2986.54]  disown
+[2986.54 --> 2987.22]  himself
+[2987.22 --> 2987.44]  I
+[2987.44 --> 2987.62]  think
+[2987.62 --> 2987.80]  those
+[2987.80 --> 2987.88]  are
+[2987.88 --> 2988.06]  some
+[2988.06 --> 2988.14]  of
+[2988.14 --> 2988.22]  the
+[2988.22 --> 2988.34]  most
+[2988.34 --> 2988.76]  beautiful
+[2988.76 --> 2989.22]  words
+[2989.22 --> 2989.36]  in
+[2989.36 --> 2989.58]  all
+[2989.58 --> 2989.70]  of
+[2989.70 --> 2989.82]  the
+[2997.14 --> 3000.14]  now
+[3000.14 --> 3000.34]  remember
+[3000.34 --> 3000.58]  that
+[3000.58 --> 3001.38]  thought
+[3001.38 --> 3001.62]  that I
+[3001.62 --> 3001.74]  asked
+[3001.74 --> 3001.80]  you
+[3001.80 --> 3001.92]  to
+[3001.92 --> 3002.20]  park
+[3002.20 --> 3002.96]  for
+[3002.96 --> 3003.06]  a
+[3003.06 --> 3003.28]  moment
+[3003.28 --> 3004.22]  right
+[3004.22 --> 3004.36]  we
+[3004.36 --> 3004.62]  asked
+[3004.62 --> 3004.80]  what
+[3004.80 --> 3004.96]  does
+[3004.96 --> 3005.10]  this
+[3005.10 --> 3005.28]  mean
+[3005.28 --> 3005.46]  for
+[3005.46 --> 3005.70]  your
+[3005.70 --> 3006.12]  suffering
+[3006.12 --> 3006.32]  for
+[3006.32 --> 3006.54]  your
+[3006.54 --> 3006.86]  trials
+[3006.86 --> 3007.04]  for
+[3007.04 --> 3007.26]  picking
+[3007.26 --> 3007.46]  up
+[3007.46 --> 3007.66]  your
+[3007.66 --> 3008.08]  cross
+[3008.08 --> 3008.24]  right
+[3008.24 --> 3008.74]  if
+[3008.74 --> 3009.12]  your
+[3009.12 --> 3009.70]  obedience
+[3009.70 --> 3010.00]  to
+[3010.00 --> 3010.12]  the
+[3010.12 --> 3010.30]  will
+[3010.30 --> 3010.48]  of
+[3010.48 --> 3010.76]  God
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+[3011.18 --> 3011.64]  trial
+[3011.64 --> 3011.86]  and
+[3011.86 --> 3012.26]  hardship
+[3012.26 --> 3012.54]  and
+[3012.54 --> 3012.84]  struggle
+[3012.84 --> 3013.10]  you
+[3013.10 --> 3013.32]  can
+[3013.32 --> 3013.80]  proceed
+[3013.80 --> 3014.24]  through
+[3014.24 --> 3014.48]  it
+[3014.48 --> 3014.94]  because
+[3014.94 --> 3015.10]  of
+[3015.10 --> 3015.24]  the
+[3015.24 --> 3015.50]  same
+[3015.50 --> 3015.86]  joy
+[3015.86 --> 3016.18]  that's
+[3016.18 --> 3016.32]  set
+[3016.32 --> 3016.62]  before
+[3016.62 --> 3016.98]  you
+[3016.98 --> 3017.58]  right
+[3017.58 --> 3017.76]  let's
+[3017.76 --> 3018.22]  pull
+[3018.22 --> 3018.36]  on
+[3018.36 --> 3018.52]  that
+[3018.52 --> 3018.84]  now
+[3018.84 --> 3019.78]  because
+[3019.78 --> 3019.96]  you
+[3019.96 --> 3020.24]  see
+[3020.24 --> 3021.64]  it's
+[3021.64 --> 3021.86]  not
+[3021.86 --> 3022.40]  ultimately
+[3022.40 --> 3023.02]  about
+[3023.02 --> 3023.68]  your
+[3023.68 --> 3024.34]  obedience
+[3024.34 --> 3025.64]  it's
+[3025.64 --> 3025.86]  about
+[3025.86 --> 3026.28]  Jesus
+[3026.28 --> 3026.84]  who
+[3026.84 --> 3027.02]  was
+[3027.02 --> 3027.50]  obedient
+[3027.50 --> 3028.44]  for
+[3028.44 --> 3028.70]  you
+[3028.70 --> 3029.10]  it's
+[3029.10 --> 3029.30]  about
+[3029.30 --> 3029.78]  Jesus
+[3029.78 --> 3030.30]  who
+[3030.30 --> 3030.50]  was
+[3030.50 --> 3030.94]  truly
+[3030.94 --> 3031.46]  rejected
+[3031.46 --> 3031.70]  so
+[3031.70 --> 3031.84]  that
+[3031.84 --> 3032.02]  we
+[3032.02 --> 3032.48]  never
+[3032.48 --> 3032.96]  would
+[3032.96 --> 3033.16]  be
+[3033.16 --> 3033.38]  it's
+[3033.38 --> 3033.60]  about
+[3033.60 --> 3034.02]  Jesus
+[3034.02 --> 3034.40]  who
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+[3035.00 --> 3035.52]  we
+[3035.52 --> 3035.82]  are
+[3035.82 --> 3036.32]  hapless
+[3036.32 --> 3036.68]  and
+[3036.68 --> 3037.08]  helpless
+[3037.08 --> 3037.72]  makes
+[3037.72 --> 3037.98]  us
+[3037.98 --> 3038.52]  hopeful
+[3038.52 --> 3039.08]  because
+[3039.08 --> 3039.46]  he
+[3039.46 --> 3040.04]  accomplished
+[3040.04 --> 3040.32]  what
+[3040.32 --> 3040.58]  we
+[3040.58 --> 3041.82]  couldn't
+[3041.82 --> 3042.08]  and
+[3042.08 --> 3042.46]  so
+[3042.46 --> 3043.30]  now
+[3043.30 --> 3043.94]  as
+[3043.94 --> 3044.22]  you
+[3044.22 --> 3044.62]  live
+[3044.62 --> 3044.86]  for
+[3044.86 --> 3045.12]  him
+[3045.12 --> 3045.40]  as
+[3045.40 --> 3045.56]  you
+[3045.56 --> 3046.02]  live
+[3046.02 --> 3046.28]  out
+[3046.28 --> 3046.42]  of
+[3046.42 --> 3046.96]  obedience
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+[3047.80 --> 3047.98]  of
+[3047.98 --> 3048.14]  him
+[3048.14 --> 3048.26]  and
+[3048.26 --> 3048.70]  obedience
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+[3049.36 --> 3049.72]  for
+[3049.72 --> 3050.60]  strived
+[3050.60 --> 3050.86]  after
+[3050.86 --> 3051.26]  for
+[3051.26 --> 3051.48]  him
+[3051.48 --> 3052.04]  you
+[3052.04 --> 3052.62]  too
+[3052.62 --> 3053.20]  we
+[3053.20 --> 3053.78]  all
+[3053.78 --> 3054.14]  in
+[3054.14 --> 3054.28]  the
+[3054.28 --> 3054.48]  midst
+[3054.48 --> 3054.62]  of
+[3054.62 --> 3054.96]  trial
+[3054.96 --> 3055.20]  and
+[3055.20 --> 3055.54]  struggle
+[3055.54 --> 3055.72]  in
+[3055.72 --> 3055.88]  the
+[3055.88 --> 3056.12]  midst
+[3056.12 --> 3056.32]  of
+[3056.32 --> 3056.56]  whatever
+[3056.56 --> 3057.08]  cross
+[3057.08 --> 3057.30]  that
+[3057.30 --> 3057.42]  we
+[3057.42 --> 3057.56]  are
+[3057.56 --> 3057.90]  called
+[3057.90 --> 3058.18]  to
+[3058.18 --> 3058.54]  bear
+[3058.54 --> 3059.06]  you
+[3059.06 --> 3059.30]  can
+[3059.30 --> 3059.72]  endure
+[3059.72 --> 3060.00]  for
+[3060.00 --> 3060.18]  the
+[3060.18 --> 3060.56]  joy
+[3060.56 --> 3061.10]  set
+[3061.10 --> 3061.58]  before
+[3061.58 --> 3062.34]  you
+[3062.34 --> 3062.82]  and
+[3062.82 --> 3063.02]  that
+[3063.02 --> 3063.50]  joy
+[3063.50 --> 3063.82]  is
+[3063.82 --> 3064.38]  Jesus
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+[3065.22 --> 3065.86]  lived
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+[3066.62 --> 3067.44]  him
+[3067.44 --> 3069.96]  the
+[3069.96 --> 3070.20]  joy
+[3070.20 --> 3070.42]  is
+[3070.42 --> 3071.00]  Jesus
+[3071.00 --> 3072.42]  who
+[3072.42 --> 3073.22]  understands
+[3073.22 --> 3074.00]  your
+[3074.00 --> 3074.58]  rejection
+[3074.58 --> 3076.38]  Jesus
+[3076.38 --> 3076.64]  who
+[3076.64 --> 3077.20]  knows
+[3077.20 --> 3077.74]  your
+[3077.74 --> 3078.20]  pain
+[3078.20 --> 3078.96]  Jesus
+[3078.96 --> 3079.28]  who
+[3079.28 --> 3079.66]  knows
+[3079.66 --> 3079.84]  your
+[3079.84 --> 3080.26]  trial
+[3080.26 --> 3080.64]  Jesus
+[3080.64 --> 3080.92]  who
+[3080.92 --> 3081.34]  knows
+[3081.34 --> 3081.52]  your
+[3081.52 --> 3082.06]  temptation
+[3082.06 --> 3082.76]  Jesus
+[3082.76 --> 3083.04]  who
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+[3084.24 --> 3084.62]  victory
+[3084.62 --> 3084.90]  and
+[3084.90 --> 3085.18]  now
+[3085.18 --> 3085.52]  gives
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+[3086.00 --> 3086.88]  victory
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+[3090.36 --> 3090.58]  are
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+[3093.06 --> 3093.80]  my
+[3093.80 --> 3094.28]  story
+[3094.28 --> 3094.68]  Peter's
+[3094.68 --> 3094.92]  story
+[3094.92 --> 3095.10]  is
+[3095.10 --> 3095.72]  our
+[3095.72 --> 3096.32]  story
+[3096.32 --> 3096.72]  and
+[3096.72 --> 3096.98]  that
+[3096.98 --> 3097.48]  means
+[3097.48 --> 3098.16]  that
+[3098.16 --> 3098.54]  means
+[3098.54 --> 3098.76]  that
+[3098.76 --> 3099.20]  maybe
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+[3099.76 --> 3100.42]  purpose
+[3100.42 --> 3100.72]  of
+[3100.72 --> 3101.22]  Peter's
+[3101.22 --> 3101.88]  story
+[3101.88 --> 3102.16]  can
+[3102.16 --> 3102.46]  also
+[3102.46 --> 3102.70]  be
+[3102.70 --> 3102.90]  the
+[3102.90 --> 3103.42]  purpose
+[3103.42 --> 3103.72]  of
+[3103.72 --> 3104.88]  our
+[3104.88 --> 3105.86]  story
+[3105.86 --> 3108.26]  since
+[3108.26 --> 3108.62]  God
+[3108.62 --> 3109.06]  used
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+[3109.80 --> 3110.64]  story
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+[3110.96 --> 3111.20]  using
+[3111.20 --> 3111.38]  it
+[3111.38 --> 3111.60]  right
+[3111.60 --> 3111.96]  now
+[3111.96 --> 3112.44]  he
+[3112.44 --> 3112.64]  can
+[3112.64 --> 3113.00]  also
+[3113.00 --> 3113.46]  use
+[3113.46 --> 3113.98]  your
+[3113.98 --> 3115.14]  story
+[3115.14 --> 3117.14]  we
+[3117.14 --> 3117.32]  didn't
+[3117.32 --> 3117.52]  read
+[3117.52 --> 3117.72]  it
+[3117.72 --> 3118.64]  but I
+[3118.64 --> 3118.98]  mentioned
+[3118.98 --> 3119.30]  the
+[3119.30 --> 3119.84]  timeline
+[3119.84 --> 3120.24]  and
+[3120.24 --> 3120.48]  Jesus
+[3120.48 --> 3121.06]  prediction
+[3121.06 --> 3121.80]  that
+[3121.80 --> 3122.04]  Peter
+[3122.04 --> 3122.24]  would
+[3122.24 --> 3122.54]  deny
+[3122.54 --> 3122.78]  him
+[3122.78 --> 3123.78]  you
+[3123.78 --> 3123.90]  have
+[3123.90 --> 3124.02]  your
+[3124.02 --> 3124.34]  Bibles
+[3124.34 --> 3124.56]  you
+[3124.56 --> 3124.68]  can
+[3124.68 --> 3124.86]  see
+[3124.86 --> 3124.98]  it
+[3124.98 --> 3125.10]  in
+[3125.10 --> 3125.32]  verse
+[3125.32 --> 3126.42]  32
+[3126.42 --> 3126.78]  there
+[3126.78 --> 3127.80]  notice
+[3127.80 --> 3128.00]  what
+[3128.00 --> 3128.22]  Jesus
+[3128.22 --> 3128.60]  says
+[3128.60 --> 3128.80]  to
+[3128.80 --> 3129.08]  Peter
+[3129.08 --> 3129.68]  what
+[3129.68 --> 3129.92]  Jesus
+[3129.92 --> 3130.18]  is
+[3130.18 --> 3130.44]  saying
+[3130.44 --> 3130.64]  to
+[3130.64 --> 3130.98]  you
+[3130.98 --> 3131.54]  now
+[3131.54 --> 3133.00]  I
+[3133.00 --> 3133.22]  have
+[3133.22 --> 3133.54]  prayed
+[3133.54 --> 3133.80]  for
+[3133.80 --> 3134.14]  you
+[3134.14 --> 3134.82]  Simon
+[3134.82 --> 3135.90]  that
+[3135.90 --> 3136.08]  your
+[3136.08 --> 3136.50]  faith
+[3136.50 --> 3136.80]  may
+[3136.80 --> 3137.18]  not
+[3137.18 --> 3137.74]  fail
+[3137.74 --> 3139.42]  and
+[3139.42 --> 3139.68]  when
+[3139.68 --> 3139.88]  you
+[3139.88 --> 3140.10]  have
+[3140.10 --> 3140.50]  turned
+[3140.50 --> 3141.10]  back
+[3141.10 --> 3142.70]  strengthen
+[3142.70 --> 3144.04]  your
+[3144.04 --> 3144.48]  brothers
+[3144.48 --> 3147.24]  Jesus
+[3147.24 --> 3148.02]  is
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+[3149.22 --> 3150.30]  side
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+[3151.14 --> 3151.52]  prayed
+[3151.52 --> 3151.80]  for
+[3151.80 --> 3152.04]  him
+[3152.04 --> 3153.30]  Jesus
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+[3153.66 --> 3153.88]  on
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+[3154.42 --> 3154.86]  side
+[3154.86 --> 3155.12]  he's
+[3155.12 --> 3156.04]  interceding
+[3156.04 --> 3156.22]  for
+[3156.22 --> 3156.42]  you
+[3156.42 --> 3156.80]  even
+[3156.80 --> 3157.16]  now
+[3157.16 --> 3157.82]  Jesus
+[3157.82 --> 3158.38]  knew
+[3158.38 --> 3158.74]  that
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+[3160.52 --> 3160.90]  knew
+[3160.90 --> 3161.12]  that
+[3161.12 --> 3161.46]  Peter
+[3161.46 --> 3161.90]  would
+[3161.90 --> 3162.26]  deny
+[3162.26 --> 3162.52]  him
+[3162.52 --> 3162.88]  Jesus
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+[3163.94 --> 3164.42]  will
+[3164.42 --> 3164.84]  fail
+[3164.84 --> 3165.16]  Jesus
+[3165.16 --> 3165.56]  knows
+[3165.56 --> 3165.76]  that
+[3165.76 --> 3166.08]  you
+[3166.08 --> 3166.54]  will
+[3166.54 --> 3166.90]  deny
+[3166.90 --> 3167.18]  him
+[3167.18 --> 3167.74]  but
+[3167.74 --> 3168.32]  when
+[3168.32 --> 3168.58]  you
+[3168.58 --> 3168.92]  have
+[3168.92 --> 3169.30]  turned
+[3169.30 --> 3169.86]  back
+[3169.86 --> 3170.82]  strengthen
+[3170.82 --> 3171.54]  your
+[3171.54 --> 3171.92]  brothers
+[3171.92 --> 3172.48]  and
+[3172.48 --> 3172.86]  sisters
+[3172.86 --> 3173.38]  when
+[3173.38 --> 3173.60]  you
+[3173.60 --> 3173.76]  are
+[3173.76 --> 3174.38]  restored
+[3174.38 --> 3174.86]  use
+[3174.86 --> 3175.00]  it
+[3175.00 --> 3175.18]  to
+[3175.18 --> 3175.74]  restore
+[3175.74 --> 3176.34]  others
+[3176.34 --> 3176.64]  when
+[3176.64 --> 3176.84]  you
+[3176.84 --> 3177.12]  see
+[3177.12 --> 3177.36]  my
+[3177.36 --> 3177.74]  love
+[3177.74 --> 3178.08]  use
+[3178.08 --> 3178.22]  it
+[3178.22 --> 3178.40]  to
+[3178.40 --> 3178.68]  love
+[3178.68 --> 3179.28]  others
+[3179.28 --> 3179.58]  when
+[3179.58 --> 3179.76]  you
+[3179.76 --> 3179.92]  are
+[3179.92 --> 3180.32]  forgiven
+[3180.32 --> 3180.72]  use
+[3180.72 --> 3180.86]  it
+[3180.86 --> 3181.02]  to
+[3181.02 --> 3181.58]  forgive
+[3181.58 --> 3182.20]  others
+[3182.20 --> 3182.50]  when
+[3182.50 --> 3182.68]  you
+[3182.68 --> 3182.84]  are
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+[3183.20 --> 3183.52]  use
+[3183.52 --> 3183.64]  it
+[3183.64 --> 3183.78]  to
+[3183.78 --> 3184.06]  heal
+[3184.06 --> 3184.62]  others
+[3184.62 --> 3184.90]  when
+[3184.90 --> 3185.10]  you
+[3185.10 --> 3185.46]  find
+[3185.46 --> 3185.84]  me
+[3185.84 --> 3186.42]  use
+[3186.42 --> 3186.54]  it
+[3186.54 --> 3186.74]  to
+[3186.74 --> 3187.16]  lead
+[3190.90 --> 3191.36]  your
+[3191.36 --> 3192.02]  stories
+[3192.02 --> 3192.54]  of
+[3192.54 --> 3193.06]  denial
+[3193.06 --> 3193.70]  and
+[3193.70 --> 3194.46]  restoration
+[3194.46 --> 3195.16]  can
+[3195.16 --> 3195.56]  change
+[3195.56 --> 3196.06]  lives
+[3196.06 --> 3197.36]  your
+[3197.36 --> 3197.98]  stories
+[3197.98 --> 3198.18]  of
+[3198.18 --> 3198.66]  rejecting
+[3198.66 --> 3199.28]  Jesus
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+[3199.54 --> 3199.86]  finding
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+[3200.14 --> 3200.42]  love
+[3200.42 --> 3200.72]  again
+[3200.72 --> 3201.12]  can
+[3201.12 --> 3201.58]  save
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+[3202.10 --> 3204.00]  I
+[3204.00 --> 3204.24]  once
+[3204.24 --> 3204.46]  was
+[3204.46 --> 3204.90]  lost
+[3204.90 --> 3205.16]  but
+[3205.16 --> 3205.44]  now
+[3205.44 --> 3205.66]  am
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+[3206.16 --> 3206.42]  once
+[3206.42 --> 3206.66]  was
+[3206.66 --> 3207.10]  blind
+[3207.10 --> 3207.32]  but
+[3207.32 --> 3207.60]  now
+[3207.60 --> 3207.84]  I
+[3207.84 --> 3208.08]  see
+[3208.08 --> 3208.68]  your
+[3208.68 --> 3209.34]  stories
+[3209.34 --> 3209.54]  of
+[3209.54 --> 3209.74]  being
+[3209.74 --> 3210.22]  moved
+[3210.22 --> 3210.48]  from
+[3210.48 --> 3211.04]  darkness
+[3211.04 --> 3211.86]  into
+[3211.86 --> 3212.28]  light
+[3212.28 --> 3212.96]  brings
+[3212.96 --> 3213.52]  others
+[3213.52 --> 3214.20]  into
+[3214.20 --> 3215.12]  light
+[3215.12 --> 3215.90]  your
+[3215.90 --> 3216.58]  stories
+[3216.58 --> 3216.82]  of
+[3216.82 --> 3217.62]  marriages
+[3217.62 --> 3218.10]  worked
+[3218.10 --> 3218.34]  on
+[3218.34 --> 3218.56]  and
+[3218.56 --> 3218.92]  healed
+[3218.92 --> 3219.68]  inspire
+[3219.68 --> 3220.32]  others
+[3220.32 --> 3220.78]  to
+[3220.78 --> 3221.08]  work
+[3221.08 --> 3221.32]  on
+[3221.32 --> 3221.46]  and
+[3221.46 --> 3221.60]  to
+[3221.60 --> 3221.98]  heal
+[3221.98 --> 3222.46]  their
+[3222.46 --> 3222.90]  marriages
+[3222.90 --> 3223.44]  your
+[3223.44 --> 3224.02]  stories
+[3224.02 --> 3224.24]  of
+[3224.24 --> 3224.72]  addictions
+[3224.72 --> 3225.42]  overcome
+[3225.42 --> 3226.08]  strengthen
+[3226.08 --> 3226.88]  others
+[3226.88 --> 3227.50]  in their
+[3227.50 --> 3227.88]  journey
+[3227.88 --> 3228.24]  to
+[3228.24 --> 3228.64]  overcome
+[3228.64 --> 3228.98]  your
+[3228.98 --> 3229.50]  story
+[3229.50 --> 3229.72]  of
+[3229.72 --> 3230.02]  faith
+[3230.02 --> 3230.84]  transformed
+[3230.84 --> 3231.10]  and
+[3231.10 --> 3231.44]  grown
+[3231.44 --> 3231.98]  leads
+[3231.98 --> 3232.46]  others
+[3232.46 --> 3233.04]  to be
+[3233.04 --> 3233.60]  transformed
+[3233.60 --> 3233.88]  and
+[3233.88 --> 3234.24]  grown
+[3234.24 --> 3236.46]  the
+[3236.46 --> 3236.76]  story
+[3236.76 --> 3237.32]  matters
+[3237.32 --> 3239.64]  and the
+[3239.64 --> 3239.82]  story
+[3239.82 --> 3240.20]  matters
+[3240.20 --> 3240.66]  because
+[3240.66 --> 3241.64]  through
+[3241.64 --> 3242.26]  the right
+[3242.26 --> 3242.92]  lens
+[3242.92 --> 3243.48]  it is
+[3243.48 --> 3244.44]  the gospel
+[3244.44 --> 3245.10]  story
+[3245.10 --> 3246.28]  first revealed
+[3246.28 --> 3247.36]  in Jesus
+[3247.36 --> 3248.28]  once again
+[3248.28 --> 3249.30]  enfleshed
+[3249.30 --> 3249.56]  in
+[3249.56 --> 3250.06]  your
+[3250.06 --> 3251.06]  life
+[3251.06 --> 3253.50]  God
+[3253.50 --> 3254.00]  himself
+[3254.00 --> 3255.08]  the
+[3255.08 --> 3255.42]  eternal
+[3255.42 --> 3255.82]  second
+[3255.82 --> 3256.26]  person
+[3256.26 --> 3256.52]  of the
+[3256.52 --> 3256.76]  trinity
+[3256.76 --> 3257.16]  took
+[3257.16 --> 3257.44]  on
+[3257.44 --> 3258.00]  flesh
+[3258.00 --> 3258.56]  in
+[3258.56 --> 3258.88]  Jesus
+[3258.88 --> 3259.14]  and
+[3259.14 --> 3259.34]  was
+[3259.34 --> 3260.08]  despised
+[3260.08 --> 3260.28]  and
+[3260.28 --> 3260.74]  rejected
+[3260.74 --> 3260.98]  by
+[3260.98 --> 3262.90]  you
+[3262.90 --> 3264.98]  and
+[3264.98 --> 3265.24]  your
+[3265.24 --> 3265.90]  stories
+[3265.90 --> 3267.24]  can
+[3267.24 --> 3267.90]  incarnate
+[3267.90 --> 3268.12]  the
+[3268.12 --> 3268.64]  gospel
+[3268.64 --> 3269.52]  message
+[3269.52 --> 3270.12]  in how
+[3270.12 --> 3270.70]  you live
+[3270.70 --> 3271.16]  your
+[3271.16 --> 3272.00]  life
+[3272.00 --> 3273.46]  so tell
+[3273.46 --> 3274.04]  your story
+[3274.04 --> 3275.28]  tell the
+[3275.28 --> 3275.72]  story of
+[3275.72 --> 3275.92]  God
+[3275.92 --> 3276.54]  in you
+[3276.54 --> 3277.18]  and with
+[3277.18 --> 3277.32]  you
+[3277.32 --> 3277.70]  tell the
+[3277.70 --> 3278.10]  story of
+[3278.10 --> 3278.34]  Jesus
+[3278.34 --> 3279.08]  restoring
+[3279.08 --> 3279.38]  you
+[3279.38 --> 3279.98]  tell the
+[3279.98 --> 3280.38]  story
+[3280.38 --> 3280.58]  to
+[3280.58 --> 3280.76]  your
+[3280.76 --> 3281.12]  neighbors
+[3281.12 --> 3281.40]  and to
+[3281.40 --> 3281.58]  your
+[3281.58 --> 3282.02]  colleagues
+[3282.02 --> 3282.30]  and to
+[3282.30 --> 3282.46]  your
+[3282.46 --> 3282.86]  kids
+[3282.86 --> 3284.34]  if you
+[3284.34 --> 3284.90]  are in
+[3284.90 --> 3285.26]  small
+[3285.26 --> 3285.56]  groups
+[3285.56 --> 3285.76]  here
+[3285.76 --> 3286.06]  care
+[3286.06 --> 3286.36]  groups
+[3286.36 --> 3286.66]  or whatever
+[3286.66 --> 3287.20]  other small
+[3287.20 --> 3287.62]  group at
+[3287.62 --> 3288.24]  Emmanuel you
+[3288.24 --> 3288.56]  might be
+[3288.56 --> 3289.38]  in spend
+[3289.38 --> 3289.90]  a few
+[3289.90 --> 3290.70]  weeks telling
+[3290.70 --> 3291.38]  your faith
+[3291.38 --> 3292.08]  stories to
+[3292.08 --> 3292.56]  each other
+[3292.56 --> 3293.50]  and how
+[3293.50 --> 3293.90]  have you
+[3293.90 --> 3294.70]  seen God
+[3294.70 --> 3295.60]  at work
+[3295.60 --> 3296.04]  in your
+[3296.04 --> 3296.66]  life during
+[3296.66 --> 3297.36]  this season
+[3297.36 --> 3298.24]  telling the
+[3298.24 --> 3298.94]  story of
+[3298.94 --> 3299.96]  tell the story
+[3299.96 --> 3300.22]  of your
+[3300.22 --> 3301.10]  faith and
+[3301.10 --> 3301.52]  the story
+[3301.52 --> 3301.76]  of your
+[3301.76 --> 3302.04]  journey
+[3302.04 --> 3302.76]  with Jesus
+[3302.76 --> 3304.66]  listen to
+[3304.66 --> 3305.42]  the kids
+[3305.42 --> 3305.96]  and the young
+[3305.96 --> 3306.50]  people who are
+[3306.50 --> 3306.96]  telling their
+[3306.96 --> 3307.70]  stories over on
+[3307.70 --> 3308.18]  real talk
+[3308.18 --> 3308.58]  with Pastor
+[3308.58 --> 3308.94]  Kevin
+[3308.94 --> 3310.04]  tell the
+[3310.04 --> 3310.60]  story of
+[3310.60 --> 3311.26]  Jesus the
+[3311.26 --> 3311.68]  rejected
+[3311.68 --> 3312.70]  and watch
+[3312.70 --> 3313.54]  as God
+[3313.54 --> 3314.48]  gets all
+[3314.48 --> 3315.06]  the glory
+[3315.06 --> 3316.58]  and as God
+[3316.58 --> 3317.86]  gets all
+[3317.86 --> 3318.44]  the glory
+[3318.44 --> 3319.44]  your joy
+[3319.44 --> 3320.54]  will be
+[3320.54 --> 3321.18]  filled
+[3321.18 --> 3323.80]  it was for
+[3323.80 --> 3324.20]  the joy
+[3324.20 --> 3325.02]  set before
+[3325.02 --> 3325.52]  him that
+[3325.52 --> 3325.98]  Jesus
+[3325.98 --> 3326.76]  endured
+[3326.76 --> 3327.90]  the cross
+[3327.90 --> 3329.28]  you
+[3329.28 --> 3331.44]  you are
+[3331.44 --> 3332.10]  the joy
+[3332.10 --> 3332.80]  of Jesus
+[3332.80 --> 3333.60]  as God
+[3333.60 --> 3334.76]  is glorified
+[3334.76 --> 3335.86]  in your
+[3335.86 --> 3336.54]  story
+[3336.54 --> 3337.40]  and through
+[3337.40 --> 3337.78]  you
+[3337.78 --> 3338.58]  and by
+[3338.58 --> 3338.92]  you
+[3338.92 --> 3340.40]  this
+[3340.40 --> 3341.32]  the power
+[3341.32 --> 3342.48]  of the
+[3342.48 --> 3342.92]  cross
+[3342.92 --> 3343.96]  that Christ
+[3343.96 --> 3345.22]  became sin
+[3345.22 --> 3346.14]  for us
+[3346.14 --> 3346.92]  took the
+[3346.92 --> 3347.32]  blame
+[3347.32 --> 3348.06]  bore the
+[3348.06 --> 3348.46]  wrath
+[3348.46 --> 3349.32]  we
+[3349.32 --> 3350.46]  stand
+[3350.46 --> 3351.34]  forgiven
+[3351.34 --> 3353.02]  at
+[3353.02 --> 3354.18]  the cross
+[3354.18 --> 3355.92]  amen
+[3355.92 --> 3358.02]  amen
+[3358.12 --> 3364.88]  in
+[3364.88 --> 3375.22]  most
+[3375.22 --> 3376.00]  in
+[3376.00 --> 3376.48]  could
+[3376.54 --> 3383.80]  act
+[3383.80 --> 3385.42]  it
+[3385.42 --> 3406.26]  Oh, to see the dawn of the darkest day
+[3406.26 --> 3413.34]  Christ on the road to Galilee
+[3413.34 --> 3418.68]  Tried by sinful men
+[3418.68 --> 3422.34]  Torn and beaten men
+[3423.06 --> 3428.34]  Veiled to a cross above
+[3428.34 --> 3438.48]  This the power of the cross
+[3438.48 --> 3446.82]  Christ became sin for us
+[3446.82 --> 3450.48]  Took the blame
+[3451.04 --> 3455.48]  For the rank we stand
+[3455.48 --> 3460.82]  Forgiven at the cross
+[3460.82 --> 3479.16]  Oh, to see the pain
+[3479.16 --> 3484.08]  Written on your face
+[3484.08 --> 3492.16]  Bearing the awesome weight of sin
+[3492.16 --> 3496.50]  Every bitter thought
+[3496.50 --> 3500.84]  Every evil deed
+[3500.84 --> 3504.84]  Crowding your blood
+[3504.84 --> 3507.50]  Stained proud
+[3507.50 --> 3516.84]  Is the power of the cross
+[3516.84 --> 3525.84]  Christ became sin for us
+[3525.84 --> 3531.18]  Took the blame
+[3531.18 --> 3535.98]  For the rank we stand
+[3535.98 --> 3541.18]  Forgiven at the cross
+[3541.18 --> 3546.52]  Now the daylight gleams
+[3546.52 --> 3552.52]  Now the ground beneath
+[3552.52 --> 3558.52]  Quakes as its pain
+[3558.52 --> 3571.86]  Quakes as its pain
+[3571.86 --> 3574.86]  Quakes as its pain
+[3574.86 --> 3580.20]  Curtain torn in two
+[3580.20 --> 3586.20]  Dead or raised to the light
+[3586.20 --> 3592.20]  Finish the victory cry
+[3592.20 --> 3603.54]  Christ is the power of the cross
+[3603.54 --> 3604.88]  Christ became sin for us
+[3604.88 --> 3609.88]  Christ became sin for us
+[3609.88 --> 3611.22]  In war
+[3611.22 --> 3614.22]  To the grave
+[3614.22 --> 3618.22]  To the grave
+[3618.22 --> 3623.22]  For the rank we stand
+[3623.22 --> 3628.22]  Forgiven at the cross
+[3628.22 --> 3651.56]  O to see my name
+[3651.56 --> 3656.56]  Written in the wounds
+[3656.56 --> 3661.90]  For through your suffering
+[3661.90 --> 3666.50]  I am free
+[3666.50 --> 3672.42]  Death is crushed to death
+[3672.42 --> 3677.48]  Life is mine to live
+[3677.48 --> 3682.30]  Run through your sadness
+[3682.30 --> 3686.24]  It's the power of the cross
+[3686.24 --> 3696.24]  It's the power of the cross
+[3696.24 --> 3701.24]  Christ be God
+[3701.24 --> 3707.24]  Safe for us
+[3707.24 --> 3713.18]  What a love
+[3713.18 --> 3714.18]  What a love
+[3714.18 --> 3716.44]  What a cost
+[3716.44 --> 3718.18]  We stand
+[3718.18 --> 3724.22]  Forgiven at the cross
+[3724.22 --> 3734.08]  I am free
+[3734.08 --> 3735.50]  customer
+[3735.50 --> 3737.16]  Jesse
+[3737.16 --> 3738.18]  It's the power of the cross
+[3738.18 --> 3739.16]  Their dalüp
+[3739.16 --> 3739.66]  aus dung
+[3739.66 --> 3740.02]  The 不是
+[3740.02 --> 3740.62]  à Moderat
+[3740.62 --> 3753.98]  Of으�
+[3753.98 --> 3783.96]  Thank you.
+[3783.98 --> 3813.96]  Thank you.
+[3813.98 --> 3821.36]  The Father turns His face away
+[3821.36 --> 3827.90]  As moons which are the chosen one
+[3827.90 --> 3833.30]  With many sons to glory
+[3833.30 --> 3851.42]  Behold the man upon a cross
+[3851.42 --> 3857.30]  I see upon His shoulders
+[3857.30 --> 3864.60]  Ashamed I hear my mocking voice
+[3864.60 --> 3870.74]  Fall out on the scoffers
+[3870.74 --> 3877.08]  He was the sin that held Him there
+[3877.08 --> 3882.74]  Until it was accomplished
+[3882.74 --> 3890.26]  His time has brought me life
+[3890.26 --> 3895.84]  I know that it is finished
+[3895.84 --> 3913.22]  I will not boast in anything
+[3913.22 --> 3919.40]  No gifts, no power, no wisdom
+[3919.40 --> 3927.14]  But I will boast in Jesus Christ
+[3927.14 --> 3932.48]  His death and resurrection
+[3932.48 --> 3939.86]  Why should I gain from His reward
+[3939.86 --> 3946.20]  I cannot give an answer
+[3946.20 --> 3953.58]  But this I know with all my heart
+[3953.58 --> 3958.72]  His wounds have paid my grandson
+[3958.72 --> 3965.88]  Why should I gain from His reward
+[3965.88 --> 3972.66]  I cannot give an answer
+[3972.66 --> 3980.96]  But this I know with all my heart
+[3980.96 --> 3987.46]  These wounds have made my last song
+[3995.88 --> 4008.62]  It was now about noon.
+[4009.76 --> 4014.30]  Darkness came over the whole land until three in the afternoon.
+[4015.58 --> 4017.94]  The sun stopped shining.
+[4018.82 --> 4021.14]  And the curtain in the temple was torn in two.
+[4021.54 --> 4023.44]  And Jesus called out in a loud voice,
+[4023.44 --> 4027.32]  Father, into your hands I commit my spirit.
+[4028.44 --> 4032.32]  And when he had said this, he breathed his last.

Hearers and Doers (Sermon)_summary.txt

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+• The importance of responding to God's word
+• The story of a young boy who learned not just to hear but also to respond to his father's warning
+• James 1:19-27, emphasizing the need to be quick to listen and slow to speak or become angry
+• The difference between hearing and responding to God's word
+• The call to live differently, rather than following a checklist of dos and don'ts
+• The three parts of the text in James 1:19-27: receive, respond, and resolve (or accept, act, and abide)
+• Accepting God's word and the importance of listening
+• The dangers of anger and its impact on spiritual growth
+• James' emphasis on putting off evil, including wrath, to receive God's word
+• The need to respond to received knowledge with action and obedience
+• Faith and deeds are inseparable, and faith must lead to obedient actions
+• The importance of faith and action in relation to God's word
+• James' analogy of looking into a mirror to illustrate the need for obedience and repentance
+• The concept of God's law as a perfect law of liberty that frees us through Christ's life, death, and resurrection
+• The distinction between being blessed by our deeds vs. being blessed in our deeds as a result of faith in Christ
+• The role of confession and repentance in response to God's calling
+• The connection between faith and action, with the latter not saving us but rather a response to God's grace
+• The importance of abiding in God's word rather than just responding occasionally
+• Warning against checklist theology and the dangers of vain religion
+• Tradition vs traditionalism: importance of living out faith with grace and mercy
+• Importance of keeping oneself from being polluted by the world
+• Influence of Western culture as a fast-moving current that can sweep people away from living like Christ followers
+• Need to root ourselves in Scripture's narrative and equip ourselves to push back against cultural currents
+• The speaker thanks God for the gospel and the truth of Jesus Christ
+• The importance of accepting the Word and living according to it
+• The need to act on faith and respond to God's call
+• The desire to abide in the truth and make it a new reality in life
+• A prayer request for the Holy Spirit to work in hearts to live out this truth

Hearers and Doers (Sermon)_transcript.txt

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+[0.00 --> 5.94]  I bet you some of you thought that little care groups plug was going to be my sermon today,
+[6.04 --> 11.64]  but it's not. There's more. So thank you for joining us as we open up the word today.
+[11.92 --> 17.42]  When I was four years old or so, I went to the bank with my dad. It was in Edmonton,
+[17.42 --> 21.92]  and it was in the middle of the winter. Now, I don't remember how cold it was,
+[22.38 --> 27.82]  but Edmonton in the wintertime is not the French Riviera. It was cold enough that my dad,
+[27.82 --> 32.40]  as wise as he is, he wanted to make sure that I didn't do anything dumb.
+[33.36 --> 36.56]  And so we got out of the car, and my dad grabbed my shoulders, and he looked me in the eye. He's like,
+[36.60 --> 44.22]  Kevin, don't lick the poles. Now, looking back, I understand how good this advice was.
+[44.38 --> 50.30]  At the time, though, that stop sign post sure looked like a cream soda-flavored Icy Pop.
+[51.28 --> 54.88]  And now I was motivated by the urge to lick something, and I thought, well,
+[54.88 --> 61.38]  what's the worst that could happen? So my dad turned his back. Now, sometimes hearing something
+[61.38 --> 69.24]  isn't enough. We need to respond. So it turns out, in what I can only assume was negative 45-degree
+[69.24 --> 76.04]  weather, your tongue sticks to posts faster than you can say, Dad, watch this. I instantly regretted it,
+[76.46 --> 82.10]  and I should have listened. Well, my dad, as heroic as he is, he said, Son, I'm going to run inside
+[82.10 --> 87.06]  that building. I'll be gone for a second. I'm going to get some water. Don't move. I'll be right back.
+[87.40 --> 94.00]  Your tongue will come off that post. Don't move. Now, again, in the midst of a crisis, it's amazing
+[94.00 --> 100.46]  what you hear and what is actually said. Now, somehow, my dad saying, don't move. I'll be right
+[100.46 --> 106.22]  back. You're going to be okay. It must have sounded like, son, rip your tongue off that pole. Do it with
+[106.22 --> 112.20]  vigor. Don't let the taste of blood stop you. And so I pulled, and I twisted, and I ripped,
+[112.60 --> 118.04]  and off my tongue came. Well, most of it anyways. About three centimeters got left behind.
+[119.44 --> 127.34]  My tongue is still a little shorter to this day. The point is, we can hear. We can maybe even
+[127.34 --> 135.66]  understand. But if we don't respond, it really doesn't do us any good. Today, we're continuing
+[135.66 --> 142.62]  our sermon series through James, and today's text is about responding. Now, not only will we hear today
+[142.62 --> 147.96]  our monthly memory verse, which is exciting, we're also going to hear the name of this sermon series.
+[148.32 --> 154.56]  So we're going to look at the last section of this first chapter of James, so the final nine verses
+[154.56 --> 159.32]  of James 1. So please, at home, here today as well, pull out your Bibles, pull out your notebooks,
+[159.50 --> 166.54]  your pens, anything else that you need to nestle into this text and read along with me. James 1,
+[167.04 --> 176.00]  19 to 27, reads like this. My dear brothers and sisters, take note of this. Everyone should be quick
+[176.00 --> 184.28]  to listen, slow to speak, and slow to become angry, because human anger does not produce the righteousness
+[184.28 --> 192.08]  that God desires. Therefore, get rid of all moral filth and the evil that is so prevalent,
+[192.68 --> 200.52]  and humbly accept the word planted in you, which can save you. Do not merely listen to the word,
+[200.60 --> 206.16]  and so deceive yourselves. Do what it says. Anyone who listens to the word but does not do what it says
+[206.16 --> 212.78]  is like someone who looks at his face in a mirror, and after looking at himself, goes away,
+[212.78 --> 219.30]  and immediately forgets what he looks like. But whoever looks intently into the perfect law that
+[219.30 --> 225.22]  gives freedom and continues in it, not forgetting what they've heard but doing it, they will be
+[225.22 --> 231.24]  blessed in what they do. Those who consider themselves religious and yet do not keep a tight
+[231.24 --> 238.66]  rein on their tongue deceives themselves, and their religion is worthless. Religion that God our Father
+[238.66 --> 247.24]  accepts as pure and faultless is this, to look after orphans and widows in their distress, and to keep
+[247.24 --> 257.10]  oneself from being polluted from this world. The word of God today. Now like Pastor Chris said
+[257.10 --> 263.58]  throughout this series, he said this numerous times, James can sometimes come across as a book
+[263.58 --> 269.94]  with a lot of do's and a lot of don'ts, and it becomes easy for us to hear a passage like this
+[269.94 --> 276.26]  and feel a little bogged down perhaps with what James is saying. The truth is though, it's quite the
+[276.26 --> 282.88]  opposite. God is not calling us to live our lives operating off of some monumental checklist, keeping
+[282.88 --> 289.64]  track of the deeds we do and the sins that we commit. This is not a book about calling us to do more,
+[289.64 --> 297.38]  but rather it's a book about calling us to live differently. James is a book of response, and
+[297.38 --> 303.98]  today's passage is that message. We're called to respond to the word of God. Like I learned when I
+[303.98 --> 311.04]  dislodged a piece of my tongue at the ripe old age of four, responding is vital. Not just hearing,
+[311.68 --> 319.06]  not simply acknowledging what we hear, but doing something about it. James helps us figure out how to do that.
+[319.64 --> 325.14]  So this is what we're going to walk through today. God calls us to live a new way of life,
+[325.14 --> 332.14]  but we cannot do that if we do not respond to God's word, and we cannot respond to God's word
+[332.14 --> 340.08]  unless we hear and listen to what he says. This is precisely how this text today breaks down. There are
+[340.08 --> 348.04]  three chunks to this text, and each part works through this pattern of receive, respond, and resolve,
+[348.04 --> 355.30]  or if you like A words, accept, act, and abide. So let's look at each one of these paragraphs separately,
+[355.52 --> 360.46]  and we'll see how they move from accepting to responding to then transforming.
+[362.30 --> 366.22]  All right, the first chunk first, because that's what makes sense. James 1, 19 to 21,
+[366.32 --> 370.94]  my dear brothers and sisters, take note of this. Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak,
+[371.00 --> 376.14]  and slow to become angry, because human anger does not produce the righteousness that God desires.
+[376.14 --> 383.06]  Therefore, get rid of all moral filth and the evil that is so prevalent, and humbly accept the word
+[383.06 --> 391.54]  planted in you which can save you. See that verse 21? We are to humbly accept the word planted in us
+[391.54 --> 398.66]  which can save us. This paragraph is about accepting the word. We must be quick to listen
+[398.66 --> 404.58]  so that we can accept the word of God that has been planted in us to save us. However, we can't
+[404.58 --> 410.38]  accept that word if we're not listening. He says we are to be quick to listen, and I mean, that makes sense.
+[411.04 --> 414.72]  We can't accept what we don't hear. If we don't listen, we don't understand.
+[414.72 --> 424.20]  It's interesting how he also says, though, be slow to speak, and be slow to become angry.
+[426.38 --> 430.96]  We humans, we can be so good at talking, can't we? We love to be heard, and if you're like me,
+[431.22 --> 436.14]  you've got this loud, obnoxious voice that can fill a room, and you like to talk.
+[436.14 --> 445.38]  Unfortunately, it's really hard to listen when you're so busy talking. Just ask my daughters.
+[447.32 --> 452.32]  The author of Ecclesiastes, most likely Solomon, he knew this too when he wrote,
+[452.62 --> 459.80]  the words of the wise heard in silence are better than the shouting of a ruler among fools.
+[459.80 --> 469.12]  We think of our culture where we are constantly distracted. We fill our lives up with noise,
+[469.82 --> 473.60]  where solitude is hard, perhaps even impossible to find.
+[475.78 --> 483.44]  Most of us can afford to be slower to speak, perhaps even be silent.
+[483.44 --> 493.46]  Anger, too, it has a way of making us unable to listen. When we get angry or we get frustrated
+[493.46 --> 498.56]  with others, it easily makes us stubborn and even prideful. Rather than listening in love,
+[498.78 --> 505.22]  when we are disagreeing with each other, anger can boil up. That's why in 1 Corinthians 13,
+[505.34 --> 507.88]  when Paul is going over what love is, he says,
+[507.88 --> 513.68]  love does not insist on its own way. It is not irritable or resentful.
+[516.02 --> 520.46]  Now, while this is a calling for us to rid ourselves of all anger and angry expression
+[520.46 --> 525.72]  in our lives, there is room for feelings of anger, as long as it is righteous anger. However,
+[525.96 --> 530.20]  I don't want to lengthen that leash longer than it needs to be, because the reality is,
+[530.20 --> 540.28]  we are very, very, very seldom, seldomly, sorry, in a position where righteous anger is called for.
+[542.22 --> 549.56]  So while we do well to feel angry sometimes, most often we choose the wrong time.
+[551.56 --> 558.24]  James says, get rid of anger. Here he is. The reason James highlights anger so much is because
+[558.24 --> 565.06]  of the extreme negative impact it can have on God's calling for our lives. The call to be holy and
+[565.06 --> 571.62]  righteous. The call to live in community and love our neighbors. The call for truth and for love.
+[573.78 --> 578.48]  Henry Drummond, he speaks of this negative impact of anger so wonderfully in his book,
+[578.84 --> 580.62]  The Greatest Thing in the World. He writes this,
+[580.62 --> 590.10]  No form of vice, not worldliness, not greed of gold, not drunkenness itself, does more to
+[590.10 --> 599.02]  unchristianize society than evil temper. For embittering life, for breaking up communities,
+[599.44 --> 605.98]  for destroying the most sacred relationships, for devastating homes, for withering up men and
+[605.98 --> 616.62]  women, for taking the bloom off of childhood. In short, for sheer, gratuitous, misery-producing power.
+[618.06 --> 620.50]  This influence of anger stands alone.
+[623.44 --> 630.06]  Anger destroys. And to the point of this text today, if you have anger in your life towards someone,
+[630.06 --> 635.00]  someone that you know well or someone that you know poorly, it doesn't matter. James says,
+[635.12 --> 641.90]  if you are angry, you do not have the ability to accept God's word which saves us.
+[643.90 --> 650.72]  John Calvin says it too. He says, as long as wrath bears rule, there is no place for the righteousness of
+[650.72 --> 658.30]  God. So in order to fully receive the word, we must put off all types of evil, especially wrath.
+[658.30 --> 665.48]  Only then will we be able to accept Christ's word and have it fully implanted in our lives,
+[665.62 --> 668.02]  which saves our souls.
+[670.28 --> 676.52]  But, as the title of this sermon series says, we need to be more than simply just hearers.
+[677.14 --> 684.32]  We must be doers as well. Reception is only step one. We must now respond as well.
+[684.32 --> 687.72]  And the second chunk gets to that. Verse 22 to 25 says this.
+[688.08 --> 693.54]  Do not merely listen to the word, and so deceive yourselves. Do what it says.
+[694.58 --> 699.84]  Anyone who listens to the word but does not do what it says is like someone who looks at his face in a
+[699.84 --> 706.28]  mirror, and after looking at himself, goes away and immediately forgets what he looks like.
+[706.28 --> 711.88]  But whoever looks intently into the perfect law that gives freedom and continues in it,
+[712.00 --> 718.26]  not forgetting what they heard, but doing it, they will be blessed in what they do.
+[721.36 --> 725.92]  Now, sometimes people get in a bit of a huff because James calls us to do here, and then they
+[725.92 --> 730.56]  will counter by saying, well, hang on a second. The apostle Paul, he says faith alone saves.
+[730.56 --> 737.30]  So how can James say otherwise? But listen to what Paul says in Romans 2.13.
+[737.68 --> 742.48]  For it is not those who hear the law that are righteous in God's sight, but it is those who
+[742.48 --> 747.82]  obey the law who will be declared righteous. See, they aren't that different. Paul and James
+[747.82 --> 753.84]  aren't saying different things here. Listening must always lead to action, receiving to responding.
+[754.08 --> 760.10]  Faith must always lead to deeds. They go hand in hand. You cannot separate them. To have faith is to
+[760.10 --> 766.64]  obey. To obey is to have faith. Hearing is important, but it's not enough. We must respond.
+[767.16 --> 775.52]  We must be doers. This is so important. Sometimes we get stuck here. We get stuck, but it's not enough
+[775.52 --> 781.68]  to read the Bible. It's not enough to remember what it says or praise its contents or write down in our
+[781.68 --> 789.40]  journals to reflect on later again. All of that is good, but it's only good as phase one. It's only good
+[789.40 --> 804.34]  if we do what we hear. Faith saves. Faith without action, though, is just knowledge. And knowledge
+[804.34 --> 807.34]  without obedience is useless.
+[807.34 --> 816.32]  James uses the imagery of a person who looks in a mirror to highlight this point. And he says,
+[816.40 --> 820.44]  the one who hears the word but does not do what it says is like someone who looks at himself in a
+[820.44 --> 824.98]  mirror but instantly forgets what they look like. Now, perhaps that's a strange analogy to hear at
+[824.98 --> 832.08]  first, but it is a brilliant one. See, when we look into a mirror, we see our face. We see its reflection.
+[832.08 --> 838.66]  We see how God created us to look. But we also see the dirt and the muck and the mire.
+[840.40 --> 847.04]  It shows up as spots that need washing. If we look in the mirror and then go away and forget to wash off
+[847.04 --> 855.16]  the dirt, forgetting what we look like, what good was the mirror? But if we look at the mirror and we
+[855.16 --> 862.80]  remember where the dirt is, we can be clean. This is an analogy that's not about vanity and it's not
+[862.80 --> 870.76]  about self-admiration. It's a call to repentance. It's a call to confession. We listen to the word.
+[871.06 --> 875.58]  And when we do that, we will hear God's voice calling us to repent of the things that make us
+[875.58 --> 882.68]  sinful. Like our reflection in a mirror, God's word will bring to light the areas in our life
+[882.68 --> 888.58]  that we need to give back to God in repentance. If we listen to God's word,
+[889.90 --> 896.52]  and the dirt in our life gets revealed, but we do nothing about it. If we don't repent,
+[896.60 --> 901.30]  if we don't ask God to wash it away, what's good is hearing the word?
+[903.46 --> 910.72]  Our sins are the spots that the mirror of the word of God reveals. Only Christ's blood washes that sin
+[910.72 --> 915.68]  away. When we repent, we are cleansed. Our sin is washed. That is how we are to respond,
+[916.08 --> 921.82]  especially during this season of Lent. May we remember the cost of that sin. May we remember
+[921.82 --> 929.72]  the dirt on our face. May we remember what Ash Wednesday represents. And may we give it all to
+[929.72 --> 939.00]  Christ. James says that when we look intently into the perfect law that gives freedom,
+[940.00 --> 945.44]  that is when we are blessed in what we do. Now, I like what the ESV translation says here a little
+[945.44 --> 952.60]  bit better. That translation says, he who looks into the perfect law of liberty, he will be blessed in
+[952.60 --> 960.70]  his doing. I like to highlight two things about that little chunk. First is this. The law of liberty
+[960.70 --> 969.98]  is God's perfect law, which Christ came and fulfilled. Law and liberty, they kind of contradict each other
+[969.98 --> 976.30]  in our language, don't they? Law restricts us. It tells us the speed limits we're to drive, the places
+[976.30 --> 983.88]  we can and cannot go, the things we can and cannot do. But liberty, liberty frees us, allowing us to
+[983.88 --> 989.28]  break the chains of bondage. Everyone wants liberty. And while most of us understand laws and approve of
+[989.28 --> 995.62]  laws and see the good in laws, they are restricting. They restrict what we can do. Never has this been
+[995.62 --> 1000.00]  more prevalent to me than during this pandemic. Laws are restricting. And while we do our best to
+[1000.00 --> 1005.90]  abide by them and see the importance of them, then do we await the liberty where we can be free from
+[1005.90 --> 1013.42]  those restrictions? This is what's so beautiful about this passage and this language that James uses here.
+[1013.82 --> 1022.16]  God's law is the perfect law of liberty. By saying this, James highlights how God's law frees us.
+[1023.74 --> 1030.46]  We do not need to be free from the law. We are free because of the law. This is counterintuitive for
+[1030.46 --> 1037.00]  our culture. Jesus says, if you hold to my teachings, you are really my disciples.
+[1038.08 --> 1042.52]  Then you will know the truth and the truth will set you free.
+[1044.00 --> 1049.36]  If we hold to Jesus' teachings to love God and love your neighbor as yourself, the same law
+[1049.36 --> 1054.46]  that God gave Moses, we will know the truth and the truth will set us free.
+[1054.46 --> 1066.36]  The beauty of it all is that God's law liberates because God's Son is already liberated. Christ lived
+[1066.36 --> 1071.98]  a perfect life and then he died on the cross for us all. He fulfilled the law because his death
+[1071.98 --> 1078.88]  was ours to die. And then he rose again from the grave, defeating sin and death until he comes out,
+[1078.88 --> 1088.04]  comes once and for all for the perfect redemption of all the cosmos, where God gets eternal glory.
+[1089.26 --> 1095.12]  That is why our response is one of repentance and confession, because when we confess to the one
+[1095.12 --> 1105.60]  who has already saved, we are free. And when we respond to God's calling in love, to him and to others,
+[1105.60 --> 1114.56]  God's perfect law of liberty frees us through Christ's life, death and resurrection. Amen.
+[1115.76 --> 1119.54]  That's not the end of the sermon. That's just an amen moment. There's more. The second part of that line
+[1119.54 --> 1125.70]  is equally as beautiful. Our response in faith is one of repentance that frees us. And when we are free,
+[1125.70 --> 1135.52]  hear this, we are blessed in our doing. That little two-letter word is so important. Notice James does not say
+[1135.52 --> 1142.80]  we are blessed by our doing. We are not saved by what we do. We are only saved by faith in Christ.
+[1142.80 --> 1152.28]  We are not blessed by our deeds. What we are is blessed in our deeds. While our deeds do not save us,
+[1152.36 --> 1157.90]  and we are not blessed because we do them, we are blessed in doing them.
+[1159.48 --> 1164.80]  James is clear. It's not grace by works. It's grace by our perfect Savior, Jesus Christ. However, we are blessed
+[1164.80 --> 1170.86]  in the deeds we do as a response to that grace. It's beautiful language, and it's very important
+[1170.86 --> 1175.10]  to wrap our heads around here. There's going to be a lot more on this in future sermons, so I'm going
+[1175.10 --> 1180.26]  to leave it there. But buckle up for the future, but I hope that this lays a little bit of groundwork
+[1180.26 --> 1187.96]  there. So back to the framework of this text. First we receive the word, or accept it. Then we're called
+[1187.96 --> 1195.44]  to respond to the word, or act on it. And finally, James calls us all to resolve ourselves to a new
+[1195.44 --> 1204.20]  way of life, or to abide by God's word. This calling to abide, it's a bigger thing. Abiding is not simply
+[1204.20 --> 1210.74]  responding every now and then. We're not supposed to respond a certain number of times to appease God.
+[1210.74 --> 1217.70]  Again, that's checklist theology. We're called to abide by God's word. That means live in God's truth.
+[1218.04 --> 1227.04]  We accept, we respond as a way of life, not with a list of do's. The final two verses of our text get
+[1227.04 --> 1231.84]  to this point. We read it as follows. Those who consider themselves religious and yet do not keep
+[1231.84 --> 1237.98]  a tight rein on their tongue deceives themselves, and their religion is worthless. Religion that our God
+[1237.98 --> 1244.20]  the Father accepts as pure and faultless is this, to look after orphans and widows in their distress,
+[1244.48 --> 1247.22]  and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world.
+[1249.64 --> 1253.86]  Pastor Chris did an excellent job in his pastor study video this week, highlighting the importance
+[1253.86 --> 1260.34]  of tradition in the church. Tradition that's centered on Christ, on grace and mercy, and the right
+[1260.34 --> 1267.20]  following of Christ in his word is wonderful. In that video, Pastor Chris also does a great job of
+[1267.20 --> 1273.70]  speaking how sometimes traditions can turn into traditionalism. Traditions for the sake of
+[1273.70 --> 1279.48]  traditions, missing out on the grace and the mercy and the love. Traditionalism is not good,
+[1279.72 --> 1285.24]  and that's what James is speaking against here. See, we see throughout the Bible that ceremonies and
+[1285.24 --> 1292.34]  sacrifices are good things, so long as grace and love and mercy are present. But without grace, love,
+[1292.34 --> 1296.80]  and mercy, religion becomes vain. There are lots of passages in the Bible that speak against this.
+[1297.14 --> 1305.68]  Hosea 6, 6, Matthew 9, 13, Mark 12, 32 to 32, Luke 6, 36. Rewind, pause, write them down, look them up. We
+[1305.68 --> 1311.76]  don't have time today. They all talk about that. Religion is worthless if we do not do what God
+[1311.76 --> 1320.76]  requires of us. But what does the Lord require of you. All the gems everywhere stand and say in unison
+[1320.76 --> 1329.64]  to act justly and to love mercy and to walk humbly with your God. That is the life in which we are
+[1329.64 --> 1338.24]  called to live. Lives that we live where we act justly, where we love mercy, and where we walk humbly
+[1338.24 --> 1345.54]  with our God. Keeping ourselves from being polluted by this world is a little harder than we think,
+[1345.64 --> 1353.92]  though. You see, we're all influenced by a story, the Western story. Some of us are influenced in
+[1353.92 --> 1358.98]  different ways than others, but we're all caught in that story. We're all caught in that current.
+[1358.98 --> 1366.34]  I read this article by Jeremy Olim is his name, and he wrote about a time when he went to an
+[1366.34 --> 1371.06]  outdoors water park with his wife and his two sons, and after doing a bunch of the water slides, they
+[1371.06 --> 1375.60]  decided to relax a little bit, take a break from all the stairs, and they decided to grab a tube,
+[1376.04 --> 1381.32]  the inner tube each, and just go float in the lazy river. So they did that. It was very relaxing.
+[1381.44 --> 1387.20]  There was no effort, just lazily floating in this artificial current. Well, after a few minutes,
+[1387.20 --> 1391.22]  though his kids got bored and they wanted out, but when they tried to get out of this lazy river,
+[1391.74 --> 1396.88]  they realized how hard it was to find footing in the current. There was an exit, but they didn't get
+[1396.88 --> 1401.16]  off their tubes in time, and when they did get off their tubes, they couldn't find their footing. His
+[1401.16 --> 1407.32]  youngest son got pulled under the water. His oldest son got ripped down the current. His wife jumped off
+[1407.32 --> 1412.88]  her tube, but she couldn't stop it either, and it took Jeremy a lot of effort and a lot of time to gather
+[1412.88 --> 1420.48]  his kids and his wife and his footing and get out of the exit of that lazy river current. What seemed to
+[1420.48 --> 1429.54]  be this relaxing, slow-moving novelty was actually a very fast-moving current that they got stuck in.
+[1430.76 --> 1437.26]  Finding their footing and moving against it proved extremely difficult. Perhaps you know a story very
+[1437.26 --> 1444.12]  similar to that. Jeremy compared that story to living as Christ followers in the Western culture.
+[1445.80 --> 1452.26]  We are all part of the Western current, and it may not seem so bad. It may seem kind of
+[1453.20 --> 1459.28]  laissez-faire, but to go against it is a lot of work. There are many things in our culture that pull us
+[1459.28 --> 1465.02]  along, and if we're not careful or if we're not prepared to encounter those things, we can get swept
+[1465.02 --> 1473.24]  right up in the current. Jeremy says, loving our enemies seems like a fantasy in the current that
+[1473.24 --> 1481.28]  says defeat. Hospitality to the poor seems impossible in the current that says consume. Humility is rare
+[1481.28 --> 1488.88]  in a current that encourages bluster. Love that risks the safe and the rational is unimaginable in a
+[1488.88 --> 1497.72]  current that promises security. We must resolve ourselves to a new narrative. We must root ourselves
+[1497.72 --> 1503.60]  in the story of Scripture. We must keep ourselves from being polluted from this world. We must equip
+[1503.60 --> 1510.26]  ourselves with the tools of Scripture to push back against the current of our culture.
+[1512.76 --> 1518.00]  Fasting can help us fight the current of materialism. Generosity can help us fight the current of greed.
+[1518.00 --> 1523.72]  Community can help us fight the current of individualism. Prayer can help us fight the current of
+[1523.72 --> 1530.10]  rationalism. Silence can help us fight the current of gossip. Lament can help us fight the current of
+[1530.10 --> 1536.98]  apathy. When we abide by this calling, when we abide in God's story, not the Western story,
+[1537.84 --> 1543.20]  we resolve ourselves to this new, more glorious life in Christ.
+[1543.20 --> 1549.60]  Conclude with this. James is calling us all to resolve ourselves to this new way of life,
+[1549.60 --> 1558.04]  to this new posture of which we are to operate out of. But we are called to his holiness. We are called
+[1558.04 --> 1568.12]  to live righteous lives. We are called to accept God's Word and then act on God's Word and then fully
+[1568.12 --> 1578.96]  abide by God's Word. Then we start to shape our lives by God's story. Not our story, not the West's story.
+[1579.64 --> 1587.50]  Then we become both hearers, doers. Amen. For real, this time. Let's pray.
+[1587.50 --> 1599.92]  God, we thank you for your Word. We thank you for the gospel truth of your Son come down to earth
+[1599.92 --> 1608.82]  to live a perfect life, to die on the cross for our sins, who raised from the dead, defeating sin
+[1608.82 --> 1621.42]  and death forever. God, may we accept that Word. May we accept that truth. And Lord, may we not just
+[1621.42 --> 1627.74]  simply accept it, but may we act on it. May we go out and live as you call us to live, respond as you
+[1627.74 --> 1633.86]  call us to respond. And not only that, God, may we abide in that truth. May that not just be lists of
+[1633.86 --> 1641.48]  things to do and don't, but may that be the new reality in which you call us to live. Holy Spirit,
+[1641.60 --> 1649.80]  work in our hearts so we can live out this truth. We pray this in your Son's precious, holy name. Amen.

Humility Faith in Jesus as the Great Equalizer (Sermon)_summary.txt

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+• James 1:9-11 discussed, referencing humility in difficult circumstances
+• Pastor's acknowledgment of audio/video issues with previous message
+• Reflection on the cost of preaching about money and wealth
+• Invitation to consider living out one's faith through making it real
+• Discussion of being hearers and doers of God's word, including:
+  • Putting limits on biblical application
+  • Prioritizing personal interests over God's design
+  • Lacking humility in favor of securing power and status
+  • Reliance on human strength rather than the Holy Spirit
+• Imagining what it would be like to live out one's faith every day, including:
+  • Taking God at his word
+  • Loving neighbors as oneself
+  • Living out the story of the gospel
+• James discusses how a Christian's attitude towards money and wealth is a key point of conflict in living out their faith.
+• The Bible devotes significant attention to teaching about money, possessions, and attitudes towards wealth, with over 2000 verses on the topic.
+• Jesus' teachings emphasize the importance of considering what one loves and values, as it reveals what their heart is truly after.
+• James argues that how we view wealth and money is directly related to our understanding of what constitutes the "crown of life" (James 1:12).
+• The "crown of life" is a metaphor for the ultimate reward or prize of living out one's faith, drawing from ancient Greek and Roman athletic traditions.
+• James suggests that how we manage our finances and prioritize spending reveals what we truly love and value.
+• The concept of a "crown" representing one's priorities and values in life
+• The tension between competing crowns (e.g. success vs. relationships) and the need for them to align with faith
+• The importance of endurance through trials and tests of faith, with a crown that can withstand pressure
+• The reward of eternal blessedness with God as the ultimate crown of life
+• Living out one's faith in everyday life as an evangelist for something (either Jesus or the world)
+• The significance of wealth and status in relation to spirituality and faith, with James advocating for a leveling of social distinctions in the church.
+• Onesimus was a slave but Paul gave him his humanity back by calling him a brother in Christ
+• The gospel of Jesus levels the playing field and gives all people dignity and respect regardless of social status or wealth
+• Hermas, a Christian leader from the early church, was born as a slave and became a prominent figure despite his humble beginnings
+• Jesus' death and resurrection brought life to those who were dead in their sins and gave them new life in Christ
+• In the church, all people are equal and worthy of dignity and respect regardless of background or status
+• Material wealth and status are illusory and will fall away, but identity in Jesus Christ is what truly matters
+• Applying these principles to everyday life means treating all people with value and worth, regardless of their social status or wealth
+• The story of one's life reflects what is most valued
+• True faith shows itself in actions, not just words
+• Prioritizing wealth and status over God's vision can be a distraction
+• One's budget reveals their true priorities
+• Money and possessions should not take precedence over ministry and mission
+• Living for Jesus' glory brings joy and redemption

Humility Faith in Jesus as the Great Equalizer (Sermon)_transcript.txt

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+[0.00 --> 7.80]  in just a moment we are going to read together from James continuing in our teaching series
+[7.80 --> 12.68]  through that letter we're going to read verse 9 through 11 and so if you have a Bible I encourage
+[12.68 --> 18.30]  you to grab that or open it or turn it on whatever the case may be and have that with you as we go
+[18.30 --> 23.92]  through this text before we do that let me just say because people have been texting me already
+[23.92 --> 30.18]  I know that the video didn't work and we know that here as well there was an audio issue and so
+[30.18 --> 36.56]  instead of listening to three minutes of silence we will fix that and get the video out for everyone
+[36.56 --> 43.00]  next week and we'll make it happen there so thank you for your patience in that and I trust that you
+[43.00 --> 49.70]  also have James 1 open in front of you I'm going to read that just those three verses 9 through 11
+[53.92 --> 61.24]  the brother in humble circumstances ought to take pride in his position but the one who is rich
+[61.24 --> 68.54]  should take pride in his low position because he will pass away like a wild flower for the sun rises
+[68.54 --> 74.58]  with scorching heat and withers the plant its blossom falls and its beauty is destroyed
+[74.58 --> 83.34]  in the same way the rich man will fade even while he goes about his business this is the word of the
+[83.34 --> 94.76]  lord and so I want to begin this morning just by saying it's been a good ride I've been here just over
+[94.76 --> 101.04]  two months now and you guys have been incredible and encouraging and really supportive in the work
+[101.04 --> 110.20]  and for some of you today that ends and that ends because some of you are going to be upset about
+[110.20 --> 117.96]  what I'm about to say some of you will be challenged others will be exposed some of you will just
+[117.96 --> 123.48]  disregard it because what I'm saying is hitting too close to home and to your heart and you don't want
+[123.48 --> 129.94]  it to apply to you and I know that that is true because it is true every single time a pastor talks about
+[129.94 --> 130.82]  money
+[130.82 --> 135.62]  it's going to cost me something
+[135.62 --> 142.42]  to have this theological conversation with you about money
+[142.42 --> 152.42]  and I know that and to be honest and to understand where I'm coming from I'm really at root more
+[152.42 --> 155.16]  concerned with what it will cost me if I don't
+[155.16 --> 162.26]  right if I only preach what itching ears want to hear right it's going to cost me more in the long
+[162.26 --> 167.84]  run it'll cost me more with you and it will cost me more eternally as a teacher of the word of God
+[167.84 --> 175.06]  right I faithfully want to represent God's word and present it to you
+[175.06 --> 184.60]  and so if you get angry or perhaps when you get angry I get it and if you are convicted
+[184.60 --> 190.96]  to be honest I thank God for that and if you want to follow up with me call me on Tuesday
+[190.96 --> 197.46]  but know this in the midst of all of this I am preaching to myself first
+[197.46 --> 204.90]  God has been convicting me in this message all week long to the point where it was really hard
+[204.90 --> 210.22]  to write this message and at 9 20 this morning when Pastor Kevin came into the church and he said
+[210.22 --> 214.32]  what are you doing I said I'm trying to figure out how I'm going to cut this thing or change this thing
+[214.32 --> 220.54]  or make it right because I still haven't quite landed it and so I still haven't landed it I'm going
+[220.54 --> 222.86]  to land it with you live and we'll see what happens
+[222.86 --> 230.08]  what I'm saying in all of this really is that I'm kind of inviting you into what God has been
+[230.08 --> 236.98]  convicting me of and I pray that you get something out of it and that this conversation about money and
+[236.98 --> 245.12]  wealth and systems of wealth can be used by God to make our faith real
+[245.12 --> 255.02]  now in this series in James we are looking at what it means to be hearers and doers of the word of God
+[255.02 --> 262.92]  we are looking at how we can make it real right how do people who say they are Christians live
+[262.92 --> 269.92]  like what they say they believe is actually true right you get what I'm saying when I say that right
+[269.92 --> 276.62]  what would be different about your life if you actually lived what you say you believe
+[276.62 --> 284.22]  and so as Christians right for instance we say we believe that the Bible is true that the Bible is
+[284.22 --> 290.00]  authoritative and infallible but how good are we and maybe I should just speak personally how good am I
+[290.00 --> 297.66]  at putting limits on the scope of its application on creatively using hermeneutical gymnastics
+[297.66 --> 302.98]  to make these texts or other texts apply to other people but not to me
+[302.98 --> 311.12]  right as Christians we say we believe in God's plan for our lives that his design and his purpose
+[311.12 --> 320.56]  are actually the best way for us to live but how often do laziness or apathy or selfishness actually
+[320.56 --> 327.64]  get in the way of conforming our lives to God's creational structure and the redeemed direction he has
+[327.64 --> 336.90]  right we say that God's power is made perfect in weakness right that true greatness comes in the form of being a servant
+[336.90 --> 342.06]  but how many of us actually live to serve and love humility
+[342.06 --> 350.54]  instead are we not just so often and regularly caught up in the western story of securing our own power
+[350.54 --> 361.80]  and peace through status as kings and queens of our own domains right we believe that God has given us the Holy Spirit in power and purpose
+[361.80 --> 373.80]  but then we rely entirely on our own strength and our own prowess to get stuff done right our vision for what could be in our life and in our activities together
+[373.80 --> 380.80]  together become small and narrow and ultimately self-centered
+[380.80 --> 384.80]  because it is entirely self-directed
+[384.80 --> 387.80]  instead
+[387.80 --> 389.80]  imagine
+[389.80 --> 392.08]  what it might look like
+[392.08 --> 396.50]  if you were the kind of Christian who took God at his word
+[396.50 --> 398.50]  and then lived it every day
+[398.50 --> 408.50]  imagine what our church would look like if we actually lived the profession that perfect love drives out fear
+[408.50 --> 411.50]  imagine what your neighborhood or what
+[411.50 --> 417.76]  Muraville or what Langley or the Fraser Valley would look like if you really loved your neighbor as yourself
+[417.76 --> 421.76]  that's what being a hearer and doer does
+[421.76 --> 424.76]  that's how you make it real
+[424.76 --> 426.76]  and for James
+[426.76 --> 428.76]  in this letter
+[428.76 --> 442.76]  one of the first points of conflict between living out the story of the world or living out the story of the gospel of making our faith real is the language that we're using here of being here and do
+[442.76 --> 449.76]  one of those first points of conflict is all about a Christian's attitude towards money and wealth
+[449.76 --> 461.76]  it shouldn't surprise us right that James takes this up as the first point of conflict in the struggle to make it real
+[461.76 --> 465.76]  James is a brother of Jesus
+[465.76 --> 471.76]  James probably didn't become a disciple of Jesus until after the resurrection
+[471.76 --> 472.76]  but
+[472.76 --> 479.76]  he quickly emerges as a leader of the Christians in Jerusalem alongside of Peter and the apostles
+[479.76 --> 488.76]  right in Acts 15 when Paul comes to Jerusalem to talk to Peter and the apostles James is there as one of the leaders who speaks for the assembly and directs it
+[488.76 --> 501.76]  right it seems clear both from the stories in Acts but also here in the letter that he writes that James was a devout Jew beforehand and he knows the scriptures well as a devout Jew
+[501.76 --> 511.76]  and it seems clear that in addition to that he is very clear on the teachings of Jesus especially when it comes to money
+[511.76 --> 528.76]  so just to make this point abundantly clear in the gospels Jesus speaks 38 parables 16 of them are about money and possessions
+[528.76 --> 535.76]  in the gospels one out of every 10 verses deals directly with money
+[535.76 --> 550.76]  the Bible has 500 verses on prayer less than 500 verses on faith but more than 2000 verses about money and possessions
+[550.76 --> 559.76]  why is there so much talk about money and possession about wealth and our attitudes towards wealth and riches and poverty
+[559.76 --> 567.76]  it's because Jesus understands the tremendous influence that money and wealth have in our lives
+[567.76 --> 576.76]  right Jesus said for where your treasure is there your heart will be also and maybe it sounds trite but you love what you love
+[576.76 --> 586.76]  right and and you are what you love and you become like what you love and the problem that we face or the struggle that we face is that the world around us
+[586.76 --> 593.76]  and our sinful tendencies within us constantly prop up competing loves for our hearts to follow after
+[593.76 --> 610.76]  there's a study done a few years ago by the Barna group that found that 50 percent of Christians consider money to be the primary indicator of success
+[610.76 --> 617.76]  and I would guess that the other 50 percent were found to be liars
+[617.76 --> 627.76]  that same study found that 20 percent of Christians believe you can tell how successful a person is by examining the stuff they have
+[627.76 --> 637.76]  and so really practically here to make this point how many times do we in the church think that a person will make a good elder
+[637.76 --> 642.76]  a good elder because they're a good business person because they run their own business
+[642.76 --> 650.76]  right they might be a good elder and they might run their own business but running your own business doesn't make you a good elder as a consequence
+[652.76 --> 665.76]  James does not miss the emphasis of Jesus on money and possessions and so here's James point and here's where we will zoom in
+[665.76 --> 678.76]  what you think about wealth and money is directly determined by what you think the crown of life is
+[678.76 --> 682.76]  I'm using some language here we'll get into that in a moment
+[682.76 --> 688.76]  but what you think about wealth and money is directly determined by what you think the crown of life is
+[688.76 --> 694.76]  and that phrase crown of life with your Bibles in front of you you can find it in verse 12.
+[694.76 --> 695.76]  We didn't read it.
+[695.76 --> 697.76]  Verse 12 says,
+[697.76 --> 708.76]  Blessed is the man who perseveres under trial because when he has stood the test he will receive the crown of life that God has promised to those who love him.
+[708.76 --> 717.76]  And blessed is the one who perseveres under trial because when they have stood the test they will receive the crown of life that God has promised to those of love him.
+[717.76 --> 721.76]  And so let's put that too in a little bit of context.
+[721.76 --> 727.76]  So hold on to verse 12 in your mind or put your finger on it if you have it in front of you and then look back to verse 2.
+[727.76 --> 728.76]  Right? Verse 2 says,
+[728.76 --> 729.76]  Right?
+[729.76 --> 747.76]  So in short the text that we read verses 9 through 11 is bracketed by a discussion about trials and testing.
+[747.76 --> 748.76]  Right?
+[748.76 --> 754.76]  James is saying that the first test of whether or not your faith is real is what you think about money and wealth.
+[754.76 --> 766.76]  Being a hearer and doer in the face of this trial is to determine the authenticity of your faith and to do that in a way that is revealed by what you do with your pocketbook.
+[766.76 --> 771.76]  If you want to know what a man loves, look at his wallet.
+[771.76 --> 776.76]  If you want to know what really matters to her, look at her bank book.
+[776.76 --> 785.76]  Now I know that most of us under 40 don't even know what a bank book is and so maybe look at the apps on your phone or look at the app store history of purchase.
+[785.76 --> 786.76]  Look at your Amazon order history.
+[786.76 --> 787.76]  Right?
+[787.76 --> 791.76]  Whatever you find in those places is what you will find a person loves.
+[791.76 --> 798.76]  And that's because whatever you love is your, using James language, crown of life.
+[798.76 --> 807.76]  Now James is picking up on an image that comes across in the New Testament because of the culture it's written in.
+[807.76 --> 808.76]  Right?
+[808.76 --> 816.76]  The Apostle Paul will use this image when he talks about persevering in faith, about running the race that was marked out for us, about competing in the games.
+[816.76 --> 817.76]  Right?
+[817.76 --> 821.76]  Competing in the trials about keeping obedient to the discipline of following God.
+[821.76 --> 822.76]  Right?
+[822.76 --> 828.76]  This crown of life is a phrase that's used in Revelation 2 where Jesus says to the church of Smyrna,
+[828.76 --> 835.76]  Be faithful unto death and I will give you the crown of life.
+[835.76 --> 836.76]  Right?
+[836.76 --> 841.76]  And that image is not a crown of jewels or gold like you might suspect.
+[841.76 --> 843.76]  It is actually a laurel wreath.
+[843.76 --> 844.76]  Right?
+[844.76 --> 852.76]  A wreath of leaves that would be wrapped together and wound together and given to athletes in the Greek games.
+[852.76 --> 864.76]  Or similarly, the Romans had a tradition of an oaken laurel that would be given to soldiers and generals of Rome who have marked themselves out in battle with great accomplishment.
+[864.76 --> 871.76]  It is the prize of your work.
+[871.76 --> 874.76]  And so, what is the prize of your work?
+[874.76 --> 878.76]  What is the reason you do everything and anything?
+[878.76 --> 885.76]  What do you hope will happen or will come to you or what do you hope to gain as a result of your efforts?
+[885.76 --> 886.76]  Right?
+[886.76 --> 887.76]  Everyone has a crown.
+[887.76 --> 888.76]  Right?
+[888.76 --> 891.76]  Or an idea of what your crown is.
+[891.76 --> 895.76]  Everything you do and why you do it is for that crown.
+[895.76 --> 896.76]  And not just one crown.
+[896.76 --> 897.76]  Right?
+[897.76 --> 898.76]  Let's be honest.
+[898.76 --> 902.76]  We have a bunch of different crowns that compete for our attention and for our affections in life.
+[902.76 --> 905.76]  And a bunch of reasons to do this thing or that thing.
+[905.76 --> 908.76]  And sometimes those things are congruent and work together.
+[908.76 --> 910.76]  And sometimes those things are at odds with each other.
+[910.76 --> 922.76]  When I was in university, I really believed that doing well was important.
+[922.76 --> 923.76]  Right?
+[923.76 --> 928.76]  That doing well would help me get into a good grad school with good scholarships to support that work.
+[928.76 --> 935.76]  And I believed that doing well would affect the job that I was able to have in the future.
+[935.76 --> 937.76]  And so, I studied hard.
+[937.76 --> 938.76]  I worked hard.
+[938.76 --> 941.76]  I worked diligently on research papers.
+[941.76 --> 946.76]  And I enrolled in the most difficult classes that my program could offer.
+[946.76 --> 951.76]  And at exactly the same time, I really believed that people mattered.
+[951.76 --> 953.76]  That my social life was important.
+[953.76 --> 957.76]  And that I would miss something amazing if I didn't hang out with everyone.
+[957.76 --> 958.76]  Right?
+[958.76 --> 960.76]  I didn't want people to tell me cool stories.
+[960.76 --> 962.76]  I wanted to be part of people's cool stories.
+[962.76 --> 965.76]  And so, I would stay up too late.
+[965.76 --> 967.76]  I would go out when I should have been studying.
+[967.76 --> 970.76]  And I worried too much about what people thought.
+[970.76 --> 974.76]  And I'd live in this constant state of worry about missing out.
+[974.76 --> 975.76]  Right?
+[975.76 --> 978.76]  Each one of those things crowns at odds with each other.
+[978.76 --> 984.76]  And yet, they each directed aspects or the whole of my life in those moments.
+[984.76 --> 995.76]  And so, what James is saying is that if you want to endure trials and tests of faith, your crown better be able to hold up under the weight you put on it.
+[995.76 --> 996.76]  Right?
+[996.76 --> 1009.76]  And if our crown is made up of the weight of God's glory, if our faith is really real, then the reward, the crown of life really is worth changing your life for.
+[1009.76 --> 1012.76]  And just so we're super clear here.
+[1012.76 --> 1016.76]  The crown of life is eternal blessedness with God.
+[1016.76 --> 1019.76]  The crown of life is resurrection unto salvation.
+[1019.76 --> 1026.76]  The crown of life is dwelling in the majestic beauty of Almighty God on an earth restored to His design and for His glory.
+[1026.76 --> 1035.76]  The crown of life is spiritual riches granted for us in the heavenly realms which you have already received by grace through faith.
+[1035.76 --> 1043.76]  The life you live with real faith as a hearer and doer of the word is the start.
+[1043.76 --> 1046.76]  But the life you live is a foretaste.
+[1046.76 --> 1050.76]  It is a preview of the life to come when Jesus returns.
+[1050.76 --> 1054.76]  And the church in the world is a taste of the kingdom.
+[1054.76 --> 1058.76]  At least when the church lives according to her calling.
+[1058.76 --> 1074.76]  Your life at school, your life at work, your life at soccer or at the gym or in your neighborhood, when you orient yourself towards the crown of life, is a taste of the kingdom of Jesus.
+[1074.76 --> 1077.76]  People see it and wonder.
+[1077.76 --> 1086.76]  And there ought to be a certain magnetism that compels people to move towards Jesus because of how you live.
+[1086.76 --> 1087.76]  Right?
+[1087.76 --> 1094.76]  In your life, to continue this metaphor, you are an evangelist for something, for some vision of the good life.
+[1094.76 --> 1095.76]  Right?
+[1095.76 --> 1096.76]  Everyone is.
+[1096.76 --> 1097.76]  Everyone is an evangelist for something.
+[1097.76 --> 1101.76]  You are what you love and you want others to love like you.
+[1101.76 --> 1102.76]  You.
+[1102.76 --> 1108.76]  You will tell the gospel of Jesus by how you live or you will tell the gospel of the western world.
+[1108.76 --> 1114.76]  The story, the telling of some gospel, the telling of some story by your life is inescapable.
+[1114.76 --> 1120.76]  What really matters for us to think about is whose gospel are you telling?
+[1120.76 --> 1137.76]  And if you want to tell the gospel of Jesus, if you want to be, if you want that to be the story that your life tells, it starts for James and for us today with your view, wealth, and money.
+[1137.76 --> 1150.76]  Believers in humble circumstances ought to take pride in their high position, but the rich should take pride in their humiliation since they will pass away like a wildflower.
+[1150.76 --> 1163.76]  In the world of James, and perhaps still in our world today, it was said that the poor were ignored or punished by God and so they deserved no special courtesy.
+[1163.76 --> 1168.76]  In a world that said the wealthy were blessed by God and should then be shown favor.
+[1168.76 --> 1169.76]  Right?
+[1169.76 --> 1176.76]  In a world that said the wealthy were viewed as spiritually blessed and worthy of special treatment while the poor are considered spiritually poor and treated poorly.
+[1176.76 --> 1182.76]  James is saying, not so for those of you whose faith is made real.
+[1182.76 --> 1183.76]  Right?
+[1183.76 --> 1187.76]  There is a leveling that takes place in the church.
+[1187.76 --> 1188.76]  Right?
+[1188.76 --> 1194.76]  Those in poverty and in humility are raised up and those of wealth and status are brought low.
+[1194.76 --> 1201.76]  Money isn't the determiner of status, but spirituality and Holy Spirit giftedness.
+[1201.76 --> 1203.76]  The New Testament works this out.
+[1203.76 --> 1208.76]  That Paul's letter that he writes to Philemon about Onesimus.
+[1208.76 --> 1214.76]  Onesimus is a former slave of Philemon and he's run away and he's joined up with Paul.
+[1214.76 --> 1215.76]  Right?
+[1215.76 --> 1229.76]  And Paul writes this letter on behalf of Onesimus to Philemon and he says that Philemon, that Onesimus will come back to Philemon no longer as a slave, but better than a slave as a dear brother.
+[1229.76 --> 1235.76]  Paul says, he is very dear to me, but even dear to you both as a man and as a brother.
+[1235.76 --> 1239.76]  So think what Paul has done there.
+[1239.76 --> 1242.76]  He's taken a slave and given him his humanity back.
+[1242.76 --> 1247.76]  He's very dear to me, but even dear to you both as a man.
+[1247.76 --> 1253.76]  And he's taken a slave, given him his humanity back and given him a family as a brother.
+[1253.76 --> 1256.76]  Brother in Christ Jesus.
+[1256.76 --> 1259.76]  A slave is raised up to a brother.
+[1259.76 --> 1264.76]  There's another story that comes out of the second century early church.
+[1264.76 --> 1267.76]  Christian leader by the name of Hermas.
+[1267.76 --> 1272.76]  He is known in history for writing a document called The Shepherd of Hermas.
+[1272.76 --> 1281.76]  This is a collection of writings and a vision that he had received in that at the time of his writing and for a hundred years or so afterwards,
+[1281.76 --> 1288.76]  the earliest church fathers actually considered the Shepherd of Hermas, Hermas' writing to be canonical, part of the Bible.
+[1288.76 --> 1290.76]  They later discerned that that wasn't the case.
+[1290.76 --> 1295.76]  But point is here that Hermas was born as a slave.
+[1295.76 --> 1310.76]  Actually Hermas was, the story goes, was one who was left as an infant be abandoned in the Roman practice of leaving unwanted children outside in a garbage heap.
+[1310.76 --> 1315.76]  And someone came and collected him and raised him as a slave.
+[1315.76 --> 1327.76]  And eventually this person Hermas becomes a Christian and he writes what many consider to be authoritative words and he becomes a leader in the early church.
+[1327.76 --> 1335.76]  A slave becomes a leader, poor become rich and the rich become as with the poor.
+[1335.76 --> 1340.76]  And only the gospel of Jesus does that.
+[1340.76 --> 1348.76]  Right? That's because only the gospel of Jesus levels the playing field before and after regeneration.
+[1348.76 --> 1353.76]  Right? The gospel says that all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God.
+[1353.76 --> 1358.76]  The gospel says that there is no one who is righteous, not even one.
+[1358.76 --> 1368.76]  The gospel says that no matter who you are or how successful in life you are, no matter what kind of status or power you have, whether you are prince or pauper,
+[1368.76 --> 1373.76]  there is nothing that you can do to earn God's favor and salvation.
+[1373.76 --> 1379.76]  That the wages of sin is death for everyone who sins and everyone sins.
+[1379.76 --> 1384.76]  Right? We are all equal in our depravity and in our inability.
+[1384.76 --> 1389.76]  We all need a savior. We all need Jesus.
+[1389.76 --> 1393.76]  And to us all, he comes.
+[1393.76 --> 1401.76]  And to those who are unable and unworthy, to those who are unwilling and righteous, to the dead, he comes to bring life.
+[1401.76 --> 1402.76]  And into this world he comes.
+[1402.76 --> 1407.76]  And though this world did not recognize the voice of the one who created it,
+[1407.76 --> 1413.76]  Jesus comes and he lives the life I should have lived, satisfying God's righteous requirements for obedience.
+[1413.76 --> 1424.76]  And Jesus dies the death that I deserve, satisfying God's righteous demands for justice as a consequence of sin.
+[1424.76 --> 1432.76]  And the same Jesus rises three days later, winning victory over sin and death.
+[1432.76 --> 1436.76]  And now death has lost its sting and sin has been defeated.
+[1436.76 --> 1443.76]  And by the spirit you are raised into new life, into this life, the life of Jesus.
+[1443.76 --> 1446.76]  A life that is not ruled by sin, but ruled by Jesus.
+[1446.76 --> 1453.76]  A life captivated by the beauty of his voice who spoke at creation, who like he did to Lazarus,
+[1453.76 --> 1458.76]  Jesus calls you out of the grave by grace and invites you to live out of that same grace.
+[1458.76 --> 1464.76]  Now, a life lived in a new kind of community that we call the church,
+[1464.76 --> 1470.76]  where all are equal in her eyes and worthy of dignity and respect.
+[1470.76 --> 1474.76]  You are all sons of God through faith in Christ Jesus.
+[1474.76 --> 1479.76]  For all of you who were baptized into Christ have clothed yourselves with Christ.
+[1479.76 --> 1490.76]  There is neither Jew nor Greek, slave nor free, male nor female, for you are all one in Christ.
+[1490.76 --> 1500.76]  The crown of life that Jesus gives is worth more than all the gold or silver, wealth or status that the world can give you.
+[1500.76 --> 1506.76]  A life that lives out that is faith made real.
+[1506.76 --> 1509.76]  That's what it means to be hearers and doers.
+[1509.76 --> 1515.76]  In fact, very quickly, James writing here says,
+[1515.76 --> 1536.76]  James is doing this really beautiful contrast here that's saying that material wealth, material status, material possession,
+[1536.76 --> 1540.76]  they are the things that are illusory, they are the things that will fall away.
+[1540.76 --> 1545.76]  What is really real is your identity in Jesus Christ.
+[1545.76 --> 1550.76]  What is really real is who Jesus is.
+[1552.76 --> 1560.76]  So, let me finish here with a thought or two about how to do this.
+[1560.76 --> 1563.76]  These are just examples, right?
+[1563.76 --> 1569.76]  In part, it is your job to listen and then figure out how to apply this to your specific and unique circumstances.
+[1569.76 --> 1576.76]  And so, I'll give you a couple examples, but then your work to do the hard work of applying it.
+[1576.76 --> 1579.76]  We've heard, now let's do.
+[1579.76 --> 1581.76]  What does doing look like?
+[1581.76 --> 1584.76]  So, maybe you run a business.
+[1584.76 --> 1591.76]  Maybe you've got big clients who spend a ton of money at your business and you've got small clients who only spend a small fraction of that.
+[1591.76 --> 1596.76]  May it be that they both walk away from a meeting with you feeling like they matter.
+[1596.76 --> 1603.76]  Maybe the small client gets the exact same attention and quality of service as the biggest one does.
+[1603.76 --> 1612.76]  And maybe the big client gets to see that you really care about your customers and really want to serve everyone, no matter who they are or where they come from.
+[1612.76 --> 1617.76]  Maybe that's the story you get to tell when you make your faith real.
+[1617.76 --> 1626.76]  Maybe you have a chance to have lunch with the real movers and shakers of our community, right?
+[1626.76 --> 1630.76]  The people to whom the leaders look for leadership.
+[1630.76 --> 1639.76]  And just as you are about to leave to go to have that meeting, someone shows up at your door, someone who you don't know but has come to you for help.
+[1639.76 --> 1646.76]  Maybe that that person gets your attention and love in that moment because, one, they are right in front of you.
+[1646.76 --> 1658.76]  But two, even if they do nothing to advance their standing, to advance your standing, they are worth seeing Jesus in you and from you.
+[1658.76 --> 1662.76]  Maybe there's a disagreement on your team, right?
+[1662.76 --> 1667.76]  And the person on your team or on your board or in your community, right?
+[1667.76 --> 1674.76]  The person with power and money who has bankrolled everything you have done for years threatens to pull out and to take all their money with them.
+[1674.76 --> 1678.76]  You've got to decide what really matters.
+[1678.76 --> 1693.76]  You've got to decide, is placating this person, is keeping the peace with this person more important than what you guys have together prayerfully discerned is the vision of God for your work?
+[1693.76 --> 1694.76]  Try this.
+[1694.76 --> 1699.76]  Look at your yearly household budget.
+[1699.76 --> 1701.76]  Where do you spend your money?
+[1701.76 --> 1703.76]  But your budget tells a story.
+[1703.76 --> 1705.76]  Our church budget tells a story.
+[1705.76 --> 1708.76]  Your budget is your statement of priorities.
+[1708.76 --> 1721.76]  And so, in your budget, whether at church or at home, do you support ministry and mission as much or more or less than vacation?
+[1721.76 --> 1722.76]  Right?
+[1722.76 --> 1729.76]  If someone could see how you spend your money, what would they say you really love?
+[1729.76 --> 1730.76]  And let me be abundantly clear.
+[1730.76 --> 1737.76]  This applies to those of us with lots of money and this applies to those of us with no money.
+[1737.76 --> 1742.76]  Maybe you're a teenager and you think, well, I don't have any money.
+[1742.76 --> 1743.76]  Right?
+[1743.76 --> 1744.76]  What am I going to do?
+[1744.76 --> 1745.76]  How do I show this?
+[1745.76 --> 1755.76]  And yet still, you've bought that whatever DLC content for Fortnite that came out recently because that's what mattered.
+[1755.76 --> 1756.76]  Right?
+[1756.76 --> 1763.76]  You're saving to buy the PS5 because that's what matters when they finally become available on the market again.
+[1763.76 --> 1774.76]  No matter what station or status you have in life, what you do with wealth and money will be determined by what you think the crown of life is.
+[1774.76 --> 1776.76]  Your life tells a story.
+[1776.76 --> 1777.76]  Your life tells a story.
+[1777.76 --> 1778.76]  Your life tells a story.
+[1778.76 --> 1781.76]  That's what it means to be hearers and doers.
+[1781.76 --> 1789.76]  For your life to tell the story of Jesus redeeming and restoring.
+[1789.76 --> 1796.76]  What you do with your money to tell his story.
+[1796.76 --> 1808.76]  And when it does, if it does, even if nothing about our story changes.
+[1808.76 --> 1811.76]  And by that I mean even if we don't get more material blessing.
+[1811.76 --> 1813.76]  Even if we don't get that PS5.
+[1813.76 --> 1816.76]  Even if we can't download that new content.
+[1816.76 --> 1817.76]  Whatever the case may be.
+[1817.76 --> 1819.76]  Even if we don't get that vacation.
+[1819.76 --> 1827.76]  How we live in that moment tells a true better story.
+[1827.76 --> 1831.76]  All those other things are illusory.
+[1831.76 --> 1832.76]  The one that matters.
+[1832.76 --> 1834.76]  The one that matters.
+[1834.76 --> 1835.76]  Jesus.
+[1835.76 --> 1840.76]  May he be your crown of life.
+[1840.76 --> 1844.76]  May the life you live reflect his glory.
+[1844.76 --> 1852.76]  Then, like James began, you might know pure joy.
+[1852.76 --> 1855.76]  Let me pray for you.
+[1855.76 --> 1864.76]  Lord God.
+[1864.76 --> 1871.76]  Would you take this truth and convict us?
+[1871.76 --> 1884.76]  Open our eyes to those places and those people and those circumstances where we have made wealth and power and riches more important than we have made you.
+[1884.76 --> 1888.76]  Your gospel and your story.
+[1888.76 --> 1902.76]  Open our eyes to those places where competing crowns have overwhelmed your position in our hearts on the throne of our lives.
+[1902.76 --> 1907.76]  And as our eyes are opened to your truth this morning.
+[1907.76 --> 1909.76]  Instead of shame.
+[1909.76 --> 1912.76]  May we have conviction.
+[1912.76 --> 1916.76]  Instead of guilt.
+[1916.76 --> 1919.76]  Where we run from you.
+[1919.76 --> 1923.76]  May we experience grace where we are drawn to you.
+[1923.76 --> 1930.76]  And so open our eyes to our need for confession.
+[1930.76 --> 1935.76]  That we might experience your mercy today.
+[1935.76 --> 1942.76]  So forgive us for those times where we have made wealth and status more important.
+[1942.76 --> 1948.76]  Forgive us for those times where we have pursued after other things not of you.
+[1948.76 --> 1953.76]  For those times where they have distracted us from you.
+[1953.76 --> 1955.76]  Raise us up.
+[1955.76 --> 1957.76]  Newness of life.
+[1957.76 --> 1960.76]  That we might live for the glory of your name.
+[1960.76 --> 1963.76]  In Jesus Christ we pray.
+[1963.76 --> 1966.76]  Relying on his Holy Spirit.
+[1966.76 --> 1968.76]  Live in this way.
+[1968.76 --> 1969.76]  We say together.
+[1969.76 --> 1970.76]  Amen.
+[1970.76 --> 1989.76]  S intake A

Identifying Identity (Sermon)_summary.txt

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+• Introduction and welcome to 2021
+• Reflection on unmet expectations in 2020
+• Importance of grounding oneself in God's word
+• Reading from Luke chapter 2, verses 41-52 about Jesus as a boy in Jerusalem
+• Discussion of the story and its relevance to people's experiences
+• Personal anecdote about not having lost a child but relating to the story
+• Emotional response to Mary and Joseph's experience reuniting with their son
+• The trip to Jerusalem was one of three annual pilgrimages for male Israelites
+• Jesus, at 12 years old, traveled with his family but got separated from them and spent 3 days in the temple learning from priests and leaders
+• Luke doesn't provide details about Jesus' time away from his parents, implying they're not important to the story
+• Jesus interacted with teachers and asked questions, showing eagerness to learn and a simplicity of spirit
+• The event shows Jesus as a child who learns by asking questions and discovering, rather than being a wise teacher preaching to others
+• The story of Jesus at the temple is examined to highlight his divine sonship
+• The conversation between Mary and Jesus is crucial, as it shows he knows God is his father
+• Jesus' identity is rooted in his relationship with God, making it a permanent and secure foundation
+• Rooting one's identity in earthly accomplishments or relationships can lead to an identity crisis when those things are lost
+• A secure identity must be rooted in something more permanent than human circumstances.
+• The importance of having one's identity rooted in Christ
+• The conflict that can arise between God's claims and earthly desires
+• Jesus' example of putting God the Father above all else, including family and social standing
+• The security and permanence of identifying oneself as a child of God, co-heir to eternal glory with Christ
+• The biblical support for this identity from Romans 8
+• Embracing sonship or daughterhood in God's kingdom and its implications for one's life
+• The speaker emphasizes that our identity as sons of God is not achieved through good deeds or morality, but rather because of who we are in Christ.
+• Our salvation and identity in Christ are secure due to the death and resurrection of Jesus.
+• We should root our identities in Christ, not in worldly things like jobs, hobbies, or relationships, which can change with circumstances.
+• Our actions and behavior should reflect our identity in Christ.
+• Living securely in Christ means being confident that our identities are rooted solely in him, even in the face of uncertainty or adversity.
+• Affirming Jesus' divine sonship as a boy
+• Recognizing the significance of Jesus' life and actions as being driven by his knowledge of his divinity
+• Conviction to acknowledge one's own sonship with Christ through faith in him
+• Being rooted in one's identity in Christ
+• Living according to their Father's business and doing what they are called to do

Identifying Identity (Sermon)_transcript.txt

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+[0.00 --> 8.72]  Well, welcome everyone to the year 2021.
+[9.76 --> 15.06]  I think I can speak on all of us when I say, good riddance 2020.
+[15.66 --> 20.48]  I figured I'd start the year off with a good cool jump kick.
+[21.18 --> 23.28]  2020 was supposed to be this cool year.
+[23.28 --> 26.46]  When I was 10 years old, I figured that in the year 2020,
+[26.46 --> 34.62]  we would all be working in like flying offices and most of our travel would be done by those tubes that suck you up and just launch you into your next place.
+[34.82 --> 37.52]  And I would be famous on televisions like across the country.
+[38.22 --> 41.66]  But instead, 2020 started with my office getting flooded.
+[42.44 --> 46.00]  My mode of transportation is still just this old dented Toyota matrix.
+[46.62 --> 52.54]  And most of the year we spent dealing with this pandemic that we're all just a little bit too tired discussing.
+[53.26 --> 55.46]  But hey, I'm on TV at least, right?
+[56.46 --> 60.04]  No, all kidding aside, 2020 obviously did not go as planned.
+[60.16 --> 63.46]  And yet, 2021 is now here.
+[64.30 --> 66.32]  Time marches on, as they say.
+[66.64 --> 71.64]  And as we enter into this new calendar year, perhaps very eager to get the old one behind us,
+[72.28 --> 77.48]  it's important for us to be reminded to ground ourselves in the word of God.
+[78.34 --> 85.70]  It's God's word where his promises are revealed, where his salvation is declared, and where our hope is restored.
+[85.70 --> 90.34]  Today, I'd like to read a story that we just heard in Kids Corner.
+[90.84 --> 93.84]  I'd like to read the story about Jesus as a boy.
+[93.92 --> 98.02]  It's the only story of little boy Jesus that we have in our Bible.
+[98.08 --> 104.62]  And I thought since many of us are sort of leaving the Christmas season this week, including the church itself,
+[104.62 --> 110.26]  it would be cool to look at the first story we have of Jesus post-Christmas.
+[110.90 --> 115.44]  The story can be found in Luke chapter 2, verses 41 to 52.
+[115.70 --> 118.34]  It should be on the screen, on your television screens as I read.
+[118.40 --> 123.54]  But I also want to encourage you, again, pull out your Bibles and follow along in your actual Bibles with you.
+[123.58 --> 128.82]  Perhaps even grab a notebook or a journal and take some notes today as we look at this story.
+[128.82 --> 133.66]  If you're not used to doing that, well, it's 2021, and that might be a really good New Year's resolution.
+[133.96 --> 137.98]  So, Luke 2, verses 41 to 52.
+[139.36 --> 140.26]  It reads like this.
+[140.32 --> 144.84]  Every year, Jesus' parents went to Jerusalem for the festival of the Passover.
+[145.36 --> 149.24]  When he was 12 years old, they went up to the festival according to the customs.
+[149.24 --> 157.26]  After the festival was over, while his parents were returning home, the boy Jesus stayed behind in Jerusalem.
+[157.92 --> 159.14]  But they were unaware of it.
+[160.26 --> 163.06]  Thinking he was in their company, they traveled on for a day.
+[163.84 --> 166.86]  Then they began looking for him among their relatives and their friends.
+[167.88 --> 170.58]  When they did not find him, they went back to Jerusalem to look for him.
+[170.58 --> 179.38]  After three days, they found him in the temple courts, sitting amongst the teachers, listening to them, and asking them questions.
+[180.32 --> 183.52]  Everyone who heard him was amazed at his understanding and his answers.
+[184.38 --> 187.94]  When his parents saw him, they were astonished.
+[188.70 --> 189.62]  His mother said to him,
+[190.20 --> 192.76]  Son, why have you treated us like this?
+[192.80 --> 195.78]  Your father and I have been anxiously searching for you.
+[197.22 --> 199.08]  Why were you searching for me?
+[199.08 --> 200.08]  He asked.
+[200.58 --> 203.58]  Didn't you know I had to be in my father's house?
+[204.72 --> 207.20]  But they did not understand what he was saying to them.
+[208.30 --> 211.52]  Then he went down to Nazareth with them and was obedient to them.
+[211.58 --> 214.32]  But his mother treasured all these things in her heart.
+[215.04 --> 220.90]  And Jesus grew in wisdom and stature and in favor with God and with men.
+[222.06 --> 223.20]  The reading of the word.
+[225.30 --> 230.48]  Now this would generally be the part of the sermon where the pastor would share this story.
+[230.48 --> 234.78]  How they too have once lost one of their children.
+[235.30 --> 240.66]  They would talk about the day that they left their kid behind at church and didn't notice for three days.
+[240.82 --> 243.56]  And then they went back and they were reunited at last.
+[243.64 --> 246.60]  And the congregation would cry and applaud the story.
+[246.60 --> 249.66]  And everyone would be connected just a little bit more to this text.
+[249.66 --> 260.78]  Well, I can honestly say with my head held high, even arrogantly so, that Nikki and I have never lost one of our children.
+[261.62 --> 262.26]  Right, Nikki?
+[262.26 --> 264.68]  Where are they, by the way?
+[265.66 --> 266.14]  The kids.
+[266.22 --> 266.70]  Where are the kids?
+[267.84 --> 269.10]  I thought they were with you.
+[269.14 --> 270.26]  I didn't know you were doing Kids Corner.
+[271.40 --> 272.10]  Well, I don't know.
+[272.26 --> 273.48]  Did we leave some Cheerios out at least?
+[274.24 --> 274.66]  You know what?
+[274.72 --> 276.32]  Ruby's very, very capable.
+[276.46 --> 276.92]  She'll be fine.
+[276.92 --> 286.46]  So, even though I don't have a personal story about this, I think it's a story that we can all relate to.
+[287.70 --> 288.64]  I mean, think about it.
+[288.66 --> 291.10]  Put yourself in Mary or in Joseph's shoes for a minute.
+[291.82 --> 295.24]  Missing your kid for three days.
+[296.00 --> 297.66]  That would have been so traumatic.
+[297.66 --> 304.28]  Then, after days spent traveling, going back to the temple and finally reuniting with your son?
+[305.04 --> 307.22]  Man, what a relief.
+[308.12 --> 317.58]  I could picture Mary's face now, just tears changing shape from sadness to joy, being both confused and shocked and relieved all at once.
+[318.72 --> 319.54]  I mean, what a scene.
+[319.60 --> 320.48]  It's quite the story.
+[322.50 --> 324.92]  Losing a kid for three days, that's fascinating.
+[326.02 --> 327.12]  It's terrifying.
+[328.40 --> 334.68]  Now, that journey, that journey to the temple that they took, that was nothing unusual for Joseph to do.
+[334.76 --> 344.20]  In Exodus 34, we read how all the male Israelites were told to go and make that pilgrimage to Jerusalem three times a year for the various feasts.
+[344.26 --> 346.40]  For Passover, for Pentecost, and for the tabernacles.
+[346.70 --> 350.86]  Now, this was one of those trips, and the family went along with them.
+[351.32 --> 355.42]  Jesus went with them as a 12-year-old boy, which is important because he was not 13,
+[355.42 --> 358.60]  which was the age that you became a man in Jewish custom.
+[359.24 --> 364.60]  Now, this journey that they walked on was 100, it was actually over 100 kilometers long.
+[365.14 --> 367.42]  That is a long walk for a family with small kids.
+[367.50 --> 372.48]  I mean, if you've ever walked four kilometers, even four kilometers, with small children, you know what that's like.
+[372.94 --> 374.68]  Imagine walking 100 with them.
+[374.68 --> 379.24]  This group of people that made up Joseph's family also had to have been large.
+[379.24 --> 384.76]  Because it was so big that Mary and Joseph traveled for a whole day thinking that he was in their company.
+[385.66 --> 386.92]  It actually got me thinking a little bit.
+[387.28 --> 393.08]  The biggest Mexico missions trip that I've ever been on with this church was done pretty quick when I got here.
+[393.30 --> 395.00]  And that was 50 people large.
+[395.10 --> 401.10]  There was 37 youth and 13 leaders trucking all the way down across two borders all the way to Tijuana.
+[401.98 --> 404.46]  And not one person in that group was over the age of 30.
+[404.46 --> 412.76]  So you can all believe me when I say, in a group that size, it is very, very easy to forget a couple of kids here and there.
+[413.46 --> 414.36]  They get lost in the shuffle.
+[415.34 --> 415.68]  I'm kidding.
+[416.12 --> 416.54]  I'm kidding.
+[416.68 --> 417.62]  All those youth came home.
+[418.18 --> 422.24]  We always have rigorous buddy systems and thorough van checks, and they all came home that year.
+[422.92 --> 424.20]  Please keep sending your kids to youth.
+[424.68 --> 425.08]  I digress.
+[425.18 --> 429.98]  All of this today, while Jesus being lost for three days is fascinating,
+[429.98 --> 436.02]  and it's central to this story, is not the actual point of this story.
+[436.82 --> 441.10]  Notice in our text today, Luke actually doesn't go into much detail about Jesus being absent.
+[441.34 --> 442.32]  Just that it happened.
+[442.96 --> 444.68]  We don't know where Jesus would have eaten.
+[444.82 --> 446.22]  We don't know where he would have slept.
+[446.48 --> 449.66]  We don't know how he would have functioned for three days without his parents.
+[450.18 --> 453.38]  And the reason we don't know these details is because Luke doesn't mention them,
+[453.44 --> 455.22]  because they don't matter to the story.
+[455.22 --> 460.82]  While it's fascinating to think about, the details of him being lost aren't the point.
+[462.48 --> 467.58]  Just that he was left alone in the temple for three days or so.
+[468.50 --> 470.98]  And that's another fascinating point of this story, isn't it?
+[471.02 --> 477.04]  Jesus hung out with priests and religious leaders for three days as a 12-year-old boy.
+[478.36 --> 482.60]  Notice, though, what Jesus did amongst these scholars.
+[483.30 --> 485.18]  Verse 46, read it along with me.
+[485.22 --> 488.06]  After three days, they, which is Mary and Joseph,
+[488.50 --> 491.40]  after three days they found him in the temple courts,
+[492.22 --> 498.08]  sitting amongst the teachers, listening to them, and asking them questions.
+[500.22 --> 502.76]  For those of us who have heard this story before,
+[503.14 --> 505.96]  I think the picture we sometimes mentally paint
+[505.96 --> 509.66]  is that Jesus is standing there preaching to these religious leaders.
+[509.66 --> 512.82]  We have this idea of Jesus standing on a pedestal of sorts,
+[512.82 --> 516.06]  waving his hands and wagging his fingers at all these leaders,
+[516.06 --> 520.32]  and these religious leaders sitting there, wide-eyed, hands on their fists,
+[520.54 --> 522.76]  just absorbing what Jesus is saying.
+[523.88 --> 525.80]  But that's not what Luke describes here.
+[527.24 --> 530.30]  According to Luke, Jesus was there, but he was sitting.
+[531.10 --> 532.38]  He was the one asking.
+[532.54 --> 533.62]  He was the one learning.
+[533.62 --> 538.48]  He wanted to grow and understand and hear the teachers.
+[539.48 --> 543.00]  Luke tells us that Jesus went with this eagerness to learn,
+[543.52 --> 545.68]  perhaps even with a simplicity of spirit.
+[547.12 --> 548.26]  He was still a boy.
+[548.34 --> 549.34]  He was still studying.
+[549.34 --> 553.22]  In most Bibles, the title to this text,
+[553.32 --> 554.74]  perhaps even in yours at home you can look,
+[554.94 --> 556.12]  the title to this text is
+[556.12 --> 558.42]  The Boy Jesus Teaching in the Temple.
+[559.80 --> 561.76]  But really, a more accurate title would be
+[561.76 --> 564.84]  The Boy Jesus Learning in the Temple.
+[566.92 --> 567.80]  Jesus was a kid.
+[567.88 --> 569.92]  He was learning as kids learn,
+[569.98 --> 571.08]  by asking questions,
+[571.80 --> 572.60]  and by discovering.
+[573.14 --> 575.14]  Now, he was wise.
+[575.14 --> 579.36]  The teachers were amazed at his questions, we read.
+[579.42 --> 581.72]  They were amazed at his understanding.
+[582.08 --> 583.86]  They were amazed at his answer.
+[584.94 --> 588.80]  Jesus was wise, and his wisdom grew as he did.
+[590.92 --> 592.82]  Another thing that's crazy, if you think about it,
+[592.84 --> 594.22]  is that this group of leaders
+[594.22 --> 597.82]  that were so amazed by this 12-year-old boy
+[597.82 --> 600.62]  would end up being the same group of leaders
+[600.62 --> 602.40]  that wanted him nailed to that cross.
+[605.14 --> 606.22]  But brothers and sisters,
+[607.36 --> 609.64]  that's not even the point of this story.
+[610.74 --> 614.64]  This is not a story of a lost boy or a wise child.
+[615.78 --> 617.88]  We find the point of this story
+[617.88 --> 622.12]  where the narration ends and the dialogue begins.
+[623.50 --> 627.48]  Verses 48 and 49 become the climax of this story,
+[627.58 --> 629.50]  and it's this little back and forth
+[629.50 --> 631.40]  between Mary and Jesus
+[631.40 --> 634.18]  that becomes so important for us today,
+[634.18 --> 637.58]  even as we begin the year 2021 together.
+[638.50 --> 639.92]  Read those two verses with me.
+[640.16 --> 642.28]  Verses 48 and 49.
+[642.68 --> 643.08]  They say,
+[643.46 --> 644.90]  When his parents saw him,
+[645.32 --> 646.62]  they were astonished.
+[647.44 --> 648.48]  His mother said to him,
+[648.88 --> 651.74]  Son, why have you treated us like this?
+[652.04 --> 653.16]  Your father and I
+[653.16 --> 655.40]  have been anxiously searching for you.
+[657.64 --> 659.34]  Why were you searching for me?
+[660.02 --> 660.84]  Jesus asks.
+[660.84 --> 665.42]  Didn't you know I had to be about my father's business?
+[665.86 --> 669.00]  Didn't you know I had to be in my father's house?
+[669.48 --> 669.94]  That's it.
+[670.14 --> 671.70]  That's the central cog to the story.
+[671.98 --> 673.88]  The piece that is so important for us today.
+[674.30 --> 674.70]  Mary says,
+[674.78 --> 675.82]  Why did you stay behind?
+[676.14 --> 676.84]  Your father and I,
+[676.90 --> 677.80]  we were so worried.
+[678.16 --> 678.74]  And Jesus says,
+[678.78 --> 679.44]  Why were you worried?
+[680.54 --> 682.44]  Didn't you know I had to be in my father's house?
+[683.02 --> 684.28]  Or some translations say,
+[684.44 --> 686.38]  Didn't you know I had to be about my father's business?
+[686.38 --> 690.64]  Whether it was his father's house or his father's business,
+[690.82 --> 692.38]  doesn't matter so much.
+[692.46 --> 696.74]  What's important is that the 12-year-old boy,
+[697.14 --> 697.50]  Jesus,
+[698.12 --> 702.90]  acknowledged that his father was God.
+[702.90 --> 706.40]  This was a boy, yes.
+[706.60 --> 711.04]  But it was a boy that knew that God was his father.
+[712.24 --> 716.78]  This passage is about Jesus' divine sonship,
+[716.90 --> 718.14]  more than anything else.
+[718.86 --> 722.22]  It's not necessarily about Mary and Joseph's forgetting Jesus at the temple.
+[722.48 --> 725.84]  It's not necessarily about Jesus' learning at the feet of the Jewish leaders.
+[726.06 --> 729.30]  And it's not necessarily about the Jewish leaders' response
+[729.30 --> 731.16]  and amazement at Jesus' wisdom.
+[731.16 --> 735.28]  All of those things are important and lead to this moment,
+[735.48 --> 738.98]  this little conversation between Jesus and Mary,
+[739.40 --> 745.10]  this little but crucial moment where Jesus announces that God is his father
+[745.10 --> 752.92]  and that his identity is rooted in the fact that he is God's son.
+[755.34 --> 759.56]  In fact, the words that Jesus speaks in this passage here
+[759.56 --> 763.58]  are the first recorded words of Jesus that we have in our Bibles.
+[764.66 --> 769.06]  Everything he does from this point on is guided by these words.
+[770.68 --> 773.32]  His life, as exemplified in this story,
+[773.38 --> 779.28]  was completely directed by the unique relationship that he had with God his father.
+[779.28 --> 787.54]  Jesus was fully human, but he was also fully cognizant that God was his father.
+[789.18 --> 795.12]  Jesus' identity was rooted in his divine sonship.
+[795.12 --> 797.12]  Jesus' identity was rooted in his father.
+[797.12 --> 798.64]  So what about you?
+[800.00 --> 803.90]  What is your identity rooted in?
+[806.40 --> 811.66]  I think often we root our identities in the accomplishments that we've achieved,
+[811.90 --> 813.38]  in the things that we do.
+[813.38 --> 819.14]  I am Kevin, youth pastor at Langley Emanuel CRC, student at Acts Seminary,
+[819.62 --> 822.10]  co-founder of Reactivate Youth Conference.
+[823.16 --> 825.20]  The things we do, the accomplishments we have.
+[826.14 --> 830.14]  Other times we root our identities in our earthly relationships, right?
+[830.22 --> 833.38]  I am Kevin, son of Murray and Helen, brother of Dennis and Justine,
+[833.70 --> 835.76]  husband of Nicky, father of Eden, Isla Ruby.
+[835.76 --> 842.98]  There's a problem with rooting our identities in the things we achieve
+[842.98 --> 845.20]  or in the people that we love.
+[846.64 --> 848.98]  The problem is those things are finite.
+[850.68 --> 854.84]  If I'm no longer the youth pastor here, am I still Kevin?
+[856.42 --> 859.68]  If Reactivate doesn't happen, am I still Kevin?
+[859.68 --> 859.78]  Kevin?
+[859.78 --> 866.94]  If the relationships I have with my family or my friends suddenly end,
+[867.02 --> 870.96]  if my parents or my spouse suddenly and sadly pass away,
+[871.34 --> 872.82]  am I still me?
+[876.94 --> 879.76]  If we root our identities in these earthly things,
+[879.82 --> 881.60]  when life's turbulence hits,
+[881.80 --> 884.54]  as it did for so many of us last year in 2020,
+[885.40 --> 888.40]  the danger is our identities start to waver too.
+[888.40 --> 893.22]  When that happens, we find ourselves in the middle of an identity crisis.
+[894.72 --> 896.28]  Brothers and sisters, our identities,
+[896.46 --> 900.60]  they need to be rooted in something so much more secure
+[900.60 --> 904.10]  and something way more permanent than the things we do
+[904.10 --> 907.86]  or the worldviews we have or the people that we love.
+[908.96 --> 910.64]  I know that that sounds maybe a bit harsh,
+[910.98 --> 913.94]  but it's the example Jesus sets for us here in this story.
+[914.32 --> 916.94]  His identity was not part of Mary and Joseph's family.
+[916.94 --> 922.70]  But that he was God's son and he was about his father's business.
+[924.86 --> 927.86]  Our identities need to be rooted in Christ.
+[929.38 --> 932.32]  Now perhaps many of you long-time Christians have heard this before,
+[932.34 --> 934.82]  and this answer, it might not be the big punch to the gut
+[934.82 --> 937.06]  that maybe some of you desire in a sermon,
+[937.06 --> 940.14]  but I hope that the magnitude of this truth
+[940.14 --> 944.22]  just may sink in a little bit deeper for you today.
+[945.22 --> 947.70]  Your identity is in Christ.
+[948.08 --> 951.32]  You are a child of the living God.
+[951.44 --> 954.32]  God has claimed you as his own.
+[954.32 --> 958.64]  Sometimes this can be challenging.
+[958.76 --> 960.48]  This can be hard because God's claims
+[960.48 --> 964.40]  can stand in open conflict with your earthly desires.
+[964.54 --> 967.04]  Sometimes God's claim on your life
+[967.04 --> 969.48]  will affect your loyalty to your family
+[969.48 --> 971.56]  or your social standing
+[971.56 --> 973.62]  or your economic prosperity.
+[975.20 --> 978.86]  Sometimes that's the cost of belonging to God.
+[978.86 --> 983.62]  Jesus here puts God the Father above all,
+[984.50 --> 985.54]  including his own mother.
+[986.50 --> 988.72]  And by doing so, he shows the world
+[988.72 --> 990.62]  who his identity is rooted in
+[990.62 --> 993.06]  and sets an example for us all to follow.
+[994.82 --> 998.30]  Notice his love and his obedience for his mother do not change.
+[998.30 --> 1003.08]  But God is still who he roots his identity in.
+[1004.52 --> 1006.58]  Your identity is not the job you do.
+[1006.84 --> 1008.28]  It's not the school you go to.
+[1008.42 --> 1010.96]  Not the things you know, the hobbies you partake in,
+[1011.14 --> 1013.60]  or even the family or the friends that you have.
+[1013.86 --> 1016.50]  Your identity isn't found traveling the world
+[1016.50 --> 1019.78]  or rebelling against some social system that you disagree with.
+[1020.14 --> 1021.22]  Jobs change.
+[1021.64 --> 1023.38]  Schools finish one way or the other.
+[1023.78 --> 1025.58]  Hobbies come and hobbies go.
+[1025.92 --> 1026.94]  Trips get canceled.
+[1026.94 --> 1028.80]  Picket lines end.
+[1029.70 --> 1033.42]  Your identity is so much more secure than that.
+[1035.02 --> 1036.94]  Your identity is in Christ.
+[1037.68 --> 1039.40]  You are a child of God,
+[1039.70 --> 1041.06]  created in his image
+[1041.06 --> 1046.10]  and co-heirs to the eternal glory with Christ.
+[1048.74 --> 1049.58]  Romans 8,
+[1049.64 --> 1051.58]  For those who are led by the Spirit of God
+[1051.58 --> 1054.28]  are the children of God.
+[1054.58 --> 1056.74]  The Spirit you receive does not make you slaves
+[1056.74 --> 1057.98]  so that you live in fear again.
+[1057.98 --> 1064.02]  Rather, the Spirit you received brought about your adoption to sonship.
+[1064.78 --> 1065.84]  And by him we cry,
+[1066.04 --> 1066.94]  Abba, Father,
+[1067.02 --> 1068.48]  which we sang earlier today.
+[1069.20 --> 1071.58]  The Spirit himself testifies with our spirit
+[1071.58 --> 1074.40]  that we are God's children.
+[1074.40 --> 1076.54]  Now, if we are children,
+[1076.54 --> 1078.10]  then we are heirs.
+[1078.60 --> 1082.34]  Heirs of God and co-heirs with Christ.
+[1083.04 --> 1089.32]  If indeed we share in his sufferings in order that we may also share in his glory.
+[1089.32 --> 1093.58]  That's the truth that Paul proclaims in Romans 8.
+[1095.42 --> 1098.88]  Our identities are rooted in Christ,
+[1098.96 --> 1102.88]  meaning we share in his glory.
+[1102.88 --> 1107.58]  We are all sons of God,
+[1107.68 --> 1109.54]  adopted into sonship,
+[1109.94 --> 1111.38]  as Romans puts it.
+[1111.82 --> 1112.34]  Now, just quickly,
+[1112.44 --> 1114.74]  for those of you who want me to say we are sons and daughters of God,
+[1115.24 --> 1117.64]  that does God's inheritance a bit of a disservice.
+[1117.78 --> 1118.58]  Back when this was written,
+[1119.02 --> 1122.24]  firstborn sons were the ones who inherited what the Father rules over.
+[1122.24 --> 1124.14]  And so when God calls all of us,
+[1124.58 --> 1126.22]  brothers and sisters alike,
+[1126.78 --> 1127.48]  his sons,
+[1127.88 --> 1129.68]  and adopt us into his sonship,
+[1130.78 --> 1134.68]  that means we are all co-heirs with Christ,
+[1135.10 --> 1137.46]  of God's eternal inheritance.
+[1137.90 --> 1141.22]  Just like men need to be okay with being the bride of Christ,
+[1141.54 --> 1146.46]  women embrace that you are being adopted into the sonship with God.
+[1147.10 --> 1149.66]  And when we embrace that identity,
+[1149.66 --> 1152.98]  all the eternal glory that comes with it,
+[1154.12 --> 1157.46]  our identities are rooted into something so much greater
+[1157.46 --> 1159.12]  and so much more permanent
+[1159.12 --> 1161.50]  that it will never waver.
+[1161.92 --> 1163.08]  It will never end.
+[1163.12 --> 1163.70]  It is forever.
+[1164.16 --> 1164.98]  More than your work,
+[1165.10 --> 1165.88]  more than your school,
+[1166.60 --> 1167.36]  more than your trips,
+[1168.10 --> 1168.86]  more than your family.
+[1170.08 --> 1171.18]  That's why Jesus,
+[1171.82 --> 1172.56]  little Jesus,
+[1172.72 --> 1173.72]  12-year-old Jesus,
+[1174.16 --> 1176.48]  can look his mother in the eye and simply say,
+[1177.24 --> 1178.20]  didn't you know
+[1178.20 --> 1181.14]  I had to be about my Father's business?
+[1184.42 --> 1186.52]  We too need to be about our Father's business,
+[1186.62 --> 1186.92]  don't we?
+[1186.96 --> 1189.18]  Not necessarily because he commands us to,
+[1189.88 --> 1190.78]  though that is true,
+[1191.46 --> 1194.52]  but because we are sons of God.
+[1194.60 --> 1196.80]  We are co-heirs with Christ.
+[1197.54 --> 1198.78]  That is who we are.
+[1199.88 --> 1201.02]  That's our identity.
+[1201.26 --> 1202.76]  That means that the things we do,
+[1202.76 --> 1206.26]  we do not do because we are morally obliged to do them,
+[1206.58 --> 1210.72]  but rather it's because it is who we are.
+[1211.60 --> 1213.82]  It is because of who we are
+[1213.82 --> 1215.82]  that we should live the lives of love,
+[1215.94 --> 1217.88]  that we should live lives seeking justice
+[1217.88 --> 1219.10]  or loving mercy,
+[1219.46 --> 1220.50]  forgiving others.
+[1220.80 --> 1222.96]  We are to go and make disciples of all nations.
+[1223.10 --> 1224.54]  We're to pray and to teach
+[1224.54 --> 1226.82]  and to live our lives under the umbrella
+[1226.82 --> 1230.40]  that we belong to God.
+[1230.40 --> 1234.10]  We must be about our Father's business
+[1234.10 --> 1235.72]  because that's who we are.
+[1238.08 --> 1238.64]  Furthermore,
+[1239.44 --> 1241.22]  our identities in Christ
+[1241.22 --> 1242.72]  are not something that we achieve.
+[1243.62 --> 1245.38]  We don't do anything for them.
+[1246.50 --> 1248.52]  Rather, they're something that we have received
+[1248.52 --> 1250.94]  through the grace, mercy, and love
+[1250.94 --> 1251.84]  of Christ
+[1251.84 --> 1254.00]  and his death and his resurrection.
+[1255.18 --> 1256.86]  The only thing we contributed
+[1256.86 --> 1258.56]  to that salvation that we received
+[1258.56 --> 1259.96]  was our sin.
+[1259.96 --> 1263.54]  And Christ defeated that once and for all
+[1263.54 --> 1265.86]  when he broke forth from the tomb.
+[1266.70 --> 1270.22]  Our salvation in Christ is secure,
+[1270.82 --> 1273.74]  which means we can rest assured
+[1273.74 --> 1275.66]  that our identities in him
+[1275.66 --> 1277.44]  are equally secure.
+[1279.80 --> 1281.06]  Brothers and sisters,
+[1281.44 --> 1282.92]  Jesus acknowledged his identity,
+[1283.10 --> 1283.64]  his purpose,
+[1283.96 --> 1284.56]  his mission
+[1284.56 --> 1287.90]  by affirming his sonship to God.
+[1287.90 --> 1290.16]  May we do the same.
+[1290.90 --> 1292.54]  May we affirm that we are sons of God
+[1292.54 --> 1295.48]  and that we belong both body and soul
+[1295.48 --> 1297.46]  in life and in death
+[1297.46 --> 1299.60]  to our faithful Savior,
+[1300.06 --> 1300.90]  Jesus Christ,
+[1301.56 --> 1303.82]  which again we read this morning together.
+[1304.88 --> 1305.78]  So to close,
+[1306.02 --> 1307.42]  let us not root our identities
+[1307.42 --> 1308.58]  in the things of this world.
+[1308.94 --> 1310.56]  Your identity should not be built
+[1310.56 --> 1312.14]  on the foundation of your job
+[1312.14 --> 1314.16]  or the hobbies that you partake in
+[1314.16 --> 1315.98]  or the relations you have in this world
+[1315.98 --> 1317.88]  because those things can change
+[1317.88 --> 1319.00]  with the tides.
+[1320.06 --> 1321.60]  Instead, know that your identity
+[1321.60 --> 1323.26]  is rooted in Christ
+[1323.26 --> 1325.08]  and the eternal glory
+[1325.08 --> 1327.18]  that he obtained with his death
+[1327.18 --> 1328.48]  and his resurrection.
+[1329.24 --> 1331.12]  That is forever.
+[1331.12 --> 1334.62]  And in that knowledge,
+[1335.02 --> 1336.36]  let us live our lives
+[1336.36 --> 1337.66]  knowing who we are,
+[1338.46 --> 1340.22]  sons of the living God.
+[1341.22 --> 1342.46]  May our actions,
+[1342.62 --> 1343.96]  our comings and our goings,
+[1344.00 --> 1344.52]  our speaking,
+[1344.70 --> 1345.16]  our listening,
+[1345.28 --> 1346.08]  our thinking,
+[1347.08 --> 1348.08]  may it all reflect
+[1348.08 --> 1349.28]  our identity in Christ.
+[1350.48 --> 1351.90]  And may we live this out
+[1351.90 --> 1352.54]  in the world
+[1352.54 --> 1354.08]  that we have been placed in.
+[1355.44 --> 1356.00]  That way,
+[1356.08 --> 1358.90]  no matter what 2021 may bring,
+[1358.90 --> 1360.84]  when we go about
+[1360.84 --> 1361.80]  our Father's business,
+[1361.94 --> 1363.76]  confident that our identities
+[1363.76 --> 1365.30]  are rooted solely in him
+[1365.30 --> 1366.96]  and his promises to us,
+[1367.70 --> 1368.76]  no surprises,
+[1368.96 --> 1369.50]  no losses,
+[1369.64 --> 1370.38]  no pandemic
+[1370.38 --> 1372.70]  can uproot us
+[1372.70 --> 1374.44]  from that.
+[1375.44 --> 1377.54]  We can live secure.
+[1377.80 --> 1379.72]  We can die secure
+[1379.72 --> 1381.72]  knowing that we belong
+[1381.72 --> 1383.56]  both body and soul
+[1383.56 --> 1386.02]  in life and in death
+[1386.02 --> 1387.34]  to Christ,
+[1387.84 --> 1388.48]  our Savior.
+[1389.76 --> 1390.92]  And if anything,
+[1391.44 --> 1394.56]  on this third day of 2021,
+[1394.98 --> 1396.62]  we can remember this,
+[1397.36 --> 1398.28]  that truly,
+[1399.16 --> 1400.98]  that is our only comfort
+[1400.98 --> 1403.90]  in life and in death.
+[1404.42 --> 1404.66]  Amen.
+[1405.00 --> 1405.94]  Please let me pray with you.
+[1408.68 --> 1409.74]  Father in heaven,
+[1410.02 --> 1410.82]  we are grateful
+[1410.82 --> 1411.90]  for this text today,
+[1412.14 --> 1413.36]  grateful for this story
+[1413.36 --> 1415.00]  of Jesus as a boy
+[1415.00 --> 1418.36]  affirming his divine sonship.
+[1418.36 --> 1419.58]  And Lord,
+[1419.64 --> 1420.56]  everything he did
+[1420.56 --> 1421.36]  in his life
+[1421.36 --> 1423.20]  was out of that knowledge
+[1423.20 --> 1424.20]  that he was your son.
+[1425.52 --> 1425.98]  God,
+[1426.04 --> 1426.92]  may we be convicted
+[1426.92 --> 1427.50]  of this same.
+[1427.58 --> 1428.58]  May we acknowledge
+[1428.58 --> 1429.86]  our sonship,
+[1429.92 --> 1430.82]  that we are co-heirs
+[1430.82 --> 1431.42]  with Christ
+[1431.42 --> 1432.84]  because of what he did
+[1432.84 --> 1434.08]  on the cross
+[1434.08 --> 1435.34]  and coming forth
+[1435.34 --> 1435.90]  from the tomb,
+[1435.98 --> 1437.24]  that we are co-heirs
+[1437.24 --> 1437.82]  with him.
+[1437.82 --> 1441.30]  Lord,
+[1441.36 --> 1441.94]  may we root
+[1441.94 --> 1442.76]  our identities
+[1442.76 --> 1443.88]  in that knowledge,
+[1444.10 --> 1445.18]  root our identities
+[1445.18 --> 1446.22]  in Christ,
+[1447.12 --> 1448.04]  and may we
+[1448.04 --> 1449.62]  be about our
+[1449.62 --> 1450.36]  Father's business
+[1450.36 --> 1451.04]  in this world.
+[1451.16 --> 1452.02]  May we go out
+[1452.02 --> 1453.42]  knowing that is who we are
+[1453.42 --> 1454.52]  and we do the things
+[1454.52 --> 1455.80]  that you call us to do
+[1455.80 --> 1456.80]  because of our identities.
+[1457.86 --> 1458.84]  And may that
+[1458.84 --> 1459.86]  not shake us
+[1459.86 --> 1461.18]  no matter what
+[1461.18 --> 1462.72]  2021 throws at us.
+[1462.72 --> 1463.78]  We pray this all
+[1463.78 --> 1464.62]  in your son's
+[1464.62 --> 1466.36]  precious and holy name.
+[1467.30 --> 1467.62]  Amen.

Joy Has Dawned - December 19, 2021_summary.txt

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+• Christ's birth and redemption
+• Christmas musical "Joy Has Dawned" by Lloyd Larson
+• Importance of hope brought by Christ
+• Invitation to sing along during select parts of the musical
+• Gratitude to those involved in preparing the evening, including family members and volunteers
+• COVID-19 protocols for attending the event
+• Gratitude expressed to individuals who contributed to the musical event
+• Acknowledgement of Mike Angel's influence on Eric and himself in their musical development
+• Tribute to Dave Alexander, a former worship leader and choir director at Emmanuel, who passed away from ALS
+• Reflections on Dave's musical talent and impact on the church community
+• Prayer led by John Folkerts to dedicate the service to God through music
+• Joy to the world and celebration of God's gift of love
+• The story of Jesus' birth: Isaiah's prophecy, a virgin giving birth to Emmanuel, Caesar Augustus' decree, and Jesus' birth in Bethlehem
+• References to various hymns and worship songs (e.g. "Joy to the World", "Praise be the Lord")
+• Repeated themes of joy, glory, and the light shining after darkness
+• A baby is born to Mary
+• An angel appears to shepherds outside Bethlehem and announces the birth of Jesus
+• The shepherds visit Mary, Joseph, and the newborn baby in a manger
+• They offer their gifts and spread the word about what they witnessed
+• Mary treasured up all that happened and pondered them in her heart
+• A way in a manger
+• The story of Jesus' birth, including angels and shepherds
+• The Magi from the east coming to worship Jesus
+• The gifts of gold, incense, and myrrh presented to Jesus
+• Worship and devotion to Jesus as Redeemer
+• Joy has dawned upon the world with the birth of Jesus Christ
+• The promise of God's salvation is now fulfilled through Jesus' birth
+• The joy is not just for one nation, but for all nations and people
+• Jesus was born in humble circumstances, as a gift of love from God to humanity
+• Angels sang and celebrated the birth of Jesus with shepherds and magi
+• The message of Jesus' birth is one of hope and freedom for all people
+• Discussion of a Christmas musical performance
+• Reference to Jesus Christ's birth and its significance
+• Expression of gratitude from the director and participants
+• Call to prayer and reflection on the importance of faith during the holiday season
+• Conclusion of the evening with a final prayer and blessing
+• Mention of COVID-19 (referred to as "Covac") impacting plans for the musical

Joy Has Dawned - December 19, 2021_transcript.txt

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+[0.00 --> 9.12]  So this was truly God, wrapped up in a tattered blanket.
+[12.66 --> 19.62]  Love was finally here, sleeping while the world awakened.
+[19.62 --> 28.62]  And redemption began with a baby.
+[30.00 --> 42.62]  In Bethlehem, all of the angels lifted up their voices and filled the night with hallelujah.
+[42.62 --> 46.62]  God is with us now.
+[47.52 --> 52.62]  Everyone come and join the heavenly chorus.
+[53.76 --> 58.68]  Our Savior, King, is here before us.
+[58.68 --> 63.30]  All to hear the sound.
+[63.30 --> 71.30]  The song creation sang when hope came down.
+[73.14 --> 77.80]  Let us sing redemption song.
+[78.70 --> 84.10]  Let us worship Christ the Holy One.
+[84.10 --> 92.72]  We were lost but we were found when hope came down.
+[92.72 --> 96.72]  When hope came down.
+[96.72 --> 110.34]  All of the angels lifted up their voices and filled the night with hallelujahs.
+[110.34 --> 114.96]  God is with us now.
+[114.96 --> 120.58]  Everyone come and join the heavenly chorus.
+[120.58 --> 128.34]  Our Savior, King, is here before us.
+[128.34 --> 129.20]  And we are with us now.
+[129.20 --> 132.20]  Let us worship Christ the Holy One.
+[132.20 --> 135.26]  Let us worship Christ the Holy One.
+[135.26 --> 139.20]  Let us worship Christ the Holy One.
+[139.20 --> 143.24]  When hope came down
+[143.24 --> 153.98]  When hope came, when hope came down
+[169.20 --> 188.20]  O come, all ye faithful
+[188.20 --> 194.20]  Joyful and triumphant
+[194.20 --> 207.20]  O come, ye O come ye to Bethlehem
+[207.20 --> 214.20]  Come and behold him
+[214.20 --> 220.20]  Born the King of angels
+[220.20 --> 226.20]  O come, let us adore him
+[226.20 --> 232.20]  O come, let us adore him
+[232.20 --> 239.20]  O come, let us adore him
+[239.20 --> 246.20]  Christ the Lord
+[246.20 --> 253.20]  O call of glory
+[253.20 --> 262.20]  O skipping this letter
+[262.20 --> 267.24]  Sing in exultation.
+[267.24 --> 279.40]  Sing all ye citizens of heaven above.
+[281.00 --> 286.86]  Glory to God, oh.
+[286.86 --> 292.74]  Glory in the highest.
+[292.74 --> 299.06]  Oh, come let us adore Him.
+[299.28 --> 305.50]  Oh, come let us adore Him.
+[305.66 --> 315.24]  Oh, come let us adore Him, Christ.
+[315.24 --> 325.12]  Lord, we worship Christ, Lord.
+[327.12 --> 329.62]  We worship You, Jesus.
+[329.62 --> 337.12]  Oh, come let us adore Him.
+[337.12 --> 345.00]  Oh, come let us adore Him.
+[345.00 --> 349.00]  Oh, come let us adore Him.
+[349.00 --> 354.88]  Happy morning, Jesus.
+[354.88 --> 364.88]  To Thee be all glory given.
+[364.88 --> 371.76]  Word of the Father.
+[372.76 --> 377.76]  All in flesh appearing.
+[377.76 --> 385.64]  Oh, come let us adore Him.
+[385.64 --> 387.64]  Oh, come let us adore Him.
+[387.64 --> 388.64]  Welcome, everyone.
+[388.64 --> 389.64]  It's good to have you all here.
+[389.64 --> 393.64]  Welcome to everyone online as well.
+[393.64 --> 397.52]  And a special welcome to all those visiting.
+[397.52 --> 401.52]  Yeah, we're really excited to have you here with us this evening.
+[401.52 --> 407.52]  Due to the recent COVID mandate and the evolving situation across the province, I ask you please,
+[407.52 --> 417.40]  well, I assume you've already sanitized as you walked in and please keep your mask on, especially while you're singing along with us.
+[417.40 --> 430.40]  Yeah, on your way in, if you were unable to contribute to the absurd flood relief and are still willing to help out, there's a link in the program to donate online and cash donations are still accepted as well.
+[430.40 --> 431.40]  Yeah, thank you.
+[431.40 --> 434.40]  Thank you so much for your support.
+[434.40 --> 442.40]  So tonight, as a church, we are thrilled to present to you Lloyd's Larson, Joy Has Dawned.
+[442.40 --> 452.40]  Joy Has Dawned is a Christmas musical celebrating the birth of Christ and the hope that He brings to the world.
+[452.40 --> 459.40]  The central theme of joy is highlighted through the familiar tunes, Joy to the World, Joyful, Joyful,
+[459.40 --> 466.40]  We Adore Thee, and through Keith Getty's new music, Joy Has Dawned, hence the title.
+[466.40 --> 475.40]  Interspersed with readings, Lloyd Larson takes these tunes, along with many more, to bring the Christmas story to life.
+[475.40 --> 482.40]  As the musical comes to a close, the listener is left with an overwhelming sense of hope.
+[482.40 --> 491.40]  A hope that only Christ can bring that is essential for overcoming the challenges of today's world.
+[491.40 --> 497.40]  Throughout the musical, there are portions where you, as a congregation, are encouraged to sing along.
+[497.40 --> 505.40]  Whenever the lyrics are yellow up, whenever the lyrics are yellow, you're welcome to join us.
+[505.40 --> 512.40]  The sing along portions in the program are only a select few near the end.
+[512.40 --> 519.40]  So I will now take a moment to thank all those involved who made this evening possible.
+[519.40 --> 531.40]  First, and most importantly, I thank my wife, Juliana, for supporting me through watching the kids during all the many rehearsals.
+[531.40 --> 538.40]  Without you, this evening doesn't happen. So thank you so much, honey.
+[538.40 --> 546.40]  Thank you, choir members, for all your time and effort invested into making this musical come together.
+[546.40 --> 551.40]  And for putting up with my antics all these weeks.
+[551.40 --> 555.40]  This includes our wonderful children's choir in the back there.
+[555.40 --> 558.40]  Thank you, kids, so much for doing this.
+[558.40 --> 564.40]  And of course, a thank you to their parents, bringing them to and from rehearsal.
+[564.40 --> 573.40]  A special thanks to my dad, Neil deGuis, for helping me transport the piano week after week after week
+[573.40 --> 578.40]  so I could more easily conduct rehearsals.
+[578.40 --> 581.40]  And he also provided everyone with folders.
+[581.40 --> 590.40]  A special thanks also to my mom, Katie deGuis, for assisting me with the logistics of this evening leading up to this evening.
+[590.40 --> 593.40]  And for providing singing masks for everybody.
+[593.40 --> 600.40]  Thank you, Eric, for so generously giving your time and expertise on the piano.
+[600.40 --> 602.40]  It's much appreciated.
+[602.40 --> 608.40]  Thank you, Peter and Fran, for your time spent learning these narrations.
+[608.40 --> 614.40]  Thank you, Ken, for assisting Eric in turning pages.
+[614.40 --> 620.40]  And thank you to the deacons who were able to help with this night.
+[620.40 --> 622.40]  Now those behind the scenes.
+[622.40 --> 626.40]  Thank you, Pastor Chris, for your invested interest in the musical.
+[626.40 --> 629.40]  Your approachability made everything easier.
+[629.40 --> 632.40]  Anything that needed discussing was quickly resolved.
+[632.40 --> 636.40]  Thank you, Langley Christian, for lending the choir risers.
+[636.40 --> 641.40]  And to Eric Van Heusen for lending the truck so I could transport them over here.
+[641.40 --> 644.40]  Thank you, Johanna, for helping coordinate this evening.
+[644.40 --> 649.40]  Thank you, Linda, for putting together the overheads.
+[649.40 --> 651.40]  And Matt, for handling the soundboard.
+[651.40 --> 656.40]  Thank you, Nicole, for putting together the Facebook Instagram post.
+[656.40 --> 663.40]  And last, but most certainly not least, thank you, Marilyn, for setting up the online link
+[663.40 --> 665.40]  and putting the programs together.
+[665.40 --> 667.40]  I hope I didn't miss anyone.
+[667.40 --> 677.40]  Now, for myself and I think Eric North here, this is sort of a special night.
+[677.40 --> 688.40]  So I, because there is someone here who, yeah, who had a musical influence on both of us.
+[688.40 --> 691.40]  Early in our musical development.
+[691.40 --> 694.40]  Way back in high school 20 years ago.
+[694.40 --> 696.40]  Yeah, so Mike Angel, I don't know where you are.
+[696.40 --> 698.40]  Could you stand up?
+[698.40 --> 700.40]  Yeah.
+[700.40 --> 701.40]  There he is.
+[701.40 --> 702.40]  Give him a round of applause.
+[702.40 --> 703.40]  Yeah, there he is.
+[703.40 --> 704.40]  Yeah, there he is.
+[704.40 --> 717.40]  Yeah, so Mike, yeah, it's Mr. and Mrs. Angel, it's great to have you here with us tonight.
+[717.40 --> 723.40]  Now, this was the portion that I wasn't sure how, it was, this was the most difficult part
+[723.40 --> 724.40]  to write.
+[724.40 --> 727.40]  Yes, I am reading off the script.
+[727.40 --> 736.40]  Yeah, so I would, I would, before we proceed to the musical, yeah, we need to acknowledge
+[736.40 --> 740.40]  someone who is unable to be here with us tonight.
+[740.40 --> 746.40]  Someone who brought an incredible amount of musical impact to the church here at Emmanuel.
+[746.40 --> 756.40]  Yeah, for those of you who don't know Dave Alexander, he passed away approximately one year ago from
+[756.40 --> 761.40]  ALS at far, far too young an age.
+[761.40 --> 769.40]  And, yeah, our heartfelt thoughts continue to go out to Juanita and the kids and all the surrounding family.
+[769.40 --> 776.40]  Dave was one of the worship leaders here at Emmanuel and also acted as choir director from time to time.
+[776.40 --> 783.40]  I didn't know Dave personally, yet at his celebration of life, I found myself getting emotional.
+[783.40 --> 787.40]  As a young boy, I was amazed how this guy could play the piano.
+[787.40 --> 791.40]  How many times is he going to change key, I thought to myself.
+[791.40 --> 797.40]  Did he write the chords down or did he just do that on the top of his head?
+[797.40 --> 800.40]  My guess was the latter.
+[800.40 --> 807.40]  I have fond memories playing bassoon in the orchestra for a cantata Dave was directing right here in this very space.
+[807.40 --> 813.40]  Before rehearsal, he would ask me to play a few notes on the bassoon because he loved the sound of it.
+[813.40 --> 818.40]  He was fond of many instruments though, as many of you know.
+[818.40 --> 828.40]  About three years ago, when we first formed the choir here at Emmanuel, Dave joined us right here on the stage in his wheelchair.
+[828.40 --> 832.40]  Afterwards, he commented,
+[832.40 --> 837.40]  I felt like I was part of the choir.
+[837.40 --> 840.40]  And he preached that Sunday.
+[840.40 --> 842.40]  Yeah.
+[842.40 --> 847.40]  So, yeah, we remember and we move forward.
+[847.40 --> 864.40]  At this time, before we dedicate the service to God through prayer, I ask that you all turn off your cell phones, pagers, anything I will make any noise to disrupt the musical.
+[864.40 --> 869.40]  After the prayer, we will begin the musical.
+[869.40 --> 874.40]  And I ask that you save your applause to the very end.
+[874.40 --> 875.40]  Thank you.
+[875.40 --> 878.40]  Now, John Folkerts will lead us in the prayer.
+[878.40 --> 884.40]  Shall we pray?
+[884.40 --> 891.40]  Heavenly Father, we bow our heads before you tonight.
+[891.40 --> 899.40]  We come here to adore you, to honor you, Lord, and to give you praise through music.
+[899.40 --> 902.40]  Lord, we thank you for these opportunities.
+[902.40 --> 905.40]  We thank you that we may come here together.
+[905.40 --> 909.40]  We thank you, Lord, for the gift of music.
+[909.40 --> 911.40]  We thank you for the gift of voices.
+[911.40 --> 917.40]  And we pray, Lord, that we may honor you as we use these gifts tonight.
+[917.40 --> 926.40]  And, Lord, for those of us who here are listening also, we pray that you would open our hearts and that we, too, may hear the words that are being spoken and sung.
+[926.40 --> 936.40]  And that together, Lord, we may praise you and give you all the glory and honor as we celebrate the joy of Christmas, the birth of your son, Jesus.
+[936.40 --> 939.40]  Lord, we thank you for your gift to us.
+[939.40 --> 943.40]  And we pray, Lord, that tonight you would accept our gifts to you also.
+[943.40 --> 946.40]  We pray this, Lord, in your name.
+[946.40 --> 947.40]  Amen.
+[966.40 --> 969.40]  We pray, Lord, we thank you for the gift of hugs.
+[977.40 --> 978.40]  Amen.
+[979.40 --> 983.40]  Amen.
+[983.40 --> 984.40]  Amen.
+[984.40 --> 986.40]  Amen.
+[992.40 --> 993.40]  Amen.
+[993.40 --> 1019.56]  Joy to the world, joy to the world, joy to the world,
+[1019.56 --> 1029.56]  joy to the world, the Lord has come.
+[1029.56 --> 1034.56]  Far by the sheep we watched at night,
+[1034.56 --> 1039.56]  black tidings brought an angel bright,
+[1039.56 --> 1047.56]  how great our joy, joy, joy, joy.
+[1049.56 --> 1059.56]  Praise be the Lord in Babylon high.
+[1059.56 --> 1063.56]  Where shall he once so he did say,
+[1063.56 --> 1077.56]  in Bethlehem today, how great our joy, joy, joy, joy.
+[1077.56 --> 1083.56]  Praise be the Lord in heaven high.
+[1083.56 --> 1088.56]  Thank you and praise be the Lord.
+[1088.56 --> 1093.56]  Hail and shield.
+[1093.56 --> 1103.00]  Feel sehen e His answer how great our joy, joy, joy, joy, joy.
+[1103.00 --> 1104.00]  Chant.
+[1133.00 --> 1159.80]  not
+[1163.00 --> 1191.26]  Joy to the world, the Lord is come, let earth receive her King, let every heart prepare Him room, and heaven and nature sing, and heaven and nature sing, and heaven and earth, let nature sing.
+[1191.26 --> 1221.24]  We'll bring our joy, we'll bring our joy, joy to the earth, the Savior rings, let all their golden songs and blood, their songs and blood,
+[1221.26 --> 1240.26]  the fields and ponds, the hills and plains, repeat the sounding joy, repeat the sounding joy.
+[1240.26 --> 1256.26]  Joy to the world, the Lord has come.
+[1256.26 --> 1268.74]  Joy to the Lord, the Lord has come.
+[1269.56 --> 1275.30]  Joy has dawned and today we celebrate God's great gift of love to all.
+[1275.30 --> 1287.22]  But to Old Testament Israel, the hope of a brighter tomorrow, the promise of a joyful future, seemed an elusive dream.
+[1287.22 --> 1297.46]  For 400 years, God's chosen people languished in bondage, longing for the day when the promised Messiah would come to deliver them.
+[1298.20 --> 1307.48]  The prophet Isaiah had assured them that though they were a people walking in darkness, a great light would eventually shine upon them.
+[1307.48 --> 1325.92]  A child would be born, a son given, and the government would be upon his shoulders, and he would be called Wonderful, Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, the Prince of Peace.
+[1325.92 --> 1332.40]  Anguish and weeping may endure for a night, but joy comes in the morning.
+[1332.40 --> 1344.66]  Joy, there'll be joy, joy, joy, joy, joy, joy, joy.
+[1344.66 --> 1357.78]  There'll be joy, there'll be joy, there'll be joy, there'll be joy in the morning of the day.
+[1357.84 --> 1361.92]  There'll be joy in the morning of the day.
+[1361.92 --> 1366.30]  For the bread of the dog, the good Lord, his is gone.
+[1366.46 --> 1370.12]  There'll be joy, joy, of the day.
+[1370.12 --> 1375.76]  And the glory, glory, glory of the Lord will shine.
+[1375.76 --> 1387.12]  And the glory, glory, glory of the Lord will bring the truth divine.
+[1387.58 --> 1395.60]  Joyful, joyful, we adore thee, God of glory, Lord of love.
+[1395.60 --> 1405.60]  Hearts unfold like flowers before thee, O pray to the Son of God.
+[1411.60 --> 1418.60]  There'll be joy, joy, joy, joy, joy, joy, joy, joy.
+[1418.60 --> 1425.60]  There'll be joy in the morning, there'll be joy in the morning of the dead.
+[1426.60 --> 1430.82]  And the bright, dark, and the dark is gone.
+[1431.02 --> 1433.60]  There'll be joy, joy, joy.
+[1433.60 --> 1435.60]  There'll be joy, joy, joy, joy.
+[1435.60 --> 1439.60]  There'll be joy, joy, joy.
+[1439.60 --> 1442.60]  There'll be joy, joy.
+[1442.60 --> 1444.60]  And the beauty of et Quality God has Pens чуть.
+[1444.60 --> 1445.44]  Cheren colored rocks
+[1445.44 --> 1446.60]  Have sweetest Head être爱親 with you and may be'?
+[1446.60 --> 1448.60]  Our sweet heart.
+[1448.60 --> 1449.60]  Have sweetest Head olla.
+[1449.60 --> 1451.60]  How sweet is it,笑ily cross upon ayeah?
+[1451.60 --> 1454.60]  Planning my life in the light ofère,
+[1454.60 --> 1455.60]  to be restored.
+[1455.60 --> 1456.60]  And the beauty of such 대단 connais.
+[1456.60 --> 1457.60]  A緒 of wiederke può peon,
+[1457.60 --> 1459.40]  all say, that Gonzalo,
+[1459.40 --> 1460.40]  It's the hazır gestion année.
+[1460.40 --> 1461.60]  In the victory of desire.
+[1461.60 --> 1462.60]  What request —
+[1462.60 --> 1463.60]  Hy Zwege it ties читają with his second show
+[1463.60 --> 1464.60]  Year and June.
+[1464.60 --> 1465.60]  Sounds we divorced.
+[1465.60 --> 1466.54]  They're glad to learn,
+[1466.54 --> 1467.80]  White Untiecul wise Deigent white knight.
+[1467.80 --> 1474.80]  And the glory, glory, glory of the Lord will shine.
+[1474.80 --> 1485.80]  The glory, glory, glory of the Lord will bring the truth divine.
+[1485.80 --> 1510.80]  Let the glory, glory, glory of the Lord will bring the truth divine.
+[1515.80 --> 1521.80]  Isaiah prophesied that a virgin would conceive and give birth to Emmanuel.
+[1521.80 --> 1530.80]  In God's perfect timing, a young maiden named Mary, who was engaged to a man named Joseph, a descendant of King David,
+[1530.80 --> 1535.80]  was chosen by God to become the mother of the promised Messiah.
+[1535.80 --> 1544.80]  And so it came to be that Caesar Augustus issued a decree that a census should be taken of the entire Roman world.
+[1544.80 --> 1550.80]  Mary and Joseph went up from the town of Nazareth to Bethlehem, the town of David.
+[1550.80 --> 1556.80]  And while they were there, the time came for the baby to be born.
+[1556.80 --> 1567.80]  Born a son. She wrapped him in cloths and placed him in a manger, for there had been no room for them in the inn.
+[1567.80 --> 1569.80]  Mary had a baby, my Lord.
+[1569.80 --> 1573.80]  Mary had a baby, my Lord.
+[1573.80 --> 1577.80]  Mary had a baby, my Lord.
+[1577.80 --> 1585.80]  Mary had a baby, my Lord.
+[1585.80 --> 1593.80]  Mary had a baby, my Lord.
+[1593.80 --> 1615.80]  Mary had a baby, my Lord.
+[1615.80 --> 1625.80]  Mary had a baby, my Lord.
+[1625.80 --> 1630.60]  did she name him
+[1636.68 --> 1643.72]  did
+[1644.36 --> 1656.12]  is
+[1656.52 --> 1670.12]  is
+[1670.12 --> 1685.08]  is
+[1685.08 --> 1708.52]  oh
+[1708.52 --> 1710.52]  Oh
+[1738.52 --> 1740.52]  Oh
+[1768.52 --> 1770.52]  Oh
+[1795.56 --> 1797.56]  It was a quiet night
+[1798.52 --> 1800.02]  Just an ordinary night
+[1800.02 --> 1802.38]  There were shepherds
+[1802.38 --> 1804.70]  Keeping watch over their sheep
+[1804.70 --> 1806.74]  On a Judean hillside
+[1806.74 --> 1808.52]  Outside of Bethlehem
+[1808.52 --> 1814.88]  When an angel appeared to the shepherds
+[1814.88 --> 1818.02]  And the glory of the Lord shone around them
+[1818.02 --> 1819.60]  They were terrified
+[1819.60 --> 1822.14]  The angel said to them
+[1822.14 --> 1824.26]  Do not be afraid
+[1824.26 --> 1827.60]  For I bring you good news of great joy
+[1827.60 --> 1828.64]  Today
+[1828.64 --> 1830.46]  In the town of David
+[1830.46 --> 1832.92]  A savior has been born
+[1832.92 --> 1835.82]  He is Christ the Lord
+[1835.82 --> 1837.70]  You will find
+[1837.70 --> 1840.56]  The baby wrapped in cloths
+[1840.56 --> 1841.86]  Lying in a manger
+[1841.86 --> 1843.44]  Suddenly
+[1843.44 --> 1846.14]  A great company of the heavenly host
+[1846.14 --> 1847.64]  Appeared with the angel
+[1847.64 --> 1849.84]  Praising God and saying
+[1849.84 --> 1852.46]  Glory to God in the highest
+[1852.46 --> 1853.40]  And on earth
+[1853.40 --> 1854.38]  Peace to all
+[1854.38 --> 1865.82]  Joy has gone
+[1865.82 --> 1867.96]  The angels are singing
+[1867.96 --> 1869.82]  Christ is born
+[1869.82 --> 1871.78]  This holy night
+[1871.78 --> 1875.94]  Gloria in excelsis day
+[1875.94 --> 1877.86]  Welcome to the child
+[1877.86 --> 1878.94]  The king forever
+[1878.94 --> 1880.10]  The king forever
+[1880.10 --> 1882.94]  Hope has come tonight
+[1882.94 --> 1886.32]  In Bethlehem
+[1886.32 --> 1889.20]  Go worship the newborn king
+[1889.20 --> 1898.84]  Joy has done
+[1898.84 --> 1901.06]  The heavens are ringing
+[1901.06 --> 1904.74]  Christ is born in a humble stall
+[1904.74 --> 1908.96]  Gloria in excelsis day
+[1908.96 --> 1910.60]  By the child
+[1910.60 --> 1910.62]  By the child
+[1910.62 --> 1912.98]  Crying in a manger
+[1912.98 --> 1913.66]  Peace
+[1913.66 --> 1916.74]  Has come tonight
+[1916.74 --> 1919.08]  In Bethlehem
+[1919.08 --> 1925.28]  Go worship the newborn king
+[1925.28 --> 1929.76]  For to reign in us forever
+[1929.76 --> 1933.80]  For to set his people free
+[1933.80 --> 1940.56]  Dear desire of every nation
+[1940.56 --> 1945.48]  Joy of every longing heart
+[1945.48 --> 1948.44]  Longing heart
+[1948.44 --> 1954.80]  Joy has done
+[1954.80 --> 1956.84]  The shepherds are bringing
+[1956.84 --> 1960.62]  Gifts of love, adoration, and praise
+[1960.62 --> 1990.60]  Gloria in excelsis day
+[1990.60 --> 1991.54]  Christ is born
+[1991.54 --> 1992.54]  Christ is born
+[1992.54 --> 1993.54]  Joy has done
+[1993.54 --> 2003.14]  The shepherds immediately left
+[2003.14 --> 2007.04]  And soon found Mary, Joseph, and the newborn baby
+[2007.04 --> 2009.24]  Who was lying in the manger
+[2009.24 --> 2012.08]  Just as the angel had told them
+[2012.08 --> 2015.54]  After offering their humble gifts
+[2015.54 --> 2017.68]  Of adoration and praise
+[2017.68 --> 2018.62]  They hurried off
+[2018.62 --> 2020.24]  They hurried off to spread the word
+[2020.24 --> 2021.54]  All they had witnessed
+[2021.54 --> 2023.68]  The angelic proclamation
+[2023.68 --> 2026.14]  The newborn child in the manger
+[2026.14 --> 2028.72]  The wonder of two young parents
+[2028.72 --> 2031.10]  Embracing their miraculous roles
+[2031.10 --> 2033.62]  In God's unfolding story
+[2033.62 --> 2036.82]  All who heard it
+[2036.82 --> 2040.24]  Were amazed at what the shepherds said
+[2040.24 --> 2042.92]  But Mary treasured up
+[2042.92 --> 2044.68]  All of these things
+[2044.68 --> 2047.26]  And pondered them in her heart
+[2047.26 --> 2053.12]  Jesus, joy of the highest heaven
+[2053.12 --> 2056.76]  Born as a little baby
+[2056.76 --> 2061.12]  Under a wondrous star
+[2061.12 --> 2067.02]  Like us, crying, he takes his first breath
+[2067.02 --> 2070.42]  Fell by his mother, helpless
+[2070.42 --> 2074.36]  Close to her meeting heart
+[2074.36 --> 2079.74]  Jesus, live in a lowly manger
+[2079.74 --> 2083.94]  Facing a world of dangers
+[2083.94 --> 2087.30]  Won't you turn me a stranger
+[2087.30 --> 2090.98]  Into a child of God
+[2090.98 --> 2096.84]  Jesus, live in a lowly manger
+[2096.84 --> 2101.08]  Facing a world of dangers
+[2101.08 --> 2104.32]  Come to turn me a stranger
+[2104.32 --> 2108.92]  Into a child of God
+[2108.92 --> 2122.98]  O Jesus, King of the highest heaven
+[2122.98 --> 2126.68]  Learning to take his first step
+[2126.68 --> 2130.28]  That he might play his life
+[2130.28 --> 2135.80]  Like us, knowing our smiles and sorrows
+[2135.80 --> 2139.12]  He shall know the way to follow
+[2139.12 --> 2142.76]  A way that is true and right
+[2142.76 --> 2148.16]  Jesus, take away every darkness
+[2148.16 --> 2151.52]  Standing my sinful footsteps
+[2151.52 --> 2155.44]  That I might in your goodness
+[2155.44 --> 2159.04]  Live as a child of God
+[2159.04 --> 2164.16]  Jesus, take away every darkness
+[2164.16 --> 2167.98]  Say my sinful footsteps
+[2167.98 --> 2171.48]  That I might in your goodness
+[2171.48 --> 2177.16]  Live as a child of God
+[2177.16 --> 2184.34]  A way in a manger
+[2184.34 --> 2189.30]  A friend for a friend
+[2189.30 --> 2194.00]  The little Lord Jesus
+[2194.00 --> 2199.18]  Lay down his sweet hand
+[2199.18 --> 2204.30]  The stars in the bright sky
+[2204.30 --> 2209.12]  Look down where he lay
+[2209.12 --> 2213.98]  The little Lord Jesus
+[2213.98 --> 2215.98]  As we
+[2215.98 --> 2221.98]  Onward Jesus
+[2221.98 --> 2226.98]  Joy of the highest heaven
+[2226.98 --> 2230.66]  Born as a little baby
+[2230.66 --> 2237.98]  Under a wondrous star
+[2237.98 --> 2239.98]  A way in a manger
+[2239.98 --> 2252.78]  After Jesus was born in Bethlehem
+[2252.78 --> 2254.70]  During the reign of King Herod
+[2254.70 --> 2256.80]  There were Magi from the east
+[2256.80 --> 2257.96]  Who came to Jerusalem
+[2257.96 --> 2258.80]  Asking
+[2258.80 --> 2261.30]  Where is the one who has been born
+[2261.30 --> 2262.38]  King of the Jews?
+[2262.98 --> 2265.26]  We have seen his star in the east
+[2265.26 --> 2267.26]  And have come to worship him
+[2267.26 --> 2268.76]  King Herod
+[2268.76 --> 2271.30]  Disturbed by this inquiry
+[2271.30 --> 2273.06]  Called together the chief priests
+[2273.06 --> 2274.36]  And teachers of the law
+[2274.36 --> 2276.54]  Asking them where the Christ
+[2276.54 --> 2277.44]  Was to be born
+[2277.44 --> 2279.58]  In Bethlehem of Judea
+[2279.58 --> 2280.82]  They replied
+[2280.82 --> 2283.26]  Quoting from the prophet Micah
+[2283.80 --> 2286.62]  Herod called the Magi secretly
+[2286.62 --> 2288.38]  And found out from them
+[2288.38 --> 2290.78]  The exact time the star had appeared
+[2290.78 --> 2293.08]  He sent them to Bethlehem
+[2293.08 --> 2293.60]  And said
+[2293.60 --> 2296.40]  Go and make a careful search
+[2296.40 --> 2297.22]  For the child
+[2297.22 --> 2299.12]  Then report to me
+[2299.12 --> 2300.80]  So that I too
+[2300.80 --> 2302.54]  May go and worship him
+[2302.54 --> 2304.88]  The Magi went on their way
+[2304.88 --> 2306.70]  And the star they had seen
+[2306.70 --> 2307.40]  In the east
+[2307.40 --> 2308.50]  Went before them
+[2308.50 --> 2310.34]  Until it stopped over the place
+[2310.34 --> 2311.92]  Where the child was
+[2311.92 --> 2313.88]  There they found Mary
+[2313.88 --> 2316.00]  With his mother Mary
+[2316.00 --> 2317.14]  There they found Jesus
+[2317.14 --> 2318.36]  With his mother Mary
+[2318.36 --> 2320.28]  They bowed down
+[2320.28 --> 2321.38]  And worshipped him
+[2321.38 --> 2322.96]  Opening their treasures
+[2322.96 --> 2323.98]  They presented him
+[2323.98 --> 2325.24]  With gifts of gold
+[2325.24 --> 2327.18]  Incense and myrrh
+[2327.18 --> 2339.24]  And the star of the morning
+[2339.24 --> 2341.66]  Dawn on our clock
+[2341.66 --> 2344.78]  They're set come to our ring
+[2344.78 --> 2347.48]  Star on the east
+[2347.48 --> 2350.52]  Horizon adorning
+[2350.52 --> 2352.94]  Guide where our infant
+[2352.94 --> 2356.10]  Redeemer is made
+[2356.10 --> 2362.10]  And where our redeemer is made
+[2362.10 --> 2366.26]  God shall we
+[2366.26 --> 2367.62]  Good shall we
+[2367.62 --> 2369.58]  Give us the devotion
+[2369.58 --> 2371.98]  Shall we reach
+[2371.98 --> 2375.58]  And we make offerings divine
+[2375.58 --> 2378.44]  Gems of the mountain
+[2378.44 --> 2381.22]  And pearls of the ocean
+[2381.22 --> 2384.10]  Learn from the forest
+[2384.10 --> 2387.22]  Myrrh or gold from the mine
+[2387.22 --> 2391.10]  Myrrh or gold from the mine
+[2391.10 --> 2393.10]  Myrrh or gold from the mine
+[2393.10 --> 2398.22]  What child is this
+[2398.22 --> 2401.10]  Who lay to rest
+[2401.10 --> 2406.10]  On Mary's lap is sleeping
+[2406.10 --> 2409.10]  Whom angels greet
+[2409.10 --> 2409.68]  Whom angels greet
+[2409.68 --> 2411.10]  With anthems sweet
+[2411.10 --> 2417.10]  While shepherds want our keeping
+[2417.10 --> 2423.10]  His praise is Christ the king
+[2423.10 --> 2424.10]  Whom shepherds gone
+[2424.10 --> 2426.10]  Whom shepherds gone
+[2426.10 --> 2428.10]  And angels sing
+[2428.10 --> 2430.10]  His days to bring him long
+[2430.10 --> 2434.10]  The thin and son of Mary
+[2434.10 --> 2441.10]  The thin and son of Mary
+[2441.10 --> 2449.10]  So break him insens
+[2449.10 --> 2451.10]  Gold and murder
+[2451.10 --> 2455.10]  The pleasant king to own him
+[2455.10 --> 2462.10]  The king of kings salvation
+[2462.10 --> 2467.10]  Brings that loving heart's enthroned
+[2467.10 --> 2468.10]  Him
+[2468.10 --> 2474.10]  Raise, raise that song on high
+[2474.10 --> 2475.10]  The virgin saints
+[2475.10 --> 2476.10]  The virgin saints
+[2476.10 --> 2477.10]  The lullaby
+[2477.10 --> 2481.10]  Joy, joy, for Christ is born
+[2481.10 --> 2483.10]  The king, the son of Mary
+[2483.10 --> 2485.10]  For Christ is born
+[2485.10 --> 2498.10]  The king, the son of Mary
+[2498.10 --> 2504.10]  Brightest and best of the stars of the morning
+[2504.10 --> 2525.10]  Guide where our Redeemer is made
+[2525.10 --> 2529.10]  The Christmas story is a story of joy
+[2529.10 --> 2532.10]  The Lord has done great things
+[2532.10 --> 2535.10]  And we are filled with joy
+[2535.10 --> 2536.10]  Let the nations be glad
+[2536.10 --> 2538.10]  And sing for joy
+[2538.10 --> 2541.10]  The joy of the Lord is my strength
+[2541.10 --> 2543.10]  Those who sow in tears
+[2543.10 --> 2546.10]  Will reap with songs of joy
+[2546.10 --> 2548.10]  Shout for joy to the Lord
+[2548.10 --> 2549.10]  All the earth
+[2549.10 --> 2552.10]  This is a story of great joy
+[2552.10 --> 2555.10]  It is a fulfillment of God's promise
+[2555.10 --> 2557.10]  To end the night of suffering
+[2557.10 --> 2560.10]  With the dawn of redeeming light
+[2562.10 --> 2564.10]  The joy of the holy with the holy with the holy with the holy way
+[2564.10 --> 2565.10]  Through your household
+[2565.10 --> 2582.14]  GLOR Your children
+[2582.14 --> 2596.14]  Gloria in excelsis Deo
+[2600.14 --> 2603.14]  Joy has dawned upon the world,
+[2603.14 --> 2607.14]  Promise from creation,
+[2607.14 --> 2611.14]  God's salvation now and firm,
+[2611.14 --> 2614.14]  Bold for every nation,
+[2614.14 --> 2618.14]  Not with fanfares from above,
+[2618.14 --> 2622.14]  Not with scenes of glory,
+[2622.14 --> 2626.14]  But a humble gift of love,
+[2626.14 --> 2632.14]  Jesus born of Mary.
+[2632.14 --> 2641.14]  Sounds of wonder fill the sky,
+[2641.14 --> 2645.14]  With the songs of angels,
+[2645.14 --> 2649.14]  Angels save the mighty Prince of Life,
+[2649.14 --> 2654.14]  Shelters in a stable,
+[2654.14 --> 2658.14]  Hands that set each star in place,
+[2658.14 --> 2664.14]  Shape the earth in darkness.
+[2664.14 --> 2669.14]  And sing now to a mother's breast,
+[2669.14 --> 2673.14]  All wonderful and help,
+[2673.14 --> 2677.14]  Come to death of heaven and sea,
+[2677.14 --> 2681.14]  In whose birth the angels say,
+[2681.14 --> 2685.14]  Come adore all men to me,
+[2685.14 --> 2690.14]  Christ the Lord, the new one King.
+[2690.14 --> 2702.14]  Gloria in excelsis Deo
+[2702.14 --> 2711.14]  Gloria in excelsis Deo
+[2711.14 --> 2715.14]  Gloria in excelsis Deo
+[2715.14 --> 2719.14]  Gloria in excelsis Deo
+[2719.14 --> 2721.14]  judgment
+[2721.14 --> 2722.14]  Maui
+[2722.14 --> 2724.06]  IBravo
+[2724.06 --> 2733.30]  Shepherds bowing for the Lamb, Gazing at the glory,
+[2733.30 --> 2743.62]  Gives of them from distant lands, Prophesize a story.
+[2743.62 --> 2751.22]  Hallelujah! Hallelujah! Hallelujah!
+[2751.22 --> 2755.62]  In excelsis Deo!
+[2755.62 --> 2780.02]  To all our love, Gloria, Gloria, In excelsis Deo!
+[2781.22 --> 2785.62]  Thank you.
+[2785.62 --> 2790.02]  Thank you.
+[2790.02 --> 2794.42]  Thank you.
+[2794.42 --> 2798.82]  Thank you.
+[2798.82 --> 2803.22]  Thank you.
+[2803.22 --> 2807.62]  Thank you.
+[2807.62 --> 2809.62]  Thank you.
+[2809.62 --> 2811.62]  Thank you.
+[2811.62 --> 2813.62]  Thank you.
+[2813.62 --> 2821.62]  With angels, shepherds, and magi, we celebrate the joyous news that the Messiah has been born.
+[2821.62 --> 2826.02]  Joy has dawned upon the world.
+[2826.02 --> 2828.02]  Joy to the world.
+[2828.02 --> 2830.02]  The Lord has come.
+[2830.02 --> 2833.02]  Let earth receive her King.
+[2833.02 --> 2840.02]  Good Christian friends, rejoice with heart and soul and voice, for Christ is born today.
+[2840.02 --> 2844.42]  Go, tell it on the mountain.
+[2844.42 --> 2848.42]  Shout it from the mountain tops, Jesus Christ is born.
+[2848.42 --> 2852.82]  Good Christian friends, rejoice with heart and soul and voice, give me dear to what we say, Jesus
+[2852.82 --> 2857.22]  Christ is born today.
+[2857.22 --> 2862.82]  All sing as before and bow, and He is in the manger now.
+[2862.82 --> 2864.82]  Christ is born today.
+[2864.82 --> 2866.82]  Christ is born today.
+[2866.82 --> 2868.82]  Christ is born today.
+[2868.82 --> 2872.82]  Good Christian friends, rejoice with heart and soul and heart and soul and heart and soul and heart and soul.
+[2872.82 --> 2898.82]  Now Him, hear the hear of endless bliss, Jesus Christ was born for days, Jesus Christ was born for days.
+[2898.82 --> 2901.86]  Jesus Christ was born for this.
+[2902.24 --> 2908.38]  He has opened heaven's door and we are blessed forevermore.
+[2908.78 --> 2911.94]  Christ was born for this.
+[2912.60 --> 2917.40]  Christ was born for this.
+[2923.94 --> 2928.10]  Joy has gone, the angels are singing.
+[2928.10 --> 2931.82]  Christ is born this holy night.
+[2932.30 --> 2935.96]  Gloria in excelsis day.
+[2935.96 --> 2939.88]  Welcome the child, the king forever.
+[2940.18 --> 2945.86]  Hope has come tonight in Bethlehem.
+[2945.96 --> 2950.78]  Go, worship the newborn king.
+[2952.68 --> 2956.36]  Born to reign in us forever.
+[2956.36 --> 2962.08]  For to set his people free.
+[2962.08 --> 2967.14]  Dear desire of every nation.
+[2967.14 --> 2970.36]  Joy of every longing.
+[2970.36 --> 2972.36]  Joy of every longing.
+[2972.36 --> 2974.08]  Joy of every longing.
+[2974.08 --> 2976.08]  Joy of every longing.
+[2976.08 --> 2978.08]  Joy of every longing.
+[2978.08 --> 2980.08]  Joy of every longing.
+[2980.08 --> 2983.14]  Go, tell it on the mountain.
+[2983.14 --> 2987.08]  Over the hills and everywhere.
+[2987.08 --> 2990.80]  Go, tell it on the mountain.
+[2990.80 --> 2994.80]  That Jesus Christ is born.
+[2994.80 --> 2996.52]  Joy of every longing.
+[2996.52 --> 3000.52]  How shepherds can't fear marching.
+[3000.52 --> 3004.24]  For silent flocks by night.
+[3004.24 --> 3008.24]  Behold, throughout the heavens.
+[3008.24 --> 3009.96]  There's a joy of every longing.
+[3009.96 --> 3011.96]  There's a joy of holy love.
+[3011.96 --> 3013.96]  Love, Lord.
+[3013.96 --> 3015.96]  Love, Lord.
+[3015.96 --> 3018.96]  Go, tell it on the mountain.
+[3018.96 --> 3023.96]  Over the hills and everywhere.
+[3023.96 --> 3026.96]  Go, tell it on the mountain.
+[3026.96 --> 3038.68]  That Jesus Christ is born.
+[3038.68 --> 3040.40]  God, love, Lord.
+[3040.40 --> 3042.40]  And the shepherds fear and tremble.
+[3042.40 --> 3045.40]  When low above the earth.
+[3045.40 --> 3046.40]  The love of the earth.
+[3046.40 --> 3047.40]  The love of the earth.
+[3047.40 --> 3049.40]  And the forest.
+[3049.40 --> 3054.40]  That him our Savior's birth.
+[3054.40 --> 3055.12]  God, love, Lord.
+[3055.12 --> 3056.12]  Love, Lord.
+[3056.12 --> 3058.12]  Love, Lord.
+[3058.12 --> 3062.12]  Go, tell it on the mountain.
+[3062.12 --> 3066.98]  Over the hills and everywhere.
+[3066.98 --> 3070.12]  Go, tell it on the mountain.
+[3070.12 --> 3074.90]  That Jesus Christ is born.
+[3074.90 --> 3078.12]  Joy has gone to the angel's song.
+[3078.12 --> 3092.12]  that jesus christ is
+[3108.12 --> 3121.96]  excellent job mark why don't you just stay right here wow right thank you for being here
+[3127.56 --> 3129.32]  let's thank the choir one more time
+[3129.32 --> 3141.56]  we also wanted to take this opportunity and say thank you to eric on the piano and ken his helper
+[3149.88 --> 3154.68]  and then of course to our illustrious director mark thank you very much for all the work that
+[3154.68 --> 3168.68]  you've put into this tonight
+[3175.72 --> 3182.68]  and then as you're taking your seats one more time for the kids right
+[3184.68 --> 3192.36]  and now i don't know about you but it's bedtime for mine so
+[3193.96 --> 3199.56]  i'm going to close the evening with a word of prayer and then we're going to head on our way
+[3199.56 --> 3208.36]  into this last week before christmas and so indeed as we have heard and sung tonight joy is come in
+[3208.36 --> 3213.88]  the lord jesus christ and it's our prayer that tonight and in the rest of this christmas season
+[3213.88 --> 3220.76]  you will experience more and more the truth of who jesus is that he might impact your heart
+[3220.76 --> 3227.40]  this season if you are wondering about jesus if you have questions or you like to connect with
+[3227.40 --> 3232.68]  someone you can grab me following the service or you can contact our church office through the week
+[3232.68 --> 3239.80]  and i'm happy to have any conversations or prayers or notes with you in that regard as we go would you
+[3239.80 --> 3242.04]  pray with me let's join our hearts together in prayer
+[3246.68 --> 3256.84]  indeed lord god joy to the world we praise your name tonight for the miracle of christmas for the
+[3256.84 --> 3264.44]  miracle of the incarnation of god taking on flesh and dwelling among us
+[3264.44 --> 3274.60]  for the miracle that appears to us in meekness and in majesty for the miracle that appears to us and
+[3274.60 --> 3283.56]  caused the shepherds and the whole town of bethlehem to rejoice in praise of god at work in the world
+[3283.56 --> 3292.68]  and so we go now this week lord god having given you praise with our worship and our songs that we might
+[3292.68 --> 3299.24]  now give you praise with our lives and so lord jesus go with us in the power of your spirit
+[3300.44 --> 3304.36]  that we might minister your mercy and your grace to a world in need
+[3304.36 --> 3310.20]  there's so much happening in the world right now lord god
+[3311.88 --> 3320.92]  reasons to celebrate and reasons to mourn reasons to rejoice and reasons to cry out in anguish
+[3322.76 --> 3332.12]  father god into all of those places and spaces we now go may we be ambassadors of your light to the world
+[3332.12 --> 3347.16]  the world send us out now as light in the world to dispel the darkness in the name of jesus christ we pray amen amen
+[3350.36 --> 3355.64]  sorry i'm hope i'm not dragging it on here but um yeah i just wanted to say thank you for all coming out
+[3355.64 --> 3362.84]  and uh in uh this era of covet i appreciate it i've been waiting to about almost three years to do this
+[3362.84 --> 3367.56]  musical and kovac keeps on getting in the way and i was we had the online sign i'm going so i was all
+[3367.56 --> 3371.96]  excited when i saw people signing up and people kept on signing up so i'm like oh yes yes yes this is
+[3371.96 --> 3377.32]  going to be good because the ultimate goal was to have everybody's ears hear the music because it's
+[3377.32 --> 3384.28]  great music lloyd larson is fantastic arranger so praise praise be to god for him so thank you and all the good night
+[3385.64 --> 3386.02]  like

Listless Wandering or Lavish Wonder (Sermon)_summary.txt

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+• The book of Habakkuk continues to be discussed
+• Discussion of pronouncing the name "Habakkuk"
+• Recap of last week's sermon on the problem of evil and God's sovereignty
+• Background information on the prophet Habakkuk, who wrote around 600 BC in Judah before the Babylonian exile
+• Habakkuk sees injustice and evil happening globally and locally due to the actions of foreign oppressors and local leaders
+• The book of Habakkuk is a poetic dialogue between God and Habakkuk's complaints and responses
+• Reading from Habakkuk 2:2-20, where God responds to Habakkuk's second complaint about using an evil people (Babylonians) to punish the people of Judah
+• Explanation of God's response in Habakkuk 2, which emphasizes patience and trust in God despite apparent injustices
+• Disgrace will cover someone's glory due to their violence towards Lebanon and destruction of animals
+• The Lord is in his holy temple, and all the earth should be silent before him
+• A story about a father and son walking through a park illustrates two different paths leading to the same destination
+• Chapter 2 helps reveal that God's goal is His glory and our experience of it
+• Two avenues are used to reach this end: a survey of history from beginning to new beginning, and a comparison with lesser or misplaced glories (idolatry)
+• The Bible verse "For the earth will be filled with the knowledge of the glory of the Lord as waters cover the sea" from Habakkuk is discussed.
+• The concept of the "knowledge" in Hebrew is explained to have a depth and intimacy, referring to a relational characteristic and a covenant with God.
+• The glory of the Lord is described as the public display of God's holiness, perfection, and righteousness, including His distinctness and set-apartness.
+• Holiness for both God and humans is discussed as an ontological and existential reality, involving being changed and transformed by experiencing the glory of God.
+• The goal of this transformation is to change the world, making it "filled" with the knowledge of God's glory.
+• The glory of God will be everywhere
+• God's goal in creation is for him to be glorified
+• It's not about us, but rather God's glory and worship
+• History is about God's going public over the whole earth that we might experience him
+• We are created to have a relationship with God, and when we make it all about him, we find our joy and purpose and meaning and power
+• The glory of God is the human being fully alive
+• To live as a human being fully alive is to live for the glory of God
+• Anything else in life that is not centered on God's glory is a cheap substitute or lesser glory.
+• The dangers of consumerism and its tendency to lead to dissatisfaction
+• The pursuit of status, position, and power as a lesser glory that can corrupt and lead to ruin
+• The misuse of authority and power, including the abuse of government, church leadership, and parental authority
+• Taking advantage of people, particularly in exploitative relationships or behaviors
+• Reducing others to mere tools for one's own purposes, rather than valuing them as ends in themselves
+• The lesser glories exchanged for the greater glory of God
+• Idolatry and placing human creation in the place of God
+• God's desire to have his people reflect his glory
+• Humanity's rejection of God and choosing instead their own desires
+• God's promise and redemption through Abraham, Israel, and ultimately Jesus Christ
+• The culmination of God's revelation in Jesus Christ and its continuation through the church
+• The return of Jesus Christ and the establishment of God's kingdom on earth
+• The glory of God being present with man, and the new Jerusalem coming without a temple
+• Waiting for God's promise to be fulfilled, even when it seems delayed or challenging
+• Living by faith in a world filled with evil and injustice
+• Turning from lesser glories to experience the majesty of God's greatest glory

Listless Wandering or Lavish Wonder (Sermon)_transcript.txt

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+[0.00 --> 14.80]  This morning we are continuing in our series looking at the book of Habakkuk.
+[15.26 --> 20.94]  And before I read, and we're going to read this morning from Habakkuk 2, starting at verse 2 through the end of the chapter.
+[20.94 --> 32.50]  Before I read, let me just say I really appreciate everyone's engagement and comments and conversations that are started that come out of these messages.
+[33.56 --> 43.22]  But let me also say I was really surprised how in a sermon on the problem of evil and the sovereignty of God, even in the face of that last week,
+[43.28 --> 48.06]  the most controversial thing I said was how to pronounce Habakkuk.
+[48.06 --> 57.62]  Even this morning, someone sent me a text of a YouTube video that supposedly tells you how to properly say it, and the YouTube video is wrong.
+[58.10 --> 58.68]  Sorry, Clary.
+[63.28 --> 70.42]  Point is, I do appreciate the engagement and the chance to have these sorts of follow-up conversations,
+[70.42 --> 73.38]  especially in times like this and this season.
+[73.38 --> 78.12]  We don't get that in the same way, and so I do cherish it.
+[78.76 --> 86.10]  So I want to invite you to grab a Bible, maybe grab a notebook, whatever the case may be, to help you in our engagement this morning.
+[86.88 --> 90.70]  We're going to read from Habakkuk 2, starting at verse 2.
+[90.70 --> 100.84]  Now, before I begin, maybe this is your first time joining us, or you forgot already what we covered last week,
+[100.88 --> 103.98]  but just a quick recap about Habakkuk.
+[104.46 --> 111.54]  Habakkuk is a prophet in Judah before the people of God are taken by the Babylonians into exile.
+[112.94 --> 118.10]  Habakkuk is living and writing sometime around 600, 605 BC.
+[118.10 --> 125.74]  Now, the Babylonians, who once acted as Israel's allies, have now turned against them,
+[125.74 --> 132.42]  and in fact, as we saw last week, are being used by God to bring judgment on Israel and Judah
+[132.42 --> 136.92]  because the ways that they have acted not of God.
+[136.92 --> 144.00]  So Habakkuk sees the injustice and evil that is happening globally with foreign oppressors and war,
+[144.00 --> 152.26]  and Habakkuk sees injustice and evil happening locally with abuses of power and poverty and selfishness
+[152.26 --> 158.46]  as the political and religious leaders of his day aren't acting faithfully in obedience to God.
+[158.46 --> 168.38]  Now, the book of Habakkuk is set up for us as a poetic dialogue between the prophet and God.
+[168.38 --> 177.66]  And it goes back and forth between what some have called, and maybe your Bibles call it as the editors have put headings in places,
+[178.16 --> 182.82]  back and forth between Habakkuk's complaints and then God's responses.
+[182.82 --> 192.50]  Today, I'm going to read God's response to Habakkuk's second complaint.
+[193.54 --> 200.52]  Now, Habakkuk, if you recall, has just balked at the idea that God would use an evil people, the Babylonians,
+[200.62 --> 204.20]  to publish a lesser evil, the people of Judah.
+[204.80 --> 207.78]  And Habakkuk doesn't understand why in the midst of that,
+[207.78 --> 212.58]  that God would appear to be silent and let bad things happen to good people.
+[213.38 --> 217.98]  That was the digging and exploring and thinking we did last week.
+[218.06 --> 221.28]  You can check on the YouTube channel if you want to find that.
+[222.30 --> 225.82]  Now, Habakkuk is pretty brazen in his complaint, right?
+[225.86 --> 230.08]  He finishes his second complaint by saying effectively, and I'm paraphrasing him here,
+[230.14 --> 230.42]  he's saying,
+[230.42 --> 231.42]  I'm here, God.
+[232.02 --> 232.84]  I'm waiting.
+[233.10 --> 234.22]  I'm not going anywhere.
+[234.50 --> 235.30]  I will wait.
+[235.74 --> 236.82]  You answer.
+[238.36 --> 241.12]  What we're going to read is God's answer.
+[242.00 --> 243.26]  Let me read it with you.
+[245.26 --> 246.66]  The Lord replied,
+[248.26 --> 253.96]  Write down the revelation and make it plain on tablets so that a herald may run with it.
+[254.84 --> 258.12]  For the revelation awaits an appointed time.
+[258.12 --> 261.68]  It speaks of an end and will not prove false.
+[262.46 --> 265.38]  Though it linger, wait for it.
+[265.98 --> 268.64]  It will certainly come and will not delay.
+[270.20 --> 272.32]  See, he is puffed up.
+[272.40 --> 277.78]  His desires are not upright, but the righteous will live by his faith.
+[278.94 --> 280.82]  Indeed, wine betrays him.
+[280.90 --> 282.64]  He is arrogant and never at rest.
+[282.94 --> 287.12]  Because he is as greedy as the grave and like death is never satisfied,
+[287.12 --> 293.54]  he gathers to himself all the nations and takes captive all the peoples.
+[293.54 --> 299.92]  Will not all of them taunt him with ridicule and scorn,
+[300.08 --> 300.42]  saying,
+[301.02 --> 306.34]  Woe to him who piles up stolen goods and makes himself wealthy by extortion.
+[306.90 --> 309.00]  How long must this go on?
+[310.04 --> 312.44]  Will not your debtors suddenly arise?
+[312.90 --> 314.98]  Will they not wake up and make you tremble?
+[315.28 --> 316.94]  Then you will become their victim.
+[316.94 --> 322.42]  Because you have plundered many nations, the peoples who are left will plunder you.
+[323.48 --> 328.58]  For you have shed man's blood and you have destroyed the lands and cities and everyone in them.
+[330.26 --> 337.94]  Woe to him who builds his realm by unjust gain to set his nest on high to escape the clutches of ruin.
+[337.94 --> 345.12]  You have plotted the ruin of many peoples, shaming your own house and forfeiting your life.
+[346.04 --> 351.50]  The stones of the wall will cry out and the beams of the woodwork will echo it.
+[353.24 --> 358.22]  Woe to him who builds a city with bloodshed and establishes a town by crime.
+[358.90 --> 363.54]  Has not the Lord Almighty determined that the people's labor is only fuel for the fire,
+[363.64 --> 365.82]  that the nations exhaust themselves for nothing?
+[365.82 --> 373.72]  For the earth will be filled with the knowledge of the glory of the Lord as the waters cover the sea.
+[375.50 --> 380.64]  Woe to him who gives drink to his neighbors, pouring it from the wineskin till they are drunk,
+[380.84 --> 383.26]  so that they can gaze on their naked bodies.
+[383.90 --> 386.34]  You will be filled with shame instead of glory.
+[386.86 --> 388.02]  Now it is your turn.
+[388.38 --> 389.76]  Drink and be exposed.
+[389.76 --> 395.64]  The cup from the Lord's right hand is coming around to you and disgrace will cover your glory.
+[395.82 --> 403.90]  The violence you have done to Lebanon will overwhelm you and your destruction of animals will terrify you.
+[404.38 --> 406.22]  For you have shed man's blood.
+[406.34 --> 409.26]  You have destroyed the lands and cities and everyone in them.
+[409.26 --> 415.22]  Of what value is an idol, since a man has carved it?
+[415.78 --> 417.84]  Or an image that teaches lies?
+[418.60 --> 421.24]  For he who makes it trusts in his own creation.
+[421.60 --> 423.52]  He makes idols that cannot speak.
+[424.14 --> 429.44]  Woe to him who says to wood, come to life or to lifeless stone, wake up.
+[430.26 --> 431.28]  Can it give guidance?
+[431.28 --> 434.38]  It's covered with silver and gold.
+[434.82 --> 436.72]  There is no breath in it.
+[437.76 --> 440.70]  But the Lord is in his holy temple.
+[441.74 --> 445.62]  Let all the earth be silent before him.
+[446.62 --> 447.92]  This is the word of the Lord.
+[447.92 --> 459.64]  A little while ago I was going out for a walk with my son Malachi.
+[459.90 --> 462.40]  We were playing at a park or something.
+[462.48 --> 463.72]  I don't exactly remember where.
+[464.20 --> 467.66]  And we came up to a place where the path split off.
+[467.66 --> 471.64]  And I knew that eventually the path joined up again.
+[471.98 --> 476.88]  Again on the other side of the bush or the forest or whatever that we were walking in.
+[477.10 --> 480.20]  And that it was really only like 30 feet away.
+[480.34 --> 484.48]  Yet you could not see the place from where we were where the paths joined together.
+[485.32 --> 489.12]  And so I said to Malachi, I said, Malachi, you go left and I'll go right.
+[489.30 --> 490.46]  And we'll see what happens.
+[490.52 --> 491.24]  And he looked at me.
+[491.28 --> 492.28]  You know, Malachi is only six.
+[492.42 --> 494.48]  And so rightly with a little bit of intimidation.
+[494.48 --> 496.72]  Like, are you sure, Dad?
+[496.82 --> 497.94]  This is kind of scary.
+[498.02 --> 499.88]  You're going to let me go off on my own?
+[500.70 --> 501.50]  And I said, it's okay.
+[501.82 --> 502.90]  I'll be nearby.
+[503.06 --> 503.56]  I'll find you.
+[503.58 --> 506.76]  And he was never really more than 10 or 20 feet away from me.
+[507.40 --> 511.70]  And if I looked really closely for his bright green stripe on his coat, I would be able to see him.
+[512.38 --> 513.28]  But off he went.
+[514.00 --> 514.82]  And off I went.
+[515.78 --> 516.50]  And he went.
+[517.90 --> 522.34]  And I walked to the other side of the path where they joined up together.
+[522.34 --> 523.12]  And I looked.
+[523.30 --> 524.54]  And I didn't see him.
+[525.84 --> 532.00]  I said, maybe I was wrong to let him do this.
+[532.40 --> 533.30]  And so I called his name.
+[533.40 --> 535.12]  I said, Malachi, what's going on?
+[535.86 --> 538.76]  And I heard a little voice off just around the bend.
+[538.90 --> 539.62]  I'm here, Dad.
+[540.46 --> 541.88]  And so I walked down the path.
+[541.90 --> 542.88]  And I went to check it out.
+[542.88 --> 552.38]  And there he was on the side of the road looking at some birds that had collected because somebody had left a pile of bird seed on the path.
+[552.80 --> 559.86]  And he had stopped and picked up the bird seed and was holding it in his hand, trying to get the birds to come like Disney princesses to eat out of his hand.
+[561.00 --> 562.70]  He got distracted along the way.
+[562.88 --> 564.88]  It took longer to get to where we were going.
+[564.98 --> 566.36]  But we ended up in the same spot.
+[566.36 --> 575.02]  And I share that story because it's kind of a parallel for what I want to do with this text.
+[575.70 --> 579.58]  So we're going to take two different avenues to get to the same place.
+[580.16 --> 583.54]  One of them is going to take a little bit longer to get there as we wrestle with it.
+[584.16 --> 586.82]  And then we'll come back and grab the other one.
+[587.62 --> 592.28]  Now to begin, like I say, I'm going to give you a little bit of a road map so that you know where we're going.
+[592.28 --> 592.72]  Right?
+[593.68 --> 599.66]  And that way, as we go, you'll see how these two separate paths come to the same place.
+[599.68 --> 601.48]  How the two parts fit the whole.
+[602.50 --> 611.00]  Now I believe that this chapter, this response of God to Habakkuk's complaint, is centered around one idea, one destination.
+[611.56 --> 617.46]  A come and coming reality of who God is and what God is doing in the world.
+[617.46 --> 629.26]  Now in short, I think chapter 2 helps us see that the goal of it all, the goal of everything, is the glory of God and then our experience of it.
+[630.78 --> 641.14]  And then in the text, what we will see is that God uses two avenues in his speech to get us to that one end goal.
+[641.14 --> 647.84]  And so that one avenue is a survey of the whole movements of all of history, right?
+[647.92 --> 649.84]  From beginning to new beginning.
+[651.16 --> 665.02]  And then that second avenue, the one that will take us a little bit longer, is a sort of comparison to what I'm calling an experience of lesser glories or misplaced glories.
+[665.02 --> 675.02]  Now for those of you who have been around church for a while, this experience of lesser glories or misplaced glories is what the Bible commonly calls idolatry.
+[676.38 --> 682.08]  And so the goal, the point, right, is the glory of God revealed and experienced.
+[682.56 --> 691.72]  And the ways that we're going to get there through this text is by seeing the sweeping movements of all of history and then by way of contrast with lesser glories.
+[691.72 --> 695.98]  And so let's start at the end, right?
+[696.02 --> 699.90]  Let's start with the goal, the glory of God revealed and experienced.
+[700.68 --> 705.88]  Now if you have your Bible in your hands, and of course you probably should, look at verse 14.
+[707.20 --> 714.78]  Now you can also see what we're about to say from verse 2 and verse 20, but we're going to start with verse 14 because it's the most clear.
+[714.78 --> 726.98]  And then I'm going to encourage you to come back to verse 2 and 20 in your personal devotions or your personal reflection this week so you can try to find it and trace it in the same way just for the sake of our time together this morning.
+[727.74 --> 731.72]  Now verse 14 should be familiar to many of you by now, right?
+[731.76 --> 735.30]  It's January's Bible memory verse from Emmanuel Kitts.
+[735.74 --> 740.00]  We go over it every week with the help of actions and kids from home, right?
+[740.00 --> 746.18]  For the earth will be filled with the knowledge of the glory of the Lord as waters cover the sea.
+[747.86 --> 750.58]  Really, that's pretty straightforward, right?
+[750.62 --> 752.02]  The image is clear and helpful.
+[752.66 --> 755.26]  For the earth, that's here, right?
+[755.34 --> 760.20]  This place, us, everything will be filled.
+[761.46 --> 762.34]  Now notice the tense.
+[762.74 --> 764.06]  Will be filled, right?
+[764.08 --> 766.00]  That's a future reality.
+[766.00 --> 771.36]  That's something the people of Habakkuk's day could anticipate and long for.
+[771.48 --> 780.90]  Something that is particularly or partially fulfilled in Jesus come the first time round and so is already come in part.
+[781.06 --> 787.90]  And something that will ultimately then be fulfilled at the fullness of things or the restoration of all things.
+[787.90 --> 796.24]  So there's this already not yet, this come and coming aspect to this reality, but we'll come back to that in a moment.
+[796.36 --> 797.34]  So hang on to that.
+[799.54 --> 805.18]  For the earth will be filled with the knowledge of the glory of the Lord.
+[805.18 --> 816.90]  Now, in Hebrew, the root word translated knowledge isn't just knowing a list of information.
+[818.28 --> 826.32]  In Hebrew, the root of knowledge, to know, has a depth and an intimacy to it.
+[826.32 --> 837.22]  Perhaps this is a little bit PG-13, but in some places in the Bible it will say something like, Abraham knew Sarah and they had Isaac.
+[838.48 --> 841.30]  Y'all know what know means in that case?
+[842.50 --> 842.76]  Right?
+[842.84 --> 845.92]  There's an intimacy to that kind of knowledge.
+[846.72 --> 846.86]  Right?
+[846.90 --> 852.22]  There's an intimacy, a relational characteristic to knowing God.
+[852.22 --> 853.10]  Right?
+[853.16 --> 855.78]  There's something deep and special about it.
+[856.06 --> 863.24]  A knowledge of God, to know Him in the Bible is to have a relationship with Him, to have a covenant with Him.
+[863.28 --> 876.12]  Now, I get that that's a kind of fancy church word or maybe legal word, but a covenant is an intentional, purposed, directed, empowered relationship that affects and consumes everything we do.
+[876.12 --> 884.44]  And so, to be filled with the knowledge of the glory of the Lord is more than just to know something.
+[884.96 --> 886.78]  It is experiencing it.
+[886.86 --> 887.98]  It is living it.
+[888.06 --> 892.30]  It is relating to it and relating to others by it.
+[894.06 --> 897.20]  Now, the glory of the Lord.
+[897.42 --> 897.54]  Right?
+[897.58 --> 899.92]  The knowledge of the glory of the Lord.
+[899.92 --> 910.76]  Now, a real simple way to get at what the glory of the Lord is, and I think this is from John Piper who probably himself got it from Jonathan Edwards before him.
+[911.18 --> 917.88]  But John Piper, I think it is, says, the glory of the Lord is the going public of God's holiness.
+[919.18 --> 919.46]  Right?
+[919.48 --> 924.16]  The glory of God is the public display of His holiness.
+[924.58 --> 924.86]  Right?
+[924.86 --> 926.72]  His perfection, His righteousness.
+[927.28 --> 934.32]  Yes, but holiness also means His otherness, His distinctness, His set-apartness.
+[934.64 --> 934.80]  Right?
+[934.94 --> 944.88]  Holiness for God and then for us down the line from Him as His people, as Christians living in the world, holiness isn't just a moral reality.
+[945.96 --> 946.20]  Right?
+[946.20 --> 948.18]  It is that, but it's also so much more.
+[948.60 --> 952.64]  Holiness for God and for us is an ontological reality.
+[952.80 --> 953.86]  It is an existential reality.
+[953.86 --> 959.64]  It is to have a relationship with God is to be set apart.
+[960.38 --> 960.48]  Right?
+[960.50 --> 966.00]  It is to be changed, to be transformed from death into life.
+[966.34 --> 966.58]  Right?
+[966.60 --> 969.98]  To be transformed from one degree of glory to another.
+[970.88 --> 970.96]  Right?
+[971.34 --> 980.90]  Holiness for us is to experience the glory of God in a way that changes who you are and what you do.
+[980.90 --> 983.34]  And that's the point.
+[983.76 --> 987.04]  That's the goal of all of this.
+[987.10 --> 987.26]  Right?
+[987.32 --> 991.86]  The whole earth, the whole world will be changed.
+[994.36 --> 1000.52]  For the earth will be filled with the knowledge of the glory of the Lord as the waters cover the sea.
+[1000.52 --> 1006.36]  What's the difference between seas and water?
+[1008.04 --> 1008.42]  Right?
+[1008.42 --> 1009.48]  It's not a trick question.
+[1009.60 --> 1011.98]  It's not the salinity content or something like that.
+[1012.22 --> 1012.44]  Right?
+[1012.48 --> 1014.04]  What's the difference between seas and water?
+[1014.74 --> 1015.84]  There's no difference.
+[1016.62 --> 1016.72]  Right?
+[1016.76 --> 1017.60]  They're water.
+[1018.00 --> 1018.74]  That's the point.
+[1018.98 --> 1020.64]  The sea is water.
+[1020.64 --> 1024.06]  Wherever there is sea, there is water.
+[1025.66 --> 1026.24]  Right?
+[1026.26 --> 1027.42]  That's the goal of God.
+[1027.84 --> 1033.86]  That one day, wherever there is anywhere, there is the glory of God.
+[1034.88 --> 1035.08]  Right?
+[1035.14 --> 1037.10]  God's glory will be everywhere.
+[1037.28 --> 1042.22]  The experience of his going public holiness will be everywhere.
+[1042.54 --> 1045.84]  The purpose of his kingdom will be everywhere.
+[1045.84 --> 1052.20]  The knowledge of the Lord, a relationship to him and with him will be everywhere.
+[1052.84 --> 1056.84]  That's God's goal in creation, that he would be glorified.
+[1057.68 --> 1064.72]  That's what God does and why God does what he does, that he would get the glory.
+[1065.18 --> 1065.32]  Right?
+[1065.36 --> 1067.72]  That's why God said, let there be light.
+[1067.86 --> 1073.32]  That's why God says, you are the light of the world, for the revelation of his glory.
+[1073.32 --> 1076.46]  And here's the thing.
+[1078.44 --> 1085.48]  I know that this might offend some of you or be a surprise to some of you, but here's
+[1085.48 --> 1086.56]  the thing that comes out of this, right?
+[1088.56 --> 1090.74]  It's not about you.
+[1092.46 --> 1097.18]  The world, history, creation is not about you.
+[1097.98 --> 1098.46]  Right?
+[1098.48 --> 1100.60]  It's not centered around you.
+[1100.60 --> 1103.26]  It's not for your personal pleasure.
+[1103.68 --> 1108.32]  And yet in the culture that we live in, in the Western individualistic society that we
+[1108.32 --> 1109.68]  find ourselves in, right?
+[1109.72 --> 1111.82]  It's a culture of me and I.
+[1111.98 --> 1116.14]  And this idea that it's not about me might be a tough pill to swallow.
+[1116.44 --> 1117.58]  Because here it is, right?
+[1117.76 --> 1122.10]  Your life isn't even about you.
+[1122.10 --> 1124.66]  It's about God.
+[1125.32 --> 1125.54]  Right?
+[1125.54 --> 1126.80]  It's about his glory.
+[1126.96 --> 1128.60]  It's about the worship of his name.
+[1128.70 --> 1133.46]  It's about giving God his due as the only one worthy of praise.
+[1133.88 --> 1140.92]  History is about God's going public over the whole earth that we might experience him.
+[1140.92 --> 1143.26]  And that's the thing, right?
+[1145.70 --> 1152.34]  The God who does everything for his glory is for you.
+[1153.66 --> 1157.42]  It's not about you, but he's for you.
+[1158.00 --> 1158.22]  Right?
+[1158.26 --> 1160.94]  He longs for you to be found in him.
+[1161.08 --> 1164.84]  He has made you to be in a relationship with him.
+[1164.84 --> 1170.74]  And while it's not about you, when you make it all about him, that's when you actually
+[1170.74 --> 1174.34]  find your joy and purpose and meaning and power.
+[1174.56 --> 1180.84]  That's the open secret of the gospel, that when you die to self and live for Christ, that's
+[1180.84 --> 1182.24]  when you actually live.
+[1185.26 --> 1192.16]  Irenaeus was an early church apologist, and he has a quote that says,
+[1192.16 --> 1196.42]  The glory of God is the human being fully alive.
+[1197.22 --> 1199.64]  The glory of God is the human being fully alive.
+[1199.76 --> 1201.80]  And so, to help us understand that, just turn it around.
+[1203.24 --> 1203.44]  Right?
+[1203.50 --> 1206.24]  How do you live as a human being fully alive?
+[1207.10 --> 1208.68]  By living for the glory of God.
+[1210.96 --> 1215.76]  Again, I think it's Piper borrowing from Jonathan Edwards, but he says,
+[1215.76 --> 1220.70]  God is most glorified in us when we are most satisfied in him.
+[1222.16 --> 1225.22]  And that's ultimately what is the goal.
+[1225.38 --> 1229.40]  What is the point of that triangle, the place that we're going.
+[1229.68 --> 1232.48]  And that's getting us into this first side.
+[1232.62 --> 1232.72]  Right?
+[1232.86 --> 1240.26]  Habakkuk reveals that the goal of the glory of God to be experienced in this life and
+[1240.26 --> 1244.20]  throughout all the earth, he gets to that by way of a contrast.
+[1244.82 --> 1247.86]  A contrast with lesser glories.
+[1247.86 --> 1254.42]  Things that we have exchanged in our lives for that one good, glorious experience of who
+[1254.42 --> 1259.48]  God is and what God has done and in a relationship with him for something else.
+[1259.84 --> 1265.58]  Other things or other means or ideas that we put stock in or found purpose from.
+[1265.58 --> 1275.44]  The second part of the chapter, the Lord speaks what are called five woe statements.
+[1275.98 --> 1276.14]  Right?
+[1276.22 --> 1278.76]  You saw it as we read, beginning in verse 6.
+[1279.22 --> 1279.40]  Right?
+[1279.52 --> 1280.58]  Woe to him.
+[1282.14 --> 1289.70]  Now, what I want you to see is that each of these woe statements center around a way of
+[1289.70 --> 1295.04]  being in the world that is contrary to the goal that we have seen.
+[1296.36 --> 1296.58]  Right?
+[1296.64 --> 1303.58]  If the goal is God's glory and all of your life is about God's glory, not yours, anything
+[1303.58 --> 1305.10]  else is a cheap substitute.
+[1305.28 --> 1310.20]  Anything else is an experience of lesser glory or raising up a created thing in the place
+[1310.20 --> 1312.84]  of the creator or a good thing to an ultimate thing.
+[1312.84 --> 1321.40]  And unfortunately, and if you're honest with yourself, you'll see this in your life, and
+[1321.40 --> 1327.98]  I know it's true because I see it in mine when I'm honest with myself, we often prefer
+[1327.98 --> 1333.94]  the cheap substitute because it's quicker or it's easier or it's more close at hand.
+[1334.06 --> 1335.04]  It's more immediate.
+[1335.94 --> 1336.50]  Right?
+[1336.50 --> 1343.22]  We prefer the lesser glory because we have ultimately misplaced our meaning and our purpose
+[1343.22 --> 1350.50]  and rooted our life in ourselves rather than in Him who created life.
+[1351.44 --> 1358.84]  Quickly, look at me, look with me starting at verse 6 where Habakkuk has written, God has
+[1358.84 --> 1365.18]  spoken, woe to him who piles up stolen goods and makes himself wealthy by extortion.
+[1365.18 --> 1369.18]  Now, in a word, this is the trap of consumerism.
+[1369.86 --> 1370.28]  Right?
+[1370.36 --> 1376.92]  When you think that your heart and life will be satisfied by things, by more and more things,
+[1377.22 --> 1383.64]  and when you've bought into that lie, we will do almost anything to satisfy it.
+[1384.50 --> 1388.86]  Problem is, right, nothing ever actually satisfies it.
+[1389.20 --> 1390.12]  But do we learn?
+[1391.22 --> 1391.50]  Nope.
+[1391.50 --> 1397.08]  We just go back to the next thing or the next new, the new best, the new new.
+[1398.26 --> 1404.54]  And somehow, right, kind of insanely actually, we think that something will be different this
+[1404.54 --> 1407.76]  time with this thing or with this new.
+[1409.24 --> 1414.98]  But here's the really insidious part about this way of seeing and being in the world.
+[1414.98 --> 1418.04]  It never actually feels insane.
+[1418.94 --> 1419.34]  Right?
+[1419.36 --> 1420.16]  It just feels normal.
+[1420.56 --> 1422.54]  It feels that this is the way we're supposed to be.
+[1422.64 --> 1424.20]  This is how the world works.
+[1424.38 --> 1425.76]  It doesn't even feel wrong.
+[1426.30 --> 1426.66]  Right?
+[1426.68 --> 1429.52]  That this is just the way our hearts are wired.
+[1430.36 --> 1431.36]  Or so we think.
+[1431.94 --> 1435.34]  And so we keep coming back to it time and time again.
+[1435.34 --> 1437.54]  And God is saying, whoa!
+[1439.70 --> 1444.10]  Wake up to a greater reality of glory.
+[1445.24 --> 1447.14]  All right, next he goes to verse 9.
+[1447.50 --> 1453.32]  Woe to him who builds up his realm by unjust gain to set his nest on high to escape the clutches
+[1453.32 --> 1454.04]  of ruin.
+[1455.70 --> 1462.92]  Now again, we're rushing through this pretty quick, but this is a lesser glory of status
+[1462.92 --> 1464.40]  and position.
+[1465.50 --> 1465.72]  Right?
+[1465.78 --> 1472.88]  As if meaning and value on your life and in your life can finally be found when people
+[1472.88 --> 1475.98]  laud my prowess and accomplishments.
+[1476.72 --> 1477.08]  Right?
+[1477.12 --> 1482.74]  When we find satisfaction in the praise of others and security in our accomplishments.
+[1484.86 --> 1485.92]  Verse 12.
+[1486.90 --> 1491.26]  Woe to him who builds a city with bloodshed and establishes a town by crime.
+[1491.26 --> 1495.10]  All right, this is finding purpose in power.
+[1495.52 --> 1495.62]  Right?
+[1495.68 --> 1500.58]  And in small ways and big ways, this is a test for some of us.
+[1501.06 --> 1501.18]  Right?
+[1501.22 --> 1505.26]  How will we use the authority given us?
+[1506.62 --> 1510.18]  You're probably familiar with the quote from Lord Acton.
+[1510.38 --> 1510.74]  Right?
+[1510.78 --> 1515.40]  Who says that power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
+[1516.34 --> 1516.76]  Right?
+[1516.76 --> 1520.66]  There is a proper understanding of authority and power.
+[1520.76 --> 1523.24]  A proper submission to authority.
+[1523.82 --> 1524.14]  Right?
+[1524.20 --> 1529.80]  As citizens living here in Canada, we submit ourselves to the government and to law enforcement.
+[1529.80 --> 1535.64]  As church members, we submit ourselves to the spiritual authority of the elders over us.
+[1535.64 --> 1539.98]  As children, you submit yourselves to the authority of your parents.
+[1539.98 --> 1542.18]  Right?
+[1545.54 --> 1547.50]  But governments can overreach.
+[1549.08 --> 1550.44]  Pastors abuse power.
+[1551.50 --> 1553.22]  And parents exasperate their kids.
+[1554.54 --> 1557.78]  Authority is a tool, but we so easily make it a weapon.
+[1557.78 --> 1567.56]  That's the danger of exchanging a lesser glory for the real glory of who God is.
+[1569.18 --> 1570.00]  God continues.
+[1570.16 --> 1573.44]  Woe to him, verse 15, who gives drink to his neighbors.
+[1574.44 --> 1580.66]  Now, this one actually gets pretty graphic and is probably PG-13.
+[1580.66 --> 1590.66]  And so, if you want to have a discussion and look more closely at this, we can find another time to do that when it would be more appropriate and the people are listening in a more age-appropriate way.
+[1590.72 --> 1595.08]  But you can figure it out if you look closely at the words that are given there.
+[1595.18 --> 1598.48]  But ultimately, this is about taking advantage of people.
+[1599.42 --> 1599.60]  Right?
+[1599.64 --> 1601.36]  In the text, it's about doing that sexually.
+[1601.70 --> 1604.06]  But it's also, you know, more generally so.
+[1604.06 --> 1605.00]  Right?
+[1605.06 --> 1611.04]  This is when you think of other people more as a means than as an end.
+[1611.48 --> 1611.70]  Right?
+[1611.74 --> 1614.86]  Not an end in themselves distinct from your purposes.
+[1616.08 --> 1621.12]  Now, maybe you've heard or used the phrase before, I've got no use for him.
+[1622.76 --> 1623.66]  What does that mean?
+[1624.54 --> 1627.30]  That we've reduced people to tools for our purposes.
+[1628.42 --> 1631.64]  And when they lose function, we lose them.
+[1631.64 --> 1634.10]  Right?
+[1634.12 --> 1639.18]  And this is an example, ultimately, of how we substitute a lesser glory for the greater glory.
+[1639.18 --> 1653.52]  Because what we are actually saying in that moment by doing that or by thinking that or by treating other people that way is that we think of ourselves and the sort of behavior that comes from that as more important or as ultimate.
+[1653.52 --> 1653.74]  Right?
+[1653.80 --> 1661.02]  The worldview behind this way of thinking and being in the world is that it's all for my good, for my pleasure.
+[1661.02 --> 1663.50]  It's all about my purposes and my glory.
+[1663.86 --> 1666.02]  You are here to serve me.
+[1667.18 --> 1674.96]  Now, if you know the words of Jesus, he says, I did not come to be served, but to serve.
+[1675.78 --> 1679.40]  You know that that's not the proper way of understanding our relationship to people.
+[1679.40 --> 1680.80]  And yet we do it.
+[1682.64 --> 1685.78]  Because properly understood, it's not about you.
+[1685.78 --> 1698.28]  We've seen how we've exchanged lesser evils for the glory of God as the greatest, exchanged lesser glories for the greatest glory.
+[1698.50 --> 1700.80]  And now, finally, the other side of the triangle.
+[1701.74 --> 1707.92]  And coming back to my story with Malachi, this is the quick way around, so we're not going to spend as much time as we just did on there.
+[1707.92 --> 1712.34]  But again, in your own study and devotion, I really do think you can dig into this.
+[1713.96 --> 1715.96]  Look at verse 19.
+[1718.36 --> 1721.16]  The final woe.
+[1722.60 --> 1726.92]  Woe to him who says to wood, come to life.
+[1726.98 --> 1729.56]  Or to the lifeless stone, wake up.
+[1730.10 --> 1731.10]  Can it give guidance?
+[1731.20 --> 1733.36]  It's covered with gold and silver.
+[1733.36 --> 1740.36]  But verse 19 makes explicit what has been behind all the other woe statements, right?
+[1740.42 --> 1747.24]  That all of these raising up of lesser glories is simply idolatry.
+[1748.40 --> 1750.98]  And the question of verse 18 is helpful.
+[1751.60 --> 1754.02]  What value is an idol since man has carved it?
+[1754.40 --> 1756.28]  Or an image that teaches lies?
+[1756.98 --> 1759.44]  For he who makes it trusts his own creation.
+[1761.18 --> 1763.02]  He makes idols that cannot speak.
+[1763.36 --> 1772.96]  Ultimately, when we exchange the lesser glories, or exchange the greater glory of who God is for these lesser glories,
+[1773.16 --> 1778.32]  we are taking something of our own creation and putting it in the place of God.
+[1778.42 --> 1780.86]  He wants us to see that.
+[1783.08 --> 1789.06]  Instead of lesser glories, God wants you to see that his glory is the singular purpose for life.
+[1789.06 --> 1794.12]  That chasing lesser glories just leads to a listless wandering.
+[1795.42 --> 1799.34]  God wants you to experience the lavish wonder of his glory.
+[1799.34 --> 1802.22]  And that's where all this is going.
+[1802.22 --> 1803.62]  And he ensures it.
+[1804.14 --> 1812.38]  The other side of the triangle is the sea, the sweeping movements of history that get us to the goal of verse 14,
+[1812.52 --> 1817.94]  where the earth will be filled with the knowledge of the glory of the Lord as the waters cover the sea.
+[1817.94 --> 1820.68]  Look at verse 3.
+[1820.68 --> 1824.80]  For the revelation awaits an appointed time.
+[1825.38 --> 1828.28]  It speaks of the end and will not prove false.
+[1828.64 --> 1831.12]  Though it linger, wait for it.
+[1831.20 --> 1836.38]  It will certainly come and will not delay.
+[1836.38 --> 1845.38]  The promise of God, the reality of God at work in the world, is that from the very beginning,
+[1846.32 --> 1848.84]  before God said, let there be light,
+[1850.02 --> 1854.84]  God was longing for you to know the glory of who he is.
+[1855.58 --> 1858.70]  And the purpose behind God saying, let there be light,
+[1858.76 --> 1861.74]  and creating the world that we see and know and live in,
+[1861.90 --> 1863.54]  it was for the glory of his name.
+[1863.54 --> 1867.30]  And he ensures that it will get there.
+[1868.06 --> 1869.80]  He created for his glory,
+[1870.02 --> 1875.70]  and he created you and me, men and women, human beings in his image,
+[1875.72 --> 1878.44]  that we might reflect his glory,
+[1878.58 --> 1881.66]  that we might reflect something of who he is to the world.
+[1881.78 --> 1886.88]  And yet, even then, our first parents chose something other.
+[1886.88 --> 1890.40]  Even then, our first parents exchanged the relationship,
+[1890.40 --> 1893.54]  the covenant with God for something else.
+[1893.70 --> 1895.70]  They believed a lie.
+[1897.14 --> 1898.84]  They rebelled against God.
+[1899.76 --> 1903.58]  And in that rebellion, not just did we become sinful,
+[1903.76 --> 1907.86]  but shalom, wholeness, peace on earth was broken,
+[1908.12 --> 1914.68]  and now all creation suffers as a consequence of the weight and reality of our sin.
+[1914.68 --> 1921.48]  And day in and day out, we live and affirm that we would have done exactly the same in that same moment.
+[1922.52 --> 1925.84]  That apart from God redeeming us,
+[1926.84 --> 1930.26]  we would still be lost in sin.
+[1930.26 --> 1933.36]  But God gave a promise.
+[1934.46 --> 1936.22]  He spoke a promise in the garden.
+[1936.38 --> 1940.42]  He focused that promise in the person of Abraham and in the people of Israel,
+[1940.42 --> 1944.64]  and through them revealed exactly what he would do
+[1944.64 --> 1947.26]  and what it would take to call people back to himself,
+[1947.52 --> 1952.06]  exactly what it would do to gather his people for the glory of his name.
+[1952.64 --> 1956.36]  And in the temple and in sacrifice and in the wilderness period
+[1956.36 --> 1961.18]  and in the kingship and the priestly order and in the entire history and existence
+[1961.18 --> 1964.56]  and scope of Israel's movement through the drama of redemption,
+[1964.92 --> 1968.02]  coming into the land, being taken out of the land and coming back into it,
+[1968.24 --> 1974.36]  we begin to see God revealing for us the one who would come as the true Israel,
+[1975.16 --> 1978.14]  the one who would come as the perfect son of God,
+[1978.20 --> 1980.24]  who would live the life we should have lived
+[1980.24 --> 1982.94]  and who would die the death that we deserve because of sin.
+[1982.94 --> 1987.70]  We see what God would do to guarantee that he would be glorified.
+[1991.38 --> 1997.52]  As he takes victory over sin and defeats death,
+[1998.46 --> 2000.36]  the resurrection of Jesus.
+[2001.78 --> 2007.24]  And this same Jesus comes into this world and has come down
+[2007.24 --> 2009.34]  and has ascended to the right hand of the Father
+[2009.34 --> 2012.24]  and sits now as king over all creation
+[2012.24 --> 2017.38]  to the glory of God the Father, says Philippians 2.
+[2018.28 --> 2023.30]  The purpose and the big movements and sweeps of history and redemption
+[2023.30 --> 2029.68]  comes to Christ and then flows from him now in and through the church.
+[2030.82 --> 2031.08]  Right?
+[2031.16 --> 2033.94]  Jesus, the light of the world, comes, says to you,
+[2034.06 --> 2035.40]  you are the light of the world.
+[2035.40 --> 2040.20]  The revelation of God's glory culminating in Jesus Christ now is through us,
+[2040.20 --> 2043.76]  the church, as his gathered, called and sent out people,
+[2043.94 --> 2046.76]  that we might be transformed into the image of his son,
+[2046.82 --> 2050.80]  that we might be the place now where the world sees God.
+[2051.18 --> 2056.70]  All of this, the scope of history moving towards that one day
+[2056.70 --> 2058.40]  where Jesus himself would return,
+[2058.86 --> 2061.76]  the sound of the trumpet with the archangels,
+[2061.76 --> 2065.06]  with the glory train of all the saints who have gone before him,
+[2065.10 --> 2067.40]  that he would come down to this earth
+[2067.40 --> 2071.50]  and that here, on this good earth,
+[2071.72 --> 2073.28]  restored and renewed,
+[2073.76 --> 2076.48]  the kingdom would be established forever.
+[2076.70 --> 2078.80]  That the new Jerusalem would come
+[2078.80 --> 2080.16]  and there would be no temple
+[2080.16 --> 2085.26]  because the dwelling place of God is now with man.
+[2085.26 --> 2089.06]  That the glory of God is now with man.
+[2089.06 --> 2090.60]  That the glory of God is now with man.
+[2090.60 --> 2092.60]  That the glory of God is now with man.
+[2092.60 --> 2096.86]  For the earth will be filled with the knowledge of the glory of the Lord
+[2096.86 --> 2100.24]  as the waters cover the sea.
+[2102.40 --> 2103.74]  That's where it's going.
+[2105.02 --> 2110.76]  Don't exchange the greater glory of who God is for a lesser glory.
+[2110.76 --> 2116.28]  Instead, experience here and now already what it might be like
+[2116.28 --> 2120.64]  to know him, to serve him and love him in that way.
+[2122.68 --> 2124.00]  Finally, and we'll land here,
+[2125.76 --> 2128.96]  the end of verse 3 says,
+[2129.10 --> 2132.20]  though it linger, wait for it.
+[2132.20 --> 2135.34]  It can be hard to wait.
+[2137.80 --> 2141.32]  And it might seem like it's taken God a long time to do something.
+[2142.50 --> 2146.76]  It might seem like the drama of redemption has slowed down
+[2146.76 --> 2149.10]  and that there are times and circumstances and situations
+[2149.10 --> 2153.20]  that provide direct challenge to the rule of God in this world,
+[2153.28 --> 2156.34]  that provide direct challenge to the goal of it all.
+[2156.34 --> 2161.48]  As other glories or other challenges to his rule come in,
+[2161.52 --> 2163.10]  be it the problem of evil,
+[2163.62 --> 2166.30]  be it nations warring against nations,
+[2166.48 --> 2169.28]  be it injustice globally or locally.
+[2169.60 --> 2171.70]  Though it linger, wait for it,
+[2171.80 --> 2175.00]  because his promise is sure.
+[2176.00 --> 2179.26]  You can stake your life on that.
+[2179.26 --> 2184.50]  But, verse 4, God says,
+[2184.64 --> 2188.46]  the righteous will live by faith.
+[2190.24 --> 2193.00]  It takes faith to live in this world.
+[2194.60 --> 2197.82]  My prayer is that your faith
+[2197.82 --> 2202.22]  will be in the one who created this world.
+[2203.30 --> 2204.78]  And that as you live for him,
+[2205.26 --> 2207.88]  as you are set apart for his purposes,
+[2207.88 --> 2212.38]  as you see and experience the glory of God
+[2212.38 --> 2215.22]  made manifest in you and through you,
+[2215.84 --> 2218.44]  that your faith will not only be strengthened,
+[2219.36 --> 2223.00]  but your heart's affections for Jesus will be stirred,
+[2223.90 --> 2225.72]  and that you will be empowered
+[2225.72 --> 2228.64]  and emboldened from now on
+[2228.64 --> 2230.94]  to live for him.
+[2232.08 --> 2232.42]  Amen?
+[2233.42 --> 2234.00]  Amen.
+[2234.34 --> 2235.04]  Let's pray together.
+[2237.88 --> 2245.02]  Lord our God,
+[2245.94 --> 2249.84]  turn our listless wandering
+[2249.84 --> 2251.66]  into lavish wonder.
+[2254.38 --> 2256.26]  Open our eyes to the ways
+[2256.26 --> 2258.64]  that we have settled for lesser glories
+[2258.64 --> 2261.02]  and captivate our hearts today
+[2261.02 --> 2264.32]  with the majesty of your greatest glory,
+[2264.32 --> 2265.68]  of who you are,
+[2266.04 --> 2267.16]  what you have done,
+[2267.24 --> 2268.88]  and what you are doing in this world,
+[2268.96 --> 2270.32]  and where you are guiding
+[2270.32 --> 2272.00]  all the movements of history.
+[2273.14 --> 2276.12]  Cause us to long for that day.
+[2276.98 --> 2279.40]  Come quickly, Lord Jesus, we pray.
+[2281.16 --> 2282.06]  Come quickly.
+[2283.28 --> 2283.60]  Amen.
+[2283.60 --> 2283.70]  Amen.
+[2284.76 --> 2285.56]  Amen.
+[2285.56 --> 2285.62]  Amen.
+[2286.28 --> 2287.56]  Amen.
+[2287.56 --> 2288.06]  Amen.
+[2288.06 --> 2288.56]  Amen.
+[2288.56 --> 2289.56]  Amen.
+[2289.56 --> 2290.56]  Amen.
+[2290.56 --> 2291.56]  Amen.
+[2291.56 --> 2292.56]  Amen.
+[2292.56 --> 2293.56]  Amen.
+[2293.56 --> 2293.62]  Amen.
+[2293.62 --> 2293.64]  Amen.
+[2293.64 --> 2293.66]  Amen.
+[2293.66 --> 2293.68]  Amen.
+[2293.68 --> 2293.72]  Amen.
+[2293.72 --> 2294.30]  Amen.

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+• Introduction to a new teaching series through the book of James
+• Reading and understanding the letter of James
+• Overview of the first eight verses of James, including considerations for trials and seeking wisdom
+• Personal story of the speaker's past faith experience and struggle with hypocrisy
+• The difference between intellectual understanding and true change in one's life
+• Acknowledgement of a quote by Brennan Manning on hypocrisy in Christianity
+• Studies on youth/young people leaving church/faith show a common theme: their parents' faith didn't make a difference in daily life.
+• Faith not changing anything about one's life makes it hard for others to adopt the same faith.
+• Anecdotal evidence from atheists and non-believers highlights hypocrisy in Christian lives.
+• The letter of James aims to help believers make their faith real, more than just ideas or propositions.
+• James writes to Jewish Christians scattered among nations.
+• Palestine and the Jewish community
+• Pressure to conform to old ways and Roman culture
+• Ostracism, rejection, and persecution from communities and families
+• The allure of worldly promises vs. God's promise of resurrection reality
+• James' concern for believers to stop compromising with worldly values
+• The path towards spiritual wholeness and the importance of perseverance
+• The importance of perseverance in overcoming hardships and trials
+• Maturity and completion come from testing one's faith and persevering through failures
+• The purpose for which we were created is revealed through enduring trials and perseverance
+• Wholeness and completeness are achieved by being restored to our original design as children of God
+• Living a Christian life means being pulled between the gospel and the world, and making choices that reflect our commitment to faith and godliness
+• Faithfulness is demonstrated by being both hearers and doers of the word
+• The speaker discusses making faith "real" by hearing God's word and living it out
+• Challenges of making faith real, including being ostracized or persecuted for following a moral code
+• Holiness is not about giving up things we enjoy, but about embracing the good news of living as designed by God
+• Faith is joyful even in trials and challenges
+• James' letter applies this idea throughout its content
+• Making something real will address what it means to be wise
+• The importance of humility in life versus pride
+• Enduring suffering as part of the process of making something real
+• The role of prayer and God's work in the world
+• The idea that God is real, Jesus is real, and he changes everything about a person's life
+• A quote from Jaquel Crow's book "This Changes Everything" highlighting how Jesus changes people 100%
+• Living a real life and making difficult choices
+• The impact of one's actions on others
+• Wrestling with what it means to be a follower of Jesus
+• Conviction, change, and living a compelling life
+• Grace, faith, and adoption as a son or daughter of God
+• Receiving perfect righteousness and being declared holy
+• Living a life that is real and authentic
+• Overcoming obstacles and criticism from others
+• Making faith real through actions, not just words
+• Being drawn to God's presence and majesty in one's life
+• Praying for relationships with others to be transformed by God's love and gospel

Make it Real (Sermon)_transcript.txt

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+[1.00 --> 8.50]  This morning we are going to start a new teaching series here through the letter of James.
+[9.06 --> 13.34]  I'm going to encourage you to have a Bible with you so that we can read through that.
+[13.60 --> 18.74]  You can spend time throughout the week reading through the letter, familiarizing yourself with it,
+[18.76 --> 27.48]  that we can come into this, into our gathered worship on Sundays and dig deeply into what God has to say to us.
+[27.48 --> 34.38]  I'm going to read from the first eight verses of James, so I invite you to find that.
+[34.48 --> 35.90]  James is near the end of your Bible.
+[36.88 --> 41.02]  If you open up to the back and then flip a few pages the other way, you will find James eventually.
+[41.88 --> 44.66]  And it will also be on the screen there, as you can see.
+[45.24 --> 47.82]  So, from James 1, let me read with you.
+[49.28 --> 56.56]  James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes scattered among the nations,
+[56.56 --> 57.68]  Greetings.
+[59.38 --> 64.48]  Consider it pure joy, my brothers and sisters, whenever you face trials of many kinds,
+[64.80 --> 68.92]  because you know that the testing of your faith develops perseverance.
+[70.52 --> 76.86]  Perseverance must finish its work so that you may be mature and complete, not lacking anything.
+[76.86 --> 85.38]  If any of you lacks wisdom, he should ask God, who gives generously to all without finding fault,
+[85.66 --> 86.94]  and it will be given to him.
+[87.80 --> 90.34]  But when he asks, he must believe and not doubt,
+[90.62 --> 94.74]  because he who doubts is like a wave of the sea blown and tossed by the wind.
+[95.38 --> 98.34]  That man should not think that he will receive anything from the Lord.
+[98.60 --> 102.70]  He is a double-minded man, unstable in all he does.
+[102.70 --> 104.54]  This is the word of the Lord.
+[104.54 --> 114.32]  I want to begin this morning with a little, maybe it's a personal story,
+[114.54 --> 119.08]  maybe it's too personal for you, and I apologize if that is the case,
+[119.18 --> 122.36]  and I'm happy to receive your emails and phone calls as a result.
+[122.86 --> 127.50]  But some of you have heard my faith story, or part of my faith story,
+[127.58 --> 130.08]  some of you haven't heard part of that yet.
+[130.08 --> 134.90]  And I'm going to change a little bit of that this morning, at least part of it.
+[135.80 --> 145.12]  So when I was 18 or 19 in my early 20s, to be honest, I was not a Christian.
+[146.56 --> 149.52]  And don't get me wrong, I went to church every Sunday.
+[150.08 --> 151.66]  I knew all the right words.
+[152.00 --> 156.62]  I could answer the pastors of my church appropriately whenever they asked me any questions.
+[156.62 --> 164.72]  But more often than not, I was out getting high, was partying on the weekends,
+[164.98 --> 171.42]  I was drinking and getting drunk and taking advantage of people and situations and circumstances,
+[171.70 --> 178.12]  and generally not caring much about anything more than my own pursuit of hedonistic pleasure.
+[178.12 --> 185.06]  Now to put it simply, in my life, I was a functional atheist.
+[186.06 --> 186.66]  Right?
+[186.70 --> 191.96]  I used the words of Christianity, and I might even say that I believed it,
+[192.76 --> 196.00]  but it didn't change anything about the way I lived my life.
+[196.68 --> 197.02]  Right?
+[197.06 --> 201.48]  My functioning in the world was as if God didn't really exist,
+[201.48 --> 205.40]  and that his redemption held no claim over me,
+[205.52 --> 208.70]  and that his lordship didn't matter to any part of my life.
+[210.40 --> 215.16]  And even when I engaged the claims of faith,
+[215.82 --> 220.42]  it was from the perspective of how much can I get away with?
+[221.52 --> 221.96]  Right?
+[222.04 --> 225.72]  Or to put it another way, and you know, I know teenagers love to ask this question,
+[225.88 --> 227.60]  but so do all of us as Christians.
+[227.60 --> 230.74]  And I wondered, how far is too far?
+[232.38 --> 232.84]  Right?
+[232.86 --> 237.50]  And I had a soft moralism on those sort of big issues like abortion,
+[238.10 --> 241.92]  but really, that was easy, because it didn't affect me personally.
+[242.58 --> 242.80]  Right?
+[242.82 --> 246.52]  And I wouldn't work on Sundays, but that wasn't about Sabbath rest.
+[246.86 --> 249.40]  That was about me keeping my parents off my back,
+[249.54 --> 252.44]  and having a day that I was guaranteed to not have to work.
+[254.58 --> 257.22]  I went through the motions of faith.
+[258.32 --> 258.48]  Right?
+[258.60 --> 265.54]  Christian school, cadets, church, youth group, catechism, even profession of faith.
+[265.90 --> 269.64]  And yeah, I'm sure that in my mind, at least at times,
+[269.68 --> 272.74]  I really believed what I was saying, right, on an intellectual level.
+[272.74 --> 275.42]  But my beliefs didn't change me.
+[276.32 --> 280.82]  And it didn't change the way I lived, or the way I talked, or the way I acted.
+[280.82 --> 288.94]  To paraphrase a really famous quote from Brennan Manning, right?
+[288.94 --> 296.96]  I was the Christian who acknowledged Jesus with my lips, left, and denied him with my lifestyle.
+[298.38 --> 299.76]  Have you heard that quote before?
+[299.76 --> 307.42]  Actually, in the 90s, on a DC Talk album, it was part of one of the songs at the beginning.
+[307.58 --> 309.36]  That was where I was first exposed to it.
+[309.36 --> 314.60]  But it never hit me until years later, in my 20s.
+[315.42 --> 316.80]  A quote from Brennan Manning says,
+[316.80 --> 330.00]  And I get it now, right?
+[330.00 --> 336.32]  I know enough about the Bible and about human condition, about the religious impulse, about epistemology and spirituality.
+[337.20 --> 341.84]  I know enough about philosophy and non-contradictory logical statements
+[341.84 --> 346.66]  to know that this statement from Brennan Manning isn't absolutely or comprehensively true.
+[346.96 --> 351.58]  It's not an adequate explanation of sin and the realities of sin.
+[351.72 --> 357.56]  I know that there's a difference between a causal link and saying where there really is only a correlation.
+[357.56 --> 359.28]  I know all of that.
+[360.32 --> 371.26]  But still, my heart breaks when I think about how I may have been a stumbling block.
+[372.26 --> 379.78]  When I think about how my actions or inactions might have impacted the people that I knew back then in my life
+[379.78 --> 383.14]  and led them away from experiencing Jesus.
+[383.14 --> 397.14]  When I think about how the impact of my life and decisions may have influenced my brothers
+[397.14 --> 406.76]  and how they encounter faith and the lack or the lack of their faith.
+[406.76 --> 409.88]  And I wrestle with that.
+[410.52 --> 411.48]  And I carry that.
+[413.16 --> 414.10]  And that's hard.
+[420.58 --> 432.22]  In 2011, there was a study that was done by a group of psychologists and sociologists in Canada
+[432.22 --> 436.08]  of Canadian Christian young people.
+[436.44 --> 439.40]  And that was published under the title of Hemorrhaging Faith.
+[440.60 --> 444.52]  In 2018, there was a follow-up study to that that was done by the same people.
+[444.58 --> 446.84]  And that was published under the title of Renegotiating Faith.
+[447.80 --> 451.64]  In the U.S., for the last number of years, a couple decades even,
+[451.90 --> 454.20]  the Barna Group has done a similar study.
+[454.20 --> 461.14]  And David Kinnaman has published the results in a series of books called Un-Christian and You Lost Me and the like.
+[461.92 --> 467.64]  And in all of those studies, there is a common theme that works its way right through.
+[468.58 --> 471.66]  Now, these studies focus on youth and young people.
+[471.82 --> 474.22]  And so it's given from their perspective.
+[474.84 --> 477.00]  But I think we'll be able to see how much it matters.
+[477.00 --> 484.62]  In the shifting of faith commitments and the realities of youth and young people leaving the church
+[484.62 --> 486.40]  and the faith that they grew up in,
+[486.54 --> 490.20]  there is a common theme that runs through all of the survey answers.
+[490.94 --> 494.14]  For so many of these people, when they were interviewed and asked about it,
+[494.34 --> 498.56]  when they looked at the faith, when they looked at church, right,
+[498.56 --> 502.08]  and that is the experience of their parents and their peers,
+[502.32 --> 504.84]  it didn't make a difference.
+[507.00 --> 513.22]  Overwhelmingly, they would say their parents looked exactly the same as their non-Christian friends' parents.
+[514.14 --> 514.56]  Right?
+[514.60 --> 515.64]  They did the same things.
+[515.76 --> 516.76]  They talked the same way.
+[516.86 --> 518.36]  They complained about the same things.
+[518.46 --> 521.88]  They worked and they lived and they pursued after the same things.
+[522.72 --> 524.56]  And the thinking here is this, right?
+[524.60 --> 528.42]  That if your faith doesn't really change anything about you,
+[528.42 --> 532.08]  why should I change anything about me to say I have that faith?
+[533.44 --> 534.72]  And let's be honest.
+[534.98 --> 536.78]  That's a really good question.
+[537.00 --> 543.70]  In fact, that kind of thinking, a few years ago,
+[544.42 --> 549.78]  at the peak of the sort of new atheist movement that was sort of in vogue for a little while,
+[550.48 --> 554.58]  one of the four horsemen of the new atheist movement, Christopher Hitchens,
+[554.76 --> 556.86]  he wrote a book called God is Not Great,
+[556.86 --> 561.86]  and it was an argument against religious belief generally and Christianity in particular.
+[561.86 --> 572.58]  And his main argument over and over and over and over again throughout that book is anecdotal stories of people who call themselves Christian or people who call themselves religious,
+[572.58 --> 575.06]  but brought hurt and pain into the world.
+[575.06 --> 586.42]  If our faith doesn't change anything in our lives, why do we expect people to change anything in their lives to believe the same?
+[587.62 --> 593.82]  And if your faith isn't making a difference beyond what you do on Sunday morning or what school you go to,
+[593.82 --> 598.20]  is that really a compelling faith?
+[599.90 --> 601.82]  Think about it with me.
+[601.82 --> 605.82]  If your life looks the same as your neighbor who doesn't believe.
+[607.22 --> 609.00]  Or let's get real focused for a moment.
+[609.32 --> 615.30]  If you are more excited about the Super Bowl today than you've ever been about Jesus,
+[615.30 --> 619.26]  what compelling reason are you giving for people to believe the same as you?
+[621.22 --> 627.76]  And I know that some of us listening this morning are like me when I was 18 and 19 years old.
+[627.86 --> 630.34]  We are functional atheists.
+[631.32 --> 637.32]  And I know some of us are yet unconvicted by the gospel, and so we live uncompelling lives.
+[637.48 --> 642.52]  And I know that some of us are just new to faith, or we're new to taking faith seriously,
+[642.52 --> 645.78]  and so we're learning what maturity looks like, right?
+[645.82 --> 651.46]  Some of us have never really been challenged to reflect on life and faith in this way.
+[651.46 --> 661.74]  And some of us, probably most of us, have felt this niggling thing in the back of your mind or in the corner of your heart
+[661.74 --> 664.66]  that is God whispering, saying, enough is enough.
+[664.90 --> 666.30]  I want more for you.
+[667.58 --> 669.74]  Make it real with me.
+[669.74 --> 672.00]  Make it real.
+[673.28 --> 677.28]  That's our goal in this series in the letter of James.
+[678.00 --> 680.86]  That's James' goal in writing this letter, right?
+[680.88 --> 685.48]  That the early believers would make their faith real,
+[685.52 --> 689.68]  that it would be more than just a set of ideas or propositions that they would assent to.
+[690.68 --> 694.46]  Now this morning, we're going to sort of do a quick introduction to this new series
+[694.46 --> 696.90]  that we're going to spend our time in.
+[696.90 --> 700.06]  Now, the letter begins,
+[700.50 --> 704.26]  James, he identifies himself a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ,
+[704.32 --> 705.98]  and then he tells us who he's writing to.
+[706.28 --> 710.26]  And he's writing to the twelve tribes scattered among the nations.
+[710.38 --> 711.84]  Now, without getting too deeply into it,
+[711.86 --> 716.98]  there's a lot of discussion in biblical studies about who that might be.
+[717.28 --> 720.16]  The general consensus is, and where I tend to agree,
+[720.16 --> 725.86]  is that James is writing to a group of Jewish Christians
+[725.86 --> 730.08]  who are scattered throughout the region outside of Palestine.
+[731.02 --> 731.34]  Right?
+[731.40 --> 732.62]  Their faith is young.
+[732.84 --> 737.08]  And this letter is intended to be a circulating letter,
+[737.14 --> 738.66]  or sometimes it's called a Catholic letter,
+[738.72 --> 740.90]  that it goes out to a wide group of people
+[740.90 --> 746.74]  to encourage them in their faith and in the living of life for Jesus.
+[746.74 --> 749.46]  And so because their faith is young,
+[750.10 --> 756.38]  they are facing pressure from fellow Jews to return to the old ways.
+[756.72 --> 756.84]  Right?
+[756.90 --> 762.42]  They're facing pressures from the Roman world to adapt and to compromise their beliefs.
+[762.94 --> 763.04]  Right?
+[763.04 --> 767.22]  And in that, facing pressure from the old ways
+[767.22 --> 769.82]  and facing pressure in the Roman world,
+[769.96 --> 773.66]  they're being ostracized or looked down upon
+[773.66 --> 779.02]  or rejected or outcast from their communities,
+[779.46 --> 781.68]  whether it's in the guilds that they work in
+[781.68 --> 783.28]  or even from their families.
+[784.74 --> 784.92]  Right?
+[784.96 --> 788.52]  In some cases, they're even being violently persecuted,
+[789.36 --> 790.18]  maybe even killed.
+[790.18 --> 796.68]  We can summarize and say that the social pressures to conform are powerful.
+[797.48 --> 802.96]  The religious pressures to compromise give an easy believism.
+[803.68 --> 808.04]  And the culture is holding out a vision of life and happiness and blessing
+[808.04 --> 813.16]  that is so tantalizing and so clearly visible right in front of their faces,
+[813.16 --> 815.78]  it feels like they could actually grab hold of it.
+[815.78 --> 819.50]  And when we put the context that way,
+[820.44 --> 823.80]  it sounds remarkably like our time.
+[824.98 --> 827.44]  Remarkably like what we face.
+[828.68 --> 830.28]  Stop being intolerant.
+[831.64 --> 832.90]  Don't be a prude.
+[834.02 --> 835.66]  You have to try this.
+[835.72 --> 837.30]  It's so good.
+[837.30 --> 842.38]  And it's so easy to slip into that,
+[842.46 --> 843.56]  to buy into that,
+[843.62 --> 845.26]  to shift our priorities,
+[845.46 --> 848.40]  to give ourselves over in that.
+[848.64 --> 850.76]  And James is coming in this letter
+[850.76 --> 853.00]  and throughout, hopefully, our teaching series,
+[853.08 --> 853.80]  and he says,
+[854.04 --> 854.86]  make it real.
+[855.52 --> 859.14]  Jesus' voice is speaking to us in this moment,
+[859.14 --> 859.92]  and he is saying,
+[860.04 --> 862.66]  I have so much more for you.
+[862.66 --> 866.80]  So here's the thing.
+[868.72 --> 872.38]  The world holds out a promise to you,
+[872.68 --> 878.24]  but it takes away with the left hand what it's giving with the right.
+[879.20 --> 885.24]  The gospel holds out a better reality for us,
+[885.24 --> 889.62]  a resurrection reality, a real reality.
+[889.62 --> 895.76]  And that's where we need to find ourselves this morning.
+[899.14 --> 903.58]  One scholar that I read this week put it this way,
+[903.66 --> 907.62]  said that the letter of James ultimately has more to say
+[907.62 --> 911.22]  about the problem of the world getting into the church.
+[911.38 --> 912.94]  That James' concern is,
+[912.96 --> 913.72]  and I'll quote him here,
+[913.80 --> 914.02]  he says,
+[914.02 --> 915.18]  his readers,
+[916.28 --> 919.36]  James is concerned that his readers stop compromising
+[919.36 --> 921.44]  with worldly values and behavior
+[921.44 --> 924.96]  and give themselves wholly to the Lord.
+[926.52 --> 929.42]  What James wants for us
+[929.42 --> 933.48]  is a spiritual wholeness.
+[934.50 --> 935.26]  And in many ways,
+[935.26 --> 937.12]  in these first few verses,
+[938.02 --> 939.44]  he outlines for us
+[939.44 --> 942.30]  the path towards wholeness.
+[942.30 --> 944.02]  And in that journey,
+[944.02 --> 948.06]  says there will be hardships and trials along the way.
+[948.36 --> 949.48]  If you have that in front of you,
+[949.50 --> 950.22]  you can see it.
+[951.32 --> 953.74]  Verses two through four
+[953.74 --> 956.06]  kind of take us along this way.
+[956.14 --> 958.96]  But you have this introduction or this word,
+[959.12 --> 960.36]  consider it pure joy,
+[960.44 --> 961.30]  my brothers and sisters,
+[961.40 --> 964.14]  whenever you face trials of many kinds.
+[964.18 --> 966.76]  And we've outlined what some of those might have been.
+[966.82 --> 969.12]  Not just violence or persecution,
+[969.12 --> 970.98]  but the way that they have been ostracized,
+[971.06 --> 973.48]  the way that they have been rejected
+[973.48 --> 975.96]  by their communities or families of origin,
+[976.18 --> 978.22]  the way that they have been tempted
+[978.22 --> 980.58]  to compromise their faith and belief
+[980.58 --> 982.80]  in the culture that is around them.
+[983.42 --> 985.70]  And that trials of many kinds
+[985.70 --> 987.22]  is linked directly,
+[987.22 --> 988.30]  in verse three,
+[988.46 --> 991.76]  with the testing of your faith.
+[992.14 --> 993.22]  And these are challenges
+[993.22 --> 995.08]  to what you say you believe.
+[995.08 --> 997.82]  What you say is really important.
+[998.68 --> 999.90]  What you say really matters.
+[1000.82 --> 1001.86]  And facing these trials,
+[1002.04 --> 1003.68]  enduring these testing,
+[1003.94 --> 1006.88]  is given so that you might persevere,
+[1007.06 --> 1009.88]  so that you might develop perseverance.
+[1010.78 --> 1012.90]  And just like when you're learning
+[1012.90 --> 1014.46]  to be a long distance runner,
+[1014.60 --> 1016.40]  you've got to push through the hardship,
+[1016.60 --> 1017.98]  push through the trials.
+[1018.14 --> 1020.46]  Just like when you're learning how to do anything,
+[1020.60 --> 1021.72]  learning any new skill,
+[1021.78 --> 1023.26]  you've got to push through the failures.
+[1023.26 --> 1025.44]  You have to practice and practice and practice.
+[1025.72 --> 1026.88]  And even when you fail,
+[1026.94 --> 1029.14]  you have to get back up and try again.
+[1029.76 --> 1033.08]  Your testing of your faith develops perseverance.
+[1034.96 --> 1036.00]  And perseverance,
+[1036.32 --> 1039.40]  when you push through to the end,
+[1040.20 --> 1042.10]  must finish its work in you
+[1042.10 --> 1046.14]  so that you may be mature and complete.
+[1046.14 --> 1052.68]  This is a beautiful expression in the Greek here
+[1052.68 --> 1057.28]  that is more than just maturity
+[1057.28 --> 1059.92]  in the sense of growing old
+[1059.92 --> 1063.18]  and becoming who you are.
+[1063.42 --> 1064.30]  There's a sense,
+[1064.44 --> 1066.80]  the word there actually is the same word
+[1066.80 --> 1069.44]  from which we get the word telos or end.
+[1069.90 --> 1073.28]  This is the purpose for which you have been created,
+[1073.28 --> 1076.26]  the purpose for which you have been redeemed.
+[1076.74 --> 1078.16]  And so you face these trials
+[1078.16 --> 1080.60]  and you endure and persevere in testing
+[1080.60 --> 1085.48]  so that you might find your very purpose for existence.
+[1086.74 --> 1088.80]  And then you might be mature,
+[1089.02 --> 1092.50]  have purpose and fullness and complete.
+[1093.06 --> 1095.98]  And that word complete there is really about wholeness.
+[1096.06 --> 1097.74]  It's about having the whole lot,
+[1097.96 --> 1099.38]  literally in Greek.
+[1099.38 --> 1103.46]  that God has all of this in store for you.
+[1103.58 --> 1107.96]  This restoration to who you were designed and created to be,
+[1108.08 --> 1111.38]  this restoration to who you are as a child of God,
+[1111.48 --> 1113.24]  adopted as sons and daughters,
+[1113.44 --> 1115.14]  heirs and co-heirs with Christ.
+[1115.40 --> 1119.90]  This is God's will for you.
+[1121.66 --> 1125.10]  And it's restored to perfect fellowship
+[1125.10 --> 1127.84]  and relationship with him.
+[1129.38 --> 1131.30]  This is who we are.
+[1131.42 --> 1134.32]  This is what real faith looks like.
+[1134.40 --> 1138.38]  And the challenge is to increase our capacities to live
+[1138.38 --> 1140.18]  and to experience that.
+[1140.34 --> 1140.92]  And yet,
+[1141.68 --> 1144.84]  there are many trials,
+[1145.92 --> 1148.92]  many tests along the way,
+[1149.58 --> 1150.68]  and many temptations
+[1150.68 --> 1152.28]  to compromise
+[1152.28 --> 1154.08]  or to go a different way.
+[1154.08 --> 1155.10]  In fact,
+[1155.16 --> 1156.52]  that contrast comes out,
+[1156.56 --> 1156.76]  right?
+[1157.00 --> 1157.94]  In verse 8,
+[1158.94 --> 1160.26]  James says,
+[1161.14 --> 1161.74]  verse 7,
+[1161.94 --> 1163.44]  should not think you will receive anything from the Lord.
+[1163.52 --> 1166.20]  He is a double-minded man.
+[1167.12 --> 1167.48]  Literally,
+[1167.62 --> 1170.72]  that's a two-psyched person,
+[1170.86 --> 1173.08]  the root of our modern word psychology,
+[1173.26 --> 1173.36]  right?
+[1173.38 --> 1175.16]  Having two psyches.
+[1175.26 --> 1175.56]  And really,
+[1175.76 --> 1178.90]  the way I see it is that you're pulled in two different directions.
+[1178.90 --> 1181.66]  And that's what it means to be Christian,
+[1181.82 --> 1182.72]  living in the world,
+[1182.80 --> 1184.74]  is that we are pulled in the direction of the gospel
+[1184.74 --> 1186.50]  and godliness and holiness,
+[1186.68 --> 1189.72]  and we are pulled in the direction of the world
+[1189.72 --> 1190.64]  and sin
+[1190.64 --> 1193.40]  and anything else that might be fleeting
+[1193.40 --> 1194.92]  or fleeing.
+[1195.68 --> 1196.96]  And here we stand
+[1196.96 --> 1198.66]  in the middle,
+[1200.66 --> 1201.52]  pulled
+[1201.52 --> 1203.14]  and asked to decide
+[1203.14 --> 1204.52]  which way
+[1204.52 --> 1205.40]  will you
+[1205.40 --> 1206.30]  go.
+[1208.08 --> 1209.36]  What really is
+[1209.36 --> 1210.94]  that picture of wholeness
+[1210.94 --> 1211.88]  and faithfulness
+[1211.88 --> 1212.74]  that is compelling
+[1212.74 --> 1214.56]  and that you will pursue after?
+[1215.42 --> 1216.64]  Is it what God has?
+[1217.92 --> 1219.40]  Or is it what the world offers?
+[1221.62 --> 1223.98]  To make our faith real,
+[1224.58 --> 1225.90]  according to James,
+[1226.18 --> 1228.40]  is to be both hearers
+[1228.40 --> 1229.96]  and doers
+[1229.96 --> 1230.94]  of the word.
+[1230.94 --> 1232.12]  And that's what this series is called,
+[1232.24 --> 1233.70]  hearers and doers.
+[1233.76 --> 1235.30]  And we will focus on that
+[1235.30 --> 1237.10]  more closely later on,
+[1237.14 --> 1237.94]  but that comes from
+[1237.94 --> 1238.32]  verse
+[1238.32 --> 1239.98]  22
+[1239.98 --> 1241.30]  of chapter 1
+[1241.30 --> 1241.76]  where it says,
+[1241.88 --> 1243.40]  do not merely listen to the word
+[1243.40 --> 1245.14]  and so deceive yourselves.
+[1246.18 --> 1246.58]  Remember,
+[1246.66 --> 1247.54]  I listened to the word,
+[1247.60 --> 1248.20]  I knew the word,
+[1248.26 --> 1249.52]  but I was a functional atheist.
+[1250.62 --> 1252.44]  Do not merely listen to the word
+[1252.44 --> 1253.56]  and so deceive yourselves.
+[1254.02 --> 1254.92]  Do what
+[1254.92 --> 1255.50]  it
+[1255.50 --> 1256.34]  says.
+[1257.86 --> 1258.86]  So how do you make it real?
+[1258.86 --> 1259.42]  Well,
+[1259.42 --> 1260.38]  you hear the word
+[1260.38 --> 1261.50]  and you do it.
+[1262.08 --> 1263.54]  You have the faith
+[1263.54 --> 1264.98]  and you live it.
+[1266.20 --> 1266.68]  And look,
+[1266.70 --> 1268.70]  I know it's not easy.
+[1269.54 --> 1270.30]  And in fact,
+[1271.10 --> 1272.44]  to do this well
+[1272.44 --> 1273.60]  and comprehensively,
+[1273.66 --> 1274.60]  there will be times,
+[1274.72 --> 1275.52]  there will be circumstances,
+[1275.70 --> 1276.36]  there will be places,
+[1276.36 --> 1277.34]  and there will be people
+[1277.34 --> 1278.40]  in your life
+[1278.40 --> 1279.54]  who think you are weird,
+[1279.70 --> 1280.98]  who think you are strange,
+[1281.10 --> 1281.88]  who think that you are
+[1281.88 --> 1282.84]  the odd person out,
+[1282.84 --> 1284.72]  and they will make fun of you
+[1284.72 --> 1285.34]  for it.
+[1285.38 --> 1286.56]  They will ostracize you
+[1286.56 --> 1287.24]  for it.
+[1287.28 --> 1288.28]  They may even
+[1288.28 --> 1289.56]  persecute you
+[1289.56 --> 1290.50]  for it.
+[1292.84 --> 1294.44]  And I know that we like to think
+[1294.44 --> 1296.48]  perhaps in different categories
+[1296.48 --> 1297.76]  when we say things like
+[1297.76 --> 1299.16]  how far is too far
+[1299.16 --> 1300.78]  or when we try to think
+[1300.78 --> 1302.32]  of our faith system
+[1302.32 --> 1304.16]  strictly in these categories
+[1304.16 --> 1305.44]  of morality.
+[1305.44 --> 1308.20]  It was Tim Chester
+[1308.20 --> 1308.88]  who said
+[1308.88 --> 1310.32]  that one of our problems
+[1310.32 --> 1311.12]  is that we think
+[1311.12 --> 1311.72]  of holiness
+[1311.72 --> 1312.94]  as giving up things
+[1312.94 --> 1313.58]  we enjoy
+[1313.58 --> 1314.68]  out of a vague sense
+[1314.68 --> 1315.40]  of obligation.
+[1316.24 --> 1316.94]  But he goes on,
+[1317.00 --> 1317.62]  I am convinced
+[1317.62 --> 1318.38]  that holiness
+[1318.38 --> 1320.28]  is always good news.
+[1321.42 --> 1322.18]  And so what does it mean
+[1322.18 --> 1323.00]  to make it real?
+[1323.22 --> 1323.38]  Well,
+[1323.40 --> 1324.46]  it means to really believe
+[1324.46 --> 1325.32]  and live
+[1325.32 --> 1326.02]  that the life
+[1326.02 --> 1327.14]  that God has designed
+[1327.14 --> 1327.60]  for you,
+[1327.68 --> 1328.44]  one of holiness
+[1328.44 --> 1329.30]  and purity,
+[1329.44 --> 1331.22]  is actually better
+[1331.22 --> 1332.62]  than whatever else
+[1332.62 --> 1333.54]  the world might have
+[1333.54 --> 1334.50]  to offer you.
+[1335.18 --> 1336.12]  And that's why
+[1336.12 --> 1337.30]  James can say
+[1337.30 --> 1339.02]  consider it pure joy
+[1339.02 --> 1340.22]  my brothers and sisters
+[1340.22 --> 1341.24]  whenever you face trials
+[1341.24 --> 1341.86]  of many kinds.
+[1341.90 --> 1343.46]  Because even in the facing
+[1343.46 --> 1344.22]  of those trials,
+[1344.38 --> 1345.34]  even in the challenges
+[1345.34 --> 1346.98]  to the living out
+[1346.98 --> 1347.54]  of our faith,
+[1347.62 --> 1348.74]  to the making it real
+[1348.74 --> 1349.74]  of our faith,
+[1349.78 --> 1351.18]  it is joyful
+[1351.18 --> 1353.70]  to be found
+[1353.70 --> 1355.48]  in God
+[1355.48 --> 1357.18]  and living in the way
+[1357.18 --> 1358.66]  that he does
+[1358.66 --> 1360.04]  and has designed
+[1360.04 --> 1360.92]  for us.
+[1361.82 --> 1362.36]  And James,
+[1362.72 --> 1363.12]  then,
+[1363.24 --> 1364.44]  will take this idea
+[1364.44 --> 1365.60]  of making it real
+[1365.60 --> 1366.82]  and he will apply it
+[1366.82 --> 1367.92]  throughout the letter
+[1367.92 --> 1368.52]  and this is where
+[1368.52 --> 1369.58]  we'll spend our time
+[1369.58 --> 1370.58]  for these next number
+[1370.58 --> 1372.00]  of weeks and months
+[1372.00 --> 1373.42]  looking at these
+[1373.42 --> 1374.14]  different things.
+[1374.28 --> 1375.72]  But making it real
+[1375.72 --> 1377.38]  will cause you
+[1377.38 --> 1378.68]  to re-evaluate
+[1378.68 --> 1379.40]  how you think
+[1379.40 --> 1380.14]  about wealth
+[1380.14 --> 1381.08]  and riches,
+[1381.28 --> 1381.70]  how you think
+[1381.70 --> 1383.46]  about rich and poor.
+[1383.60 --> 1384.32]  Making it real
+[1384.32 --> 1385.30]  will cause us
+[1385.30 --> 1386.36]  to be intentional
+[1386.36 --> 1387.40]  about the language
+[1387.40 --> 1388.24]  we use,
+[1388.34 --> 1389.84]  the way that we speak
+[1389.84 --> 1390.84]  to one another
+[1390.84 --> 1393.78]  and to ourselves.
+[1395.16 --> 1396.14]  Making it real
+[1396.14 --> 1397.30]  will address
+[1397.30 --> 1398.42]  what we think
+[1398.42 --> 1399.90]  is wisdom
+[1399.90 --> 1401.04]  and what is wise
+[1401.04 --> 1402.40]  about what matters
+[1402.40 --> 1403.50]  and how we do it.
+[1404.18 --> 1404.98]  Making it real
+[1404.98 --> 1406.30]  will put in front of us
+[1406.30 --> 1407.32]  the question of humility
+[1407.32 --> 1408.90]  in life or pride.
+[1409.48 --> 1410.30]  Making it real
+[1410.30 --> 1411.10]  will ask us
+[1411.10 --> 1412.64]  to endure suffering.
+[1413.04 --> 1413.76]  Making it real
+[1413.76 --> 1415.20]  will call us
+[1415.20 --> 1416.50]  to think about
+[1416.50 --> 1417.62]  prayer
+[1417.62 --> 1419.24]  and the work
+[1419.24 --> 1419.56]  of God
+[1419.56 --> 1420.04]  in the world.
+[1421.88 --> 1422.56]  James is going
+[1422.56 --> 1423.02]  to take us
+[1423.02 --> 1423.68]  on this journey
+[1423.68 --> 1424.78]  to see that
+[1424.78 --> 1427.14]  God is real,
+[1427.26 --> 1427.88]  that Jesus
+[1427.88 --> 1429.50]  is real
+[1429.50 --> 1430.40]  and that he
+[1430.40 --> 1431.38]  changes
+[1431.38 --> 1433.02]  everything
+[1433.02 --> 1434.64]  about your life.
+[1434.64 --> 1437.62]  I want to share
+[1437.62 --> 1438.06]  with you
+[1438.06 --> 1439.86]  some words
+[1439.86 --> 1441.26]  from a young
+[1441.26 --> 1441.68]  woman.
+[1441.76 --> 1442.46]  Her name is
+[1442.46 --> 1443.76]  Jaquel Crow.
+[1444.76 --> 1445.04]  Now,
+[1445.54 --> 1446.40]  these are going
+[1446.40 --> 1447.10]  to be on the screen
+[1447.10 --> 1447.62]  but maybe don't
+[1447.62 --> 1448.08]  put them up
+[1448.08 --> 1448.66]  quite yet.
+[1450.32 --> 1451.14]  Just a little bit
+[1451.14 --> 1451.76]  of an introduction.
+[1452.90 --> 1453.50]  Jaquel Crow
+[1453.50 --> 1454.18]  wrote a book
+[1454.18 --> 1455.24]  a few years ago
+[1455.24 --> 1455.54]  called
+[1455.54 --> 1456.50]  This Changes
+[1456.50 --> 1457.22]  Everything.
+[1458.80 --> 1459.86]  Remember I said
+[1459.86 --> 1460.36]  at the beginning
+[1460.36 --> 1461.10]  I shared a little bit
+[1461.10 --> 1461.72]  of my story.
+[1461.86 --> 1463.12]  I was 18,
+[1463.22 --> 1464.24]  19 years old
+[1464.24 --> 1465.14]  in that time
+[1465.14 --> 1465.76]  of my life.
+[1466.84 --> 1467.80]  Jaquel Crow
+[1467.80 --> 1468.92]  wrote what I'm
+[1468.92 --> 1469.48]  about to read
+[1469.48 --> 1469.86]  to you
+[1469.86 --> 1470.54]  when she
+[1470.54 --> 1471.98]  was 18 years old.
+[1473.22 --> 1474.74]  She is 18 years old
+[1474.74 --> 1475.30]  and she
+[1475.30 --> 1477.68]  in this paragraph
+[1477.68 --> 1478.52]  gets it
+[1478.52 --> 1479.40]  more than
+[1479.40 --> 1481.10]  most
+[1481.10 --> 1482.42]  so-called
+[1482.42 --> 1482.84]  mature
+[1482.84 --> 1483.78]  Christian adults
+[1483.78 --> 1484.80]  that I have
+[1484.80 --> 1485.62]  interacted with.
+[1486.62 --> 1487.78]  And I am
+[1487.78 --> 1489.60]  so encouraged
+[1489.60 --> 1491.76]  by young people
+[1491.76 --> 1493.12]  who are
+[1493.12 --> 1493.98]  thinking and
+[1493.98 --> 1494.34]  believing
+[1494.34 --> 1495.46]  this way.
+[1495.78 --> 1496.40]  So let me read
+[1496.40 --> 1497.24]  these words
+[1497.24 --> 1498.06]  to you.
+[1498.14 --> 1498.64]  This is from
+[1498.64 --> 1499.78]  Jaquel Crow.
+[1499.94 --> 1500.40]  She writes,
+[1500.88 --> 1502.02]  Jesus changes
+[1502.02 --> 1503.00]  everything
+[1503.00 --> 1504.30]  about a person's
+[1504.30 --> 1504.72]  life.
+[1505.10 --> 1506.04]  From the obvious
+[1506.04 --> 1507.02]  to the unseen.
+[1507.02 --> 1508.00]  He shatters
+[1508.00 --> 1509.04]  black and white
+[1509.04 --> 1510.02]  into brilliant
+[1510.02 --> 1510.58]  color
+[1510.58 --> 1512.68]  and sacks
+[1512.68 --> 1513.42]  the sleep
+[1513.42 --> 1514.20]  until they
+[1514.20 --> 1515.00]  are wide
+[1515.00 --> 1515.66]  awake.
+[1516.34 --> 1516.66]  Jesus'
+[1517.08 --> 1517.38]  followers
+[1517.38 --> 1518.12]  don't live
+[1518.12 --> 1518.72]  like they did
+[1518.72 --> 1519.20]  before.
+[1519.20 --> 1520.24]  following him.
+[1520.34 --> 1520.96]  We don't talk
+[1520.96 --> 1521.52]  about the same
+[1521.52 --> 1522.28]  things or read
+[1522.28 --> 1522.92]  the same books.
+[1523.04 --> 1524.28]  We no longer
+[1524.28 --> 1525.22]  dress or act
+[1525.22 --> 1525.88]  or think the
+[1525.88 --> 1526.38]  same way.
+[1526.70 --> 1527.42]  Jesus makes
+[1527.42 --> 1529.04]  people 100%
+[1529.04 --> 1529.58]  new.
+[1529.72 --> 1530.38]  He takes the
+[1530.38 --> 1531.28]  spiritually dead
+[1531.28 --> 1532.00]  and makes us
+[1532.00 --> 1532.68]  thrillingly,
+[1532.98 --> 1533.44]  beautifully,
+[1533.70 --> 1534.62]  and abundantly
+[1534.62 --> 1535.70]  alive.
+[1538.34 --> 1539.12]  That's what I
+[1539.12 --> 1539.70]  want for you.
+[1541.14 --> 1541.90]  That's what it
+[1541.90 --> 1542.56]  means to make
+[1542.56 --> 1543.84]  it real.
+[1544.70 --> 1545.42]  And I am
+[1545.42 --> 1546.72]  so blessed
+[1546.72 --> 1547.70]  when we hear
+[1547.70 --> 1548.40]  stories
+[1548.40 --> 1550.30]  like that.
+[1552.36 --> 1552.94]  I don't know
+[1552.94 --> 1553.32]  how many of you
+[1553.32 --> 1553.82]  had a chance
+[1553.82 --> 1555.02]  to check out
+[1555.02 --> 1555.88]  the real talk
+[1555.88 --> 1556.70]  thing that
+[1556.70 --> 1557.28]  Pastor Kevin
+[1557.28 --> 1557.68]  did.
+[1557.68 --> 1559.78]  And there
+[1559.78 --> 1560.38]  we heard
+[1560.38 --> 1561.06]  from two young
+[1561.06 --> 1561.78]  people in our
+[1561.78 --> 1562.14]  church
+[1562.14 --> 1563.04]  who I would
+[1563.04 --> 1563.56]  put in this
+[1563.56 --> 1564.06]  category.
+[1565.06 --> 1565.92]  People who are
+[1565.92 --> 1566.98]  asking the hard
+[1566.98 --> 1567.74]  questions and who
+[1567.74 --> 1568.96]  are making it
+[1568.96 --> 1569.64]  real.
+[1569.64 --> 1577.40]  just like I
+[1577.40 --> 1578.72]  was and
+[1578.72 --> 1579.34]  continue to
+[1579.34 --> 1579.82]  wrestle with
+[1579.82 --> 1580.30]  what did it
+[1580.30 --> 1581.44]  mean that I
+[1581.44 --> 1582.10]  lived my life
+[1582.10 --> 1583.56]  that way and
+[1583.56 --> 1584.26]  it wasn't real
+[1584.26 --> 1585.14]  and the impact
+[1585.14 --> 1585.54]  that that may
+[1585.54 --> 1585.96]  have had on
+[1585.96 --> 1586.28]  the people
+[1586.28 --> 1586.92]  around me.
+[1589.76 --> 1590.40]  Continue to
+[1590.40 --> 1590.78]  ask that
+[1590.78 --> 1591.18]  question.
+[1592.30 --> 1592.98]  What does it
+[1592.98 --> 1593.48]  mean to live
+[1593.48 --> 1594.14]  my life the
+[1594.14 --> 1594.58]  way that I
+[1594.58 --> 1595.26]  do now and
+[1595.26 --> 1595.86]  what impact
+[1595.86 --> 1596.52]  will it have
+[1596.52 --> 1597.38]  on the people
+[1597.38 --> 1598.00]  around me?
+[1598.00 --> 1600.30]  I think
+[1600.30 --> 1600.68]  about my
+[1600.68 --> 1601.00]  kids.
+[1602.20 --> 1602.90]  My daughter
+[1602.90 --> 1603.50]  who is eight
+[1603.50 --> 1604.02]  years old
+[1604.02 --> 1605.60]  who I hope
+[1605.60 --> 1606.46]  will one day
+[1606.46 --> 1607.42]  sit and have
+[1607.42 --> 1608.06]  the conviction
+[1608.06 --> 1608.92]  that Ruth did
+[1608.92 --> 1609.54]  when she talked
+[1609.54 --> 1610.22]  to Pastor Kevin
+[1610.22 --> 1610.92]  about reading
+[1610.92 --> 1611.26]  the Bible
+[1611.26 --> 1611.62]  with her
+[1611.62 --> 1612.12]  friends and
+[1612.12 --> 1612.62]  about wrestling
+[1612.62 --> 1613.04]  with what it
+[1613.04 --> 1613.44]  means to be
+[1613.44 --> 1613.82]  a follower
+[1613.82 --> 1614.30]  of Jesus.
+[1617.06 --> 1617.62]  But that
+[1617.62 --> 1618.12]  starts with
+[1618.12 --> 1618.38]  me.
+[1619.48 --> 1619.94]  And that
+[1619.94 --> 1620.32]  starts with
+[1620.32 --> 1620.98]  how I live.
+[1622.60 --> 1622.88]  And it
+[1622.88 --> 1623.28]  starts with
+[1623.28 --> 1624.48]  how I am
+[1624.48 --> 1625.72]  convicted and
+[1625.72 --> 1627.60]  changed and
+[1627.60 --> 1627.84]  live a
+[1627.84 --> 1628.18]  compelling
+[1628.18 --> 1628.62]  life.
+[1629.88 --> 1630.46]  And it
+[1630.46 --> 1630.84]  starts with
+[1630.84 --> 1631.02]  you.
+[1632.34 --> 1632.96]  And how
+[1632.96 --> 1633.46]  you live.
+[1634.46 --> 1634.96]  Because the
+[1634.96 --> 1636.14]  reality is that
+[1636.14 --> 1637.20]  Jesus came and
+[1637.20 --> 1637.98]  lived the life
+[1637.98 --> 1638.74]  that I should
+[1638.74 --> 1639.14]  have lived.
+[1639.20 --> 1639.56]  And Jesus
+[1639.56 --> 1640.40]  died the death
+[1640.40 --> 1640.72]  that I
+[1640.72 --> 1641.02]  deserved.
+[1641.10 --> 1641.84]  And in his
+[1641.84 --> 1642.92]  resurrection he
+[1642.92 --> 1643.84]  has won victory
+[1643.84 --> 1644.74]  over sin and
+[1644.74 --> 1644.94]  death.
+[1645.20 --> 1645.78]  And now by
+[1645.78 --> 1646.60]  grace through
+[1646.60 --> 1647.38]  faith he
+[1647.38 --> 1648.16]  grants to
+[1648.16 --> 1649.24]  you all that
+[1649.24 --> 1651.78]  you need to
+[1651.78 --> 1653.38]  be adopted as
+[1653.38 --> 1653.76]  a son or
+[1653.76 --> 1654.18]  daughter of
+[1654.18 --> 1654.42]  God.
+[1654.64 --> 1655.22]  He gives
+[1655.22 --> 1656.00]  you perfect
+[1656.00 --> 1656.42]  righteousness.
+[1656.42 --> 1657.32]  He declares
+[1657.32 --> 1658.58]  you holy.
+[1659.86 --> 1660.30]  He's taken
+[1660.30 --> 1661.04]  from you the
+[1661.04 --> 1661.64]  punishment for
+[1661.64 --> 1662.42]  sin and this
+[1662.42 --> 1663.76]  is the reality
+[1663.76 --> 1665.00]  in which we
+[1665.00 --> 1666.16]  now live.
+[1666.26 --> 1666.94]  And so make
+[1666.94 --> 1667.54]  it real.
+[1669.40 --> 1670.28]  Live such
+[1670.28 --> 1671.90]  compelling lives
+[1671.90 --> 1672.72]  in the world
+[1672.72 --> 1673.34]  that though they
+[1673.34 --> 1673.98]  might accuse you
+[1673.98 --> 1674.56]  of doing wrong,
+[1674.64 --> 1675.06]  that though they
+[1675.06 --> 1675.86]  might think you
+[1675.86 --> 1676.52]  are weird and
+[1676.52 --> 1676.98]  strange, that
+[1676.98 --> 1677.42]  though you might
+[1677.42 --> 1678.06]  be ostracized,
+[1678.14 --> 1678.54]  that though maybe
+[1678.54 --> 1679.10]  you will lose
+[1679.10 --> 1679.76]  your job, maybe
+[1679.76 --> 1680.26]  you will lose
+[1680.26 --> 1680.68]  your friends,
+[1680.94 --> 1681.54]  live such
+[1681.54 --> 1682.98]  compelling lives
+[1682.98 --> 1683.60]  in the world
+[1683.60 --> 1684.22]  that though they
+[1684.22 --> 1684.88]  accuse you of
+[1684.88 --> 1685.78]  doing wrong, they
+[1685.78 --> 1686.48]  will see your
+[1686.48 --> 1687.58]  good deeds and
+[1687.58 --> 1689.12]  glorify God on
+[1689.12 --> 1690.18]  the day he
+[1690.18 --> 1691.04]  visits.
+[1691.66 --> 1693.54]  Make it real.
+[1696.34 --> 1697.24]  And see what
+[1697.24 --> 1699.50]  God does in
+[1699.50 --> 1701.68]  your life and
+[1701.68 --> 1702.16]  with you.
+[1703.20 --> 1703.50]  Amen?
+[1704.62 --> 1705.32]  Let's pray
+[1705.32 --> 1705.60]  together.
+[1705.60 --> 1712.18]  Lord Jesus, may
+[1712.18 --> 1714.40]  our faith be
+[1714.40 --> 1715.28]  real.
+[1715.42 --> 1716.50]  May our love be
+[1716.50 --> 1717.86]  more than words.
+[1718.56 --> 1719.20]  May what we
+[1719.20 --> 1721.20]  profess with our
+[1721.20 --> 1723.12]  mouth match how
+[1723.12 --> 1724.94]  we live in our
+[1724.94 --> 1725.78]  lifestyles.
+[1728.48 --> 1731.10]  May our lives be
+[1731.10 --> 1732.56]  so compelling,
+[1732.56 --> 1735.36]  so beautiful,
+[1736.36 --> 1737.54]  that the majesty
+[1737.54 --> 1738.90]  of your gospel,
+[1739.12 --> 1740.06]  the beauty of
+[1740.06 --> 1741.02]  your face, Lord
+[1741.02 --> 1742.36]  Jesus, is made
+[1742.36 --> 1743.76]  so abundantly
+[1743.76 --> 1744.88]  clear in all
+[1744.88 --> 1745.82]  that we do and
+[1745.82 --> 1746.38]  in all that we
+[1746.38 --> 1749.84]  say, that people
+[1749.84 --> 1751.42]  will be drawn to
+[1751.42 --> 1753.88]  you through us.
+[1755.54 --> 1756.68]  That our kids
+[1756.68 --> 1757.68]  will be drawn to
+[1757.68 --> 1759.42]  you through us.
+[1759.58 --> 1760.42]  That our neighbors
+[1760.42 --> 1761.66]  will be drawn to
+[1761.66 --> 1762.72]  you through us.
+[1762.80 --> 1763.58]  That our friends
+[1763.58 --> 1764.88]  will be drawn to
+[1764.88 --> 1765.84]  you through us.
+[1765.94 --> 1766.62]  That our brothers
+[1766.62 --> 1769.28]  and sisters will
+[1769.28 --> 1770.10]  be drawn to you
+[1770.10 --> 1771.38]  through us such
+[1771.38 --> 1772.44]  that each and
+[1772.44 --> 1773.84]  every one may
+[1773.84 --> 1775.08]  become for us
+[1775.08 --> 1776.20]  brothers and
+[1776.20 --> 1778.38]  sisters in your
+[1778.38 --> 1779.44]  name.
+[1781.44 --> 1782.80]  In your name
+[1782.80 --> 1783.56]  we pray.
+[1785.04 --> 1785.42]  Amen.
+[1785.42 --> 1785.54]  Amen.
+[1787.06 --> 1787.82]  Amen.

Palm Sunday Worship Service - Mar 28 2021_summary.txt

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+• The speaker expresses surrender and trust in a higher power, willing to follow its guidance
+• The importance of letting go of one's own ways and trusting in the spirit
+• The idea that the speaker's life is an altar for God's fire and presence
+• The need for spiritual guidance and leadership
+• The concept of breaking down worldly barriers and bringing heaven down to earth
+• A call to worship, praise, and recognition of God's presence, with a focus on hope, yearning, and turning towards Him
+• Worship and praise
+• Recognition of Jesus as Lord
+• Faith to see Jesus for who he is
+• Opening eyes, ears, hands, mouth, heart, and love to Jesus
+• Welcome and invitation to Jesus
+• Salvation and new life through Jesus
+• Praise and worship with Hosanna repeated throughout
+• Welcoming Jesus and worshiping God
+• Announcements for youth events: Real Talk and 2020 tonight, and Good Friday services
+• Easter Sunday service schedule: two services at 9am and 11am with streaming options
+• Sign-up sheet full for in-person attendance at some services
+• Worship and prayer on Palm Sunday
+• Confession and recognition of Jesus' humility as a king
+• Requests for God's presence, glory, and power in one's life
+• Praise and worship through music and song
+• Explanation of the significance of Hosanna on Palm Sunday
+• Discussion of palm branches and ancient Middle Eastern traditions
+• Introduction to Kids Corner and welcome to children in church on Palm Sunday
+• Discussion of Palm Sunday celebration
+• Review of last week's story about Jesus in the garden
+• Introduction to today's story, Peter Denies Jesus (Luke 22 and Matthew 26)
+• Retelling of events leading up to Peter's denial of Jesus
+• Peter's denial: "I don't know Jesus"
+• Discussion of how this event is part of God's plan
+• Reflection on how Peter felt about his actions
+• Questioning whether others may feel embarrassed or ashamed to be Christians
+• Peter's actions made Jesus and God sad
+• Importance of acknowledging God in daily life
+• Reasons for God creating humans (to worship him)
+• Ways to worship God beyond traditional practices
+• Examples of everyday ways to say "Hosanna" to God
+• Encouragement to think creatively about worship
+• Prayers for those who may feel silly or unsure about their faith
+• Request to give offerings in support of church budget and ministries
+• Information about special offering for Cascade Christian Counseling
+• Counselling services offered by Cascade Christian Counseling in Surrey
+• Donations help those unable to afford private Christian counselling
+• Church budget and Resonate Global Missions supported through offerings
+• Prayers for church members, their families, and missionaries around the world
+• Requests for healing, comfort, and guidance from God
+• Thanks for medical professionals and healthcare system blessings
+• Prayers for those experiencing anxiety, depression, or hardship
+• Encouragement to uplift one another in love
+• Clean hands and pure heart necessary for receiving blessing from God
+• King of glory described as strong and mighty, mighty in battle
+• Jesus enters Jerusalem on a donkey, fulfilling prophecy
+• Crowd praises God and blesses the king who comes in the name of the Lord
+• Reference to Luke 19:28-40
+• Jesus is spoken to by Pharisees who request he rebuke his disciples for their noise.
+• Jesus responds that if they keep quiet, the stones will cry out instead.
+• The speaker shares a personal story about visiting Israel and Jerusalem, including standing on the Mount of Olives looking over the city.
+• The speaker reflects on Jesus' words about Palm Sunday and imagines what it would have been like to be there.
+• The speaker recounts an emotional experience they had while walking through Jerusalem, weeping at the thought of Jesus gathering people to himself.
+• The speaker attributes the impact of this experience to their long-standing love for the story of Jesus.
+• A childhood experience with a chapel story and poem had a lasting impact
+• The speaker reflects on what it would be like to be a stone praising Jesus
+• Connection between the stones' praise and the purpose of creation
+• Jesus as the glorious king and humans created for His praise
+• Critique of self-centered living and grumbling/complaining
+• Pride and self-importance contrasted with seeking God's glory
+• The concept of selfishness and its prevalence in modern culture
+• Self-victimization as a mindset that pervades society, especially regarding identity and relationships
+• The idolatry of self-praise and how it redirects glory meant for God to oneself
+• Biblical passages (Isaiah 55, Psalm 96) highlighting the joy and celebration that comes with recognizing God's authority and righteousness
+• Becoming animate in nature (trees, stones, mountains, seas)
+• Witnessing God's glory
+• Palm Sunday and its connection to Isaiah and the Psalms
+• Jesus' worthiness of praise and glorification
+• The fulfillment of God's plan for salvation starting with Jesus' incarnation
+• Luke's gospel being a travel narrative leading to Jerusalem and the cross
+• Everything happening in the shadow of the cross from Luke 9:51 onward
+• Jesus' travel narrative from Galilee to Jerusalem on Palm Sunday
+• The significance of Jesus riding a donkey, described as a foal, on this journey
+• The cultural and historical context of the Passover week pilgrimage to Jerusalem
+• The importance of understanding why Jesus rode an animal and not walked into Jerusalem
+• Luke is crafting a story in his gospel about God's plan for salvation
+• Jesus' royal identity as Messiah (Anointed One) and sacrificial king are pronounced on Palm Sunday
+• The need for a mediator and savior is emphasized, with Jesus fulfilling this role
+• A human mediator must be more than just human; they also need to be divine, specifically God, and a king over the universe
+• Donkeys are humble and unimposing animals, but also stubborn
+• The story of Jesus riding a donkey into Jerusalem is significant
+• Jesus' use of a donkey to enter the city emphasizes his message of peace and service
+• This contrasts with traditional kings who rode horses to war
+• Luke's account in the Bible quotes Psalm 118:26, which greets the king with "Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord"
+• The phrase has its roots in Jewish tradition as a greeting for travelers to Jerusalem during festivals
+• Jesus' procession into Jerusalem is seen as a reversal of this traditional greeting, emphasizing his unique message and identity as king
+• Different depiction of Jesus as a king in Luke's telling
+• Exclusion of references to David's throne and nationalistic/militaristic themes
+• Use of palm branches and Hosanna choruses associated with earthly kings
+• People removing their symbols of power and status, laying them at Jesus' feet
+• The kingdom of Jesus being one of peace, equality, and no social distinctions
+• Salvation through Jesus' life and death
+• The king's (Jesus') mediatorial kingship
+• The kingdom of God is not limited to geography or politics
+• Jesus is the mediator king of peace for God's glory
+• The kingdom already started with Jesus' life, death, resurrection, and exaltation
+• Creation cries out in response to this spiritual kingdom
+• The citizens of the kingdom of God are described as those who are poor in spirit, meek, merciful, peacemakers, pure in heart, and hungering for righteousness.
+• In contrast to grumbling, pride, selfishness, and self-victimization, the gospel transforms people into something new through worship, humility, selflessness, and victory with Jesus.
+• The speaker emphasizes that it's a chasing after the wind to settle for anything less than what God has created and recreated us for in Jesus Christ.
+• Jesus is described as the joy of salvation, the bread of life, and the ruler over all creation.
+• The speaker encourages the audience to rise up with selfless faith and be part of a revival that will bring about the kingdom of God.
+• Singing praises and emboldened faith
+• The king of glory coming on the clouds with fire
+• Hosanna in the highest, a generation rising up
+• Selfless faith and near revival
+• Prayer for hearts to be open and love to abound
+• God's blessing for the journey of faith
+• Benediction and farewell
+• Praise and worship of God in times of darkness and suffering
+• Trust and confidence in God's goodness and sovereignty
+• Theme of "God is not dead" and His presence and power are alive within believers
+• Call to revival and the outpouring of love, hope, and healing
+• Celebration of God's name and glory

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+• Reflection on the impact of COVID-19 restrictions on Christians
+• Questioning how Christians can stand out in a world where everything is different due to COVID-19
+• Discussion of James 2, specifically verses 1-13, which emphasize treating all people equally regardless of social status
+• Commentary on how Christianity has been softened and changed over time, making it less about holiness and more about comfort and security
+• Quotes from various theologians and pastors highlighting the importance of living a life that reflects faith rather than just words.
+• James encourages believers not to show favoritism
+• Favoritism is connected to loving one's neighbor as oneself
+• Loving one's neighbor means valuing others above oneself
+• Selfishness and favoritism are closely related
+• Philippians 2 teaches humility, considering the interests of others over one's own
+• Grumbling and arguing come from selfishness and favoritism
+• Favoritism is making judgments based on external appearance and superficial realities
+• This behavior is contrary to loving one's neighbor as commanded by James and Jesus
+• People often show favoritism without realizing it, even unconsciously
+• Judgments are made in a matter of seconds, often based on physical appearance or social status
+• Favoritism can lead to assumptions that some people deserve more respect or attention than others
+• Christians should treat each other differently and engage in conversations with humility and openness
+• Christians must live differently from the world, being distinct in their values and behavior
+• Polarization has increased in society, leading to a tendency to isolate oneself within echo chambers
+• This isolation makes it harder for people to hear opposing views or perspectives that challenge their comfort zones
+• The Bible teaches that showing favoritism is sinful and disrespects others
+• Christians are called to live mercifully, rather than judging others
+• Through faith in Jesus Christ, believers have been given new life and can live freely under God's law
+• Mercy triumphs over judgment in the life of a believer
+• The church must be different from the world, demonstrating love and mercy to all people
+• The congregation is concerned with being perceived as different from others outside of their church community.
+• They acknowledge that they often prioritize comfort and safety over following God's truth.
+• The congregation prays for God to send them out as ambassadors of reconciliation and emissaries of His kingdom, to live differently in a world of indifference.
+• They ask God to convict those around them through their actions and lives.
+• The congregation also asks for God to open their eyes to areas where they have shown favoritism or been selfish.

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+[0.00 --> 6.68]  as we begin here uh this morning i just want to uh before we jump into the text just take a moment
+[6.68 --> 15.20]  uh and say to you all here present and to you uh watching happy covidversary uh it has been
+[15.20 --> 23.96]  one year of covid restrictions and different versions of restrictions and the lockdown and
+[23.96 --> 32.64]  the like uh and this has been a really strange and weird and hard and trying time for so many of us
+[32.64 --> 42.78]  for so many different reasons and given that it's been a year now it's given pause for at least me
+[42.78 --> 48.54]  to reflect and perhaps you as well on what has this year been like
+[48.54 --> 57.92]  i'm starting to wonder about the question as christians in the world today when everything
+[57.92 --> 64.08]  else is different because of covid what makes us different
+[64.08 --> 72.42]  so when everything else is already different and changed how do we as christians stand out
+[72.42 --> 77.80]  for the glory of god and the revealing of his kingdom come and his kingdom coming
+[77.80 --> 88.28]  and i think it really begs the question when the world outside of the church when those people
+[88.28 --> 94.60]  who do not profess to be christian when they look at us as christians what do they see
+[94.60 --> 103.16]  and in the face of covid and all the anxieties around that do they see peace in the face of
+[103.16 --> 107.80]  restrictions and ongoing restrictions do they see humility
+[107.80 --> 119.80]  in the face of hardship and loneliness do they see a community that comes together in unique and
+[119.80 --> 126.72]  trying and special ways to bring encouragement and life and support when everything is different
+[126.72 --> 130.72]  what makes us different
+[130.72 --> 134.96]  and so happy anniversary
+[134.96 --> 139.76]  think about that question as we come to james
+[139.76 --> 143.04]  this morning because james
+[143.04 --> 146.76]  is asking us that very question
+[146.76 --> 148.40]  what makes you
+[148.40 --> 149.60]  different
+[149.60 --> 153.20]  this morning we're going to read from james 2
+[153.20 --> 155.60]  we're going to read verse 1 through 13
+[155.60 --> 161.76]  really do encourage you to have a bible in your hand or on your phone or whatever device you are using
+[161.76 --> 166.96]  have that up pull it up have it beside you it will be on the screen as we go through it but we'll
+[166.96 --> 169.52]  jump back and actually jump around a little bit
+[170.32 --> 170.72]  morning
+[170.72 --> 173.60]  so james 2
+[173.60 --> 184.88]  my brothers and sisters believers in our glorious lord jesus christ must not show favoritism
+[186.96 --> 194.48]  suppose a man comes into your meetings wearing a gold ring and fine clothes and a poor man in filthy old
+[194.48 --> 195.84]  clothes also comes in
+[197.20 --> 203.44]  if you show special attention to the man wearing fine clothes and say here's a good seat for you
+[203.60 --> 210.40]  but say to the poor man you stand here or sit on the floor by my feet
+[211.12 --> 216.72]  have you not discriminated among yourselves and become judges with evil thoughts
+[218.16 --> 226.72]  listen my dear brothers and sisters has not god chosen those who are poor in the eyes of the world to be rich in faith
+[226.72 --> 230.08]  and to inherit the kingdom he promised to those who love him
+[230.08 --> 239.60]  but you have dishonored poor is it not the rich who are exploiting you are they not the ones who
+[239.60 --> 244.00]  are dragging you into court are they not the ones who are blaspheming the noble name of him who is
+[244.96 --> 253.68]  of him to whom you belong if you keep the royal law found in scripture love your neighbor as yourself you are doing right
+[253.68 --> 260.00]  but if you show favoritism you sin and are convicted by the law as lawbreakers
+[261.68 --> 267.28]  whoever keeps the whole law and yet stumbles at just one point is guilty of breaking all of it
+[268.32 --> 272.56]  for he who said you shall not commit adultery also said you shall not murder
+[272.56 --> 282.88]  if you do not commit adultery but do commit murder you have become a lawbreaker speak and act as those who
+[282.88 --> 289.84]  are going to be judged by the law that gives freedom because judgment without mercy will be shown to
+[289.84 --> 299.12]  anyone who has not been merciful mercy triumphs over judgment this is the word of the lord
+[299.12 --> 315.20]  soren kirkagard is a 19th century danish philosopher and theologian and he says
+[316.32 --> 325.12]  the human race in the course of time has taken the liberty of softening christianity until at least we
+[325.12 --> 332.16]  have contrived to make it exactly the opposite of what it was in the new testament
+[335.20 --> 342.64]  in james 1 verse 27 and pastor kevin led us in this last week he writes religion that god our father
+[342.64 --> 350.40]  accepts as pure and faultless is this and then he goes to keep oneself from being polluted by the world
+[350.40 --> 358.40]  and we've seen it here in this series before right that the james is calling us to holiness
+[359.36 --> 367.20]  and holiness is defined as being set apart from the rest of the world holiness is is going against the grain
+[367.20 --> 374.48]  as pastor kevin said last week holiness is going against the current of the western story
+[374.48 --> 383.52]  right because we are being pulled along and shaped in ways that we don't even realize and as christians we have to learn
+[383.52 --> 388.64]  first how to stand against that tide and then how to walk upstream
+[390.56 --> 396.88]  but the sad truth is that most of us don't really want to learn
+[396.88 --> 403.04]  it's too much work right we say things like life is already too hard
+[404.16 --> 409.60]  going full well that that's just an excuse to stand in our apathy or to be carried away
+[411.28 --> 418.72]  i once heard someone say that everything we do we do to increase our security and comfort
+[418.72 --> 426.16]  that's the goal of the western story and as christians believing in the west as those who
+[426.16 --> 432.16]  profess to be christians in the west right in our comfortable and progressive society of canada
+[432.16 --> 436.72]  we are just as guilty of living that reality
+[438.72 --> 445.68]  one of my uh most loved writers a pastor and theologian by the name of david platt he says
+[445.68 --> 456.48]  we want christianity and we want church on our terms according to our preferences aligning with our
+[456.48 --> 463.20]  lifestyles we are a people happy to go to church just as long as nothing in our lives has to change
+[466.16 --> 472.56]  martin luther in the 16th century said a religion that gives nothing costs nothing and suffers nothing
+[472.56 --> 476.08]  is worth nothing
+[476.08 --> 483.92]  carl bart theologian 20th century said the word became flesh and then through theologians it became words again
+[487.44 --> 495.20]  in this series in the book of james we are challenging each other god is speaking into our
+[495.20 --> 506.24]  lives challenging us to make our faith more than words we want to be hearers and doers we want to make
+[506.24 --> 518.72]  our faith real and to live lives out of that new reality after two james shows us another one of the ways to do that
+[518.72 --> 527.36]  so right here at the beginning i want to show you sort of my thesis right what i believe that james is
+[527.36 --> 534.88]  encouraging us to and to do that we're going to sort of pull on three verses from the text and we're going
+[534.88 --> 540.40]  to limit ourselves this morning to those three verses and so with your bibles look at verse one
+[540.40 --> 549.28]  james writes my brothers and sisters believers in our glorious lord jesus christ must not show favoritism
+[551.28 --> 560.00]  and then james gives some examples of what that might look like and then in verses five through seven
+[560.00 --> 566.88]  he gets some questions that start to reveal why and how god's kingdom economic looks a little bit different
+[566.88 --> 574.16]  and then in verse eight and nine we read if you really keep the royal law found in scripture love your
+[574.16 --> 583.68]  neighbor as yourself you are doing right but if you show favoritism you sin and are convicted by the law
+[584.32 --> 596.32]  as lawbreakers and it is this thread that i want to pull on with you today right the thread that runs
+[596.32 --> 606.40]  through love your neighbor as yourself and connects that to not showing favoritism let me put it like this
+[606.96 --> 615.20]  james is connecting here right the the second of the greatest commandments to love your neighbor as
+[615.20 --> 623.36]  yourself he is connecting that with this idea of not showing favoritism so one of the ways that we
+[623.36 --> 629.76]  don't show favoritism is by loving our neighbor whoever that may be now there's a logical structure
+[629.76 --> 633.60]  to the point that i'm making here and it might be hard to follow and so i've got this image that we're
+[633.60 --> 639.20]  going to put on screen in just a second here that's going to help you sort of see the steps of this point
+[639.20 --> 645.92]  that i'm making and you can follow the steps as that appears on screen and as you see it on screen
+[645.92 --> 653.44]  there just know that lanae that l-y-n-a is an acronym for love your neighbor as yourself so when i say lanae
+[653.44 --> 661.12]  i'm saying love your neighbor as yourself so first lanae is equal to not showing favoritism
+[663.44 --> 669.92]  and since lanae is also equal to not being about yourself that is selflessness
+[669.92 --> 677.60]  therefore by the transitive property or if you've studied logic the law of syllogism
+[677.60 --> 686.32]  right selflessness is not showing favoritism and then so to say it without the negation to say
+[686.32 --> 694.64]  positively we can conclude that favoritism is ultimately a form of self-ish yes
+[694.64 --> 700.96]  now i get that that might appear complicated and that not everyone follows those sort of
+[701.60 --> 705.44]  logical syllogistic structures in the way that they want so let me put it another way because
+[705.44 --> 711.36]  i really do want you to see this this morning and so if you have your bibles i want you to jump to
+[711.36 --> 716.96]  philippians 2. now if you don't philippians is a couple books before james and so just flip
+[716.96 --> 721.68]  to the left as it were or type it in your search bar philippians 2.
+[721.68 --> 730.48]  now uh two things before i read into this first of all philippians is one of my favorite books in
+[730.48 --> 734.80]  the bible and so when i'm looking to make a point you will learn that i probably end up back in
+[734.80 --> 739.84]  philippians pretty regularly two i think this is particularly pertinent for us because i know
+[739.84 --> 745.52]  there's a bible study or two that is from our church studying philippians right now and so all
+[745.52 --> 749.12]  these things are coming together in the work of the spirit philippians 2
+[751.44 --> 756.00]  paul there writes saying if you have any encouragement for being united with christ
+[756.00 --> 760.16]  any comfort from his love if any common sharing in the spirit if any tenderness
+[760.16 --> 766.32]  and compassion really what he is saying there is if you are christian if you are part of this
+[766.32 --> 771.92]  fellowship of believers the body of christ if that is you then make my joy complete by being
+[771.92 --> 775.92]  like-minded and having the same love being one in spirit and of one mind and here it is
+[776.48 --> 787.04]  do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit rather in humility value others above yourselves
+[787.04 --> 795.84]  not looking to your own interests but each of you to the interests of others then we get this beautiful
+[795.84 --> 803.92]  picture of what that looks like and that looks like jesus all right paul continues in your relationship
+[803.92 --> 809.68]  with one another have the same mindset as christ jesus who being in very nature god did not consider
+[809.68 --> 815.36]  equality with god something to be used for his own advantage rather he made himself nothing taking on the
+[815.36 --> 820.32]  very nature of a servant being made in human likeness and being found in appearance as a man he humbled
+[820.32 --> 827.84]  himself and became obedient to death even death on the cross and here's where i want you to to go next
+[827.84 --> 835.44]  look at verse 14 do everything without grumbling or arguing
+[838.24 --> 844.96]  so do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit rather in humility consider every value others above
+[844.96 --> 848.88]  yourselves not looking to your own interests but to each of you to the interests of others and then
+[848.88 --> 858.16]  verse 14 that attitude of being like jesus that attitude of humility manifests itself in doing everything
+[858.16 --> 861.84]  without grumbling or arguing
+[864.80 --> 875.12]  grumbling comes from selfishness right i should get better i should be treated better i should have better
+[875.12 --> 883.68]  this should be easier or whatever form your grumbling takes right arguing comes from selfishness you need
+[883.68 --> 891.68]  to see it my way and if you just saw it my way boy this this all just be easier easier for me anyway
+[892.96 --> 900.72]  right likewise with favoritism we treat certain others better because we believe they will give us more
+[900.72 --> 906.40]  more that they will have a greater benefit to me right that i will get more out of this relationship
+[906.40 --> 913.04]  than i will out of that relationship so i'm going to focus my attention my efforts here we favor others
+[913.04 --> 919.04]  because we believe that they are safer or because they're less likely to make us uncomfortable
+[920.16 --> 924.24]  remember that idea that we do everything to be comfortable and safe
+[924.24 --> 935.92]  that's favoritism in james the word that he uses uh in greek or favoritism when he says believers in
+[935.92 --> 941.36]  our glorious lord jesus christ must not show favoritism that word favoritism literally means
+[941.36 --> 948.32]  to receive according to the face or to to lift up someone's face and the idea behind that word image
+[948.32 --> 953.76]  right is that we exalt someone or we make much of them we treat them differently or with more respect
+[953.76 --> 958.72]  because of their face because of the way that they look literally or because of the way that they
+[958.72 --> 965.52]  look in society right this person has power this person has status and so i'm going to treat them
+[965.52 --> 974.40]  differently right favoritism is to make judgments based on external appearance on superficial realities
+[974.40 --> 982.00]  and judging a person prejudicing them because of these superficial realities is not in any way
+[982.00 --> 991.12]  how you love your neighbor that's what james is now in james particular context it was about the wealthy
+[991.12 --> 996.88]  and the poor right and in a society uh that thought the wealthy were wealthy because they were being
+[996.88 --> 1005.36]  rewarded by god and blessed by god jesus comes and says blessed are the poor in a society that understood
+[1005.36 --> 1012.64]  power and status and the right to or as the right to rule jesus comes and says whoever wants to be great
+[1012.64 --> 1019.04]  among you must become the least that the last shall be first and the first shall be last
+[1020.48 --> 1028.40]  and we get that sort of application right in in our day too but favoritism also shows up in so many ways
+[1028.40 --> 1036.08]  in our lives we make snap judgments about people for what they wear about their physical appearance
+[1036.08 --> 1044.24]  the color of their skin or their physical ability on and on it goes in fact neuroscientists have shown
+[1044.24 --> 1050.88]  that it takes less than one tenth of a second to make a judgment about someone based solely on what
+[1050.88 --> 1058.72]  you see so much so that it can be hard for those people to actually overcome your preconceived notions
+[1058.72 --> 1062.72]  even though you made them with literally zero real intelligence about them
+[1064.96 --> 1073.28]  and you see it working out too right and and how you can actually be surprised when your snap judgment
+[1073.28 --> 1078.08]  and your preconceived ideas doesn't match the reality of the person in front of you once you start
+[1078.08 --> 1084.16]  talking to them or once you get to know them and the fact that you are surprised is indicative of
+[1084.16 --> 1089.52]  something here the fact that you are surprised is indicative of the kind of weight that we give our
+[1089.52 --> 1097.20]  prejudices more than the reality of the person standing in front of us okay let me let me illustrate this
+[1097.20 --> 1103.76]  in a in a really practical way and some of you are going to be probably made uncomfortable
+[1103.76 --> 1110.32]  and by this and i want to encourage you to live in that uncomfortability for a moment
+[1112.16 --> 1119.12]  so let's say it's your first day at a new job or at school or or whatever and lunch comes up and it's
+[1119.12 --> 1126.24]  time to go into the lunchroom walking into the lunchroom you see a group of people who are ethnically
+[1126.24 --> 1133.68]  like you and a group of people who are ethnically different than you each at their own table and
+[1133.68 --> 1141.84]  what do you instinctively do you move towards the group of people that are like you in one tenth of
+[1141.84 --> 1148.48]  one second you've made a decision but why or you don't know anything about either one of those groups
+[1149.36 --> 1154.64]  and look i don't want to oversimplify it and if you're listening to this and you are beginning that
+[1154.64 --> 1159.12]  justification train already if you're starting to justify what you would do and why you would do it
+[1159.12 --> 1163.52]  what about this or what about this or you don't know this part of the story of course i did that
+[1166.08 --> 1172.00]  be aware because you you in oversimplifying might be finding trying to find a way to
+[1172.00 --> 1177.28]  not be convicted by what we're saying here but again i don't want to oversimplify it but really simply
+[1177.28 --> 1183.28]  at the speed of thought in that one tenth of one second in your brain this happens you walk in
+[1183.28 --> 1187.52]  you see that one group is like you and you see that one group is not and your brain says that
+[1187.52 --> 1192.72]  group that is like me is safer and therefore they are more comfortable and that more comfortable means
+[1192.72 --> 1198.80]  that there's more for me to gain and then the group that is not like me is not safe and therefore
+[1198.80 --> 1203.20]  not comfortable and since they are not safe nor comfortable then i have nothing to gain
+[1203.20 --> 1213.60]  it is to that sort of subconscious and pre-conscious way of acting and thinking in the world that james
+[1213.60 --> 1225.36]  and jesus says no believers in our glorious lord jesus christ will not act that way and look i know
+[1225.36 --> 1231.20]  that most of us probably all of us will say that we wouldn't show favoritism like that or we shouldn't
+[1231.20 --> 1239.28]  show favoritism like that especially in that kind of example and yet i also know every one of us does
+[1242.64 --> 1249.84]  and it goes deeper still and not only are we guilty of showing favoritism we are guilty of assuming we
+[1249.84 --> 1256.96]  deserve favoritism if we deserve preferential treatment because of some sort of external realities
+[1256.96 --> 1268.40]  i can't tell you how many times i hear something like i have been part of this group be at a church or
+[1268.40 --> 1275.52]  anything else doesn't matter what for so long i deserve this or you should the expectation is you
+[1275.52 --> 1282.56]  should listen to me more right um i don't know all of you as well as i would like to yet and so you're
+[1282.56 --> 1287.68]  probably not like this um he says as a caveat knowing that you probably are
+[1290.80 --> 1300.08]  you see this with people who start churches charter members people who literally built this place with
+[1300.08 --> 1304.16]  their own hands where if you looked closely enough you would find their blood stains on the walls
+[1304.16 --> 1307.84]  somewhere because they are volunteers and they don't know how to use a hammer but still they did it
+[1307.84 --> 1316.80]  they say i've been here for 34 years since the beginning and what's the implication you haven't put the
+[1316.80 --> 1326.72]  same kind of time in that i have my opinion matters more my desire matters more or people
+[1328.88 --> 1336.00]  will say things like everything we do we only ever do for the young people
+[1336.00 --> 1343.76]  what's the implication start taking me more seriously or young people say everything we do
+[1343.76 --> 1348.08]  the only thing we ever do is for all the old people that's an interesting dynamic itself right
+[1348.72 --> 1356.40]  but what's the implication i deserve more and here's the reality of course every one of these groups
+[1356.40 --> 1361.68]  deserves more but it's not that we deserve more so much as that we deserve different we ought to be
+[1361.68 --> 1366.40]  treating each other differently we ought to be engaging in these sorts of conversations differently
+[1366.40 --> 1373.84]  because that's what it means to be christian whether you are a pastor or a pauper we are the same
+[1377.20 --> 1385.52]  and we ought to treat each other differently whether it's ethnicity or clothes whether it's employment
+[1385.52 --> 1393.04]  or not whether it is age or gender position or title christians must be different than the world around us
+[1394.80 --> 1402.64]  and look in in today's world there seems to be more and more polarization right we're talking about
+[1402.64 --> 1407.76]  covid anniversary in the last year how many times have you heard that word polarized society
+[1407.76 --> 1416.08]  right more than in the previous at least 37 years of my life that i've ever heard it and with this
+[1416.08 --> 1421.84]  polarization comes this increased desire and temptation to sort of circle the wagons
+[1423.12 --> 1431.12]  right to gather more and more in our closed circles and right now especially right we exist online but online
+[1431.12 --> 1438.80]  existence is always an echo chamber but quite literally the google algorithm that controls your
+[1438.80 --> 1445.60]  online engine is designed to make you click further and longer and to stay engaged longer and so it is
+[1445.60 --> 1452.64]  designed to present to you your stereotypes and your pre-existing notions so that you will go further down
+[1452.64 --> 1458.32]  that rabbit hole and so what ends up happening is that circle of wagons just gets tighter and tighter and
+[1458.32 --> 1462.64]  tighter and that echo chamber just gets smaller and smaller and smaller and all of a sudden we're not
+[1462.64 --> 1469.12]  listening to any different voices or hearing any other perspectives because other people's ideas make me
+[1469.12 --> 1478.24]  uncomfortable other people challenge my status quo and whether we recognize it or not we have carefully
+[1478.24 --> 1483.12]  manicured our lives to increase our safety and comfort in the world
+[1483.12 --> 1486.24]  our faith in the world
+[1486.24 --> 1494.88]  but today if you are christian if your faith is real that has got to stop
+[1496.32 --> 1508.16]  let me read it again so that it it hits harder if you show favoritism you sin and are convicted by the law as
+[1508.16 --> 1519.60]  lawbreakers favoritism is selfishness expressed and applied and selfishness is the root of all sin in your
+[1519.60 --> 1526.16]  life favoritism disrespects people and ultimately favoritism dishonors god
+[1528.24 --> 1537.20]  instead look at what james says james says to speak and act as those who are going to be judged by the law
+[1537.20 --> 1543.52]  that gives freedom mercy triumphs over judgment
+[1545.36 --> 1548.56]  does mercy triumph over judgment in your life
+[1550.72 --> 1558.32]  because in the gospel of jesus mercy triumphed over judgment for your life
+[1558.32 --> 1569.52]  the simple reality in front of us this morning is that we each and every one are more sinful than we could ever
+[1570.08 --> 1570.72]  imagine
+[1572.48 --> 1575.52]  more sinful than we would ever dare to admit
+[1577.20 --> 1577.76]  and yet
+[1579.12 --> 1584.40]  we are more loved than we could ever know possible
+[1584.40 --> 1592.80]  and out of god's great love for us jesus christ came into the world and he lived the life i should
+[1592.80 --> 1604.64]  have lived and he died the death that i deserve mercy triumphs over judgment on the cross and god now calls you out of darkness into his wonderful light
+[1604.64 --> 1613.20]  god calls you now out of the death of worldliness into new life in his kingdom and that looks different
+[1613.20 --> 1618.16]  and it looks different because finally and maybe for the first time you are actually alive
+[1619.68 --> 1624.80]  actually really living in christ jesus
+[1624.80 --> 1630.40]  and so when you want to know what that life looks like
+[1631.60 --> 1638.64]  but one it looks like being alive and being alive looks like mercy
+[1640.16 --> 1640.96]  it looks different
+[1642.96 --> 1646.24]  it's the law that gives freedom
+[1646.24 --> 1647.92]  now
+[1647.92 --> 1649.76]  i want to be really clear because there is
+[1651.52 --> 1661.28]  a presumption here in james's letter that that may not be obvious to all of us as we read through this book or as we read through many of these books but
+[1661.36 --> 1667.76]  but notice the beginning of our text starts with believers in our glorious lord jesus christ james is
+[1667.76 --> 1668.88]  presuming
+[1668.88 --> 1674.88]  that his readers that the people who are hearing this book just like i want to presume that you
+[1674.88 --> 1679.04]  are already believers in our glorious lord jesus christ
+[1679.60 --> 1684.80]  and that's the only reason why i want to then say this is what your life ought to look like
+[1685.60 --> 1692.56]  because only after you have received the gracious gift of god that is faith in christ jesus only after
+[1692.56 --> 1699.76]  have you been as only after that you have been raised from death into newness of life can you actually live
+[1699.76 --> 1710.24]  this kind of life only after you have been transformed and brought into the body and the blood of jesus christ to be his body his bride
+[1711.60 --> 1712.64]  can you look at the law
+[1713.68 --> 1715.44]  and say there is
+[1716.24 --> 1718.24]  freedom
+[1720.00 --> 1721.76]  before that new life
+[1723.20 --> 1726.00]  we look at the law and we say there is burden
+[1726.00 --> 1727.60]  there is
+[1727.60 --> 1734.80]  there is hardship there is sin being transformed into transgression as we are made actively aware of all
+[1734.80 --> 1739.12]  those places that we have fallen short the glory of god
+[1741.92 --> 1745.28]  but in the power of the spirit
+[1746.56 --> 1755.84]  in the power of new life precisely because mercy has triumphed over judgment in you and for you
+[1755.84 --> 1761.44]  the church is made
+[1762.08 --> 1762.64]  different
+[1763.84 --> 1765.28]  the church must be
+[1765.92 --> 1766.32]  different
+[1767.12 --> 1773.60]  when it comes to race the church must be different when it comes to power and positions in society the
+[1773.60 --> 1779.76]  church must be different christians must be different and so when it comes to politics
+[1779.76 --> 1789.44]  christians must be different when it comes to people all people everywhere christians must be different because christians are
+[1789.44 --> 1791.12]  different
+[1795.04 --> 1795.60]  embrace
+[1797.04 --> 1797.84]  your difference
+[1801.04 --> 1801.60]  embrace
+[1801.60 --> 1804.24]  and know
+[1804.24 --> 1809.04]  and know what it means to be a lavishly loved child
+[1809.04 --> 1810.48]  father
+[1810.48 --> 1813.28]  and embrace
+[1813.28 --> 1816.56]  what it means that all of us
+[1818.56 --> 1819.52]  need his mercy
+[1819.52 --> 1822.40]  and that in him
+[1822.40 --> 1824.64]  we are all
+[1824.64 --> 1825.92]  one
+[1825.92 --> 1827.12]  one
+[1827.12 --> 1828.08]  go
+[1828.08 --> 1830.00]  and be different
+[1830.64 --> 1831.92]  by making your faith
+[1832.64 --> 1832.96]  real
+[1835.20 --> 1836.64]  my prayer is that today
+[1837.84 --> 1839.28]  and every day going forward
+[1840.48 --> 1841.92]  when the people outside of
+[1842.56 --> 1844.40]  the church look at us
+[1845.20 --> 1846.48]  when everything else is different
+[1846.48 --> 1847.68]  they will see us
+[1847.68 --> 1850.40]  they will see you
+[1851.76 --> 1852.48]  as different
+[1853.92 --> 1854.32]  amen
+[1854.88 --> 1855.60]  let's pray together
+[1863.04 --> 1863.68]  lord jesus
+[1866.16 --> 1867.44]  we confess to you
+[1867.44 --> 1871.52]  that in so many areas of our lives
+[1871.52 --> 1873.04]  in every area of our life
+[1873.68 --> 1878.72]  we have given into the temptation to make things safer and more comfortable for us
+[1879.68 --> 1885.52]  and we have not heard your truth when you said that in this world we will have trouble
+[1888.40 --> 1895.68]  we've not heard the the the reality that recognizes that anyone who desires to be holy
+[1895.68 --> 1898.24]  will be persecuted
+[1901.04 --> 1902.40]  we've not heard the call
+[1903.28 --> 1904.16]  to be different
+[1905.92 --> 1907.92]  in a world of indifference
+[1910.16 --> 1916.72]  and so lord god instead of circling the wagons we pray that you would send us out
+[1918.08 --> 1920.40]  as ambassadors of reconciliation
+[1921.44 --> 1925.60]  we pray that you would send us out as emissaries of your kingdom
+[1925.60 --> 1927.44]  come and your kingdom coming
+[1927.44 --> 1934.64]  and that when every single person looks at us they would see something different and though
+[1934.64 --> 1936.32]  they cannot understand it
+[1937.52 --> 1940.56]  though it might even offend their sensibilities
+[1942.24 --> 1943.36]  may they be convicted
+[1943.36 --> 1944.96]  by who you are
+[1944.96 --> 1946.96]  and what you are doing
+[1948.56 --> 1952.48]  open our eyes lord god to the ways that we have shown favoritism
+[1953.52 --> 1959.28]  open our eyes lord god to the ways that we have been selfish in our living
+[1959.28 --> 1966.40]  and by your spirit and the newness of life that you have granted to us lord jesus servant king
+[1967.44 --> 1973.84]  may we live as you have lived may our attitudes be the same
+[1973.84 --> 1985.68]  in whose name is christ jesus in whose name we pray amen amen

Praise & Prayer - Nov. 21, 2021 Evening_summary.txt

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+• The need for revival in personal hearts and across the land
+• The importance of lifting one's voice to say amen
+• Holding onto the Spirit and the Word of God
+• Calling on God to move and expressing confidence that He will
+• Singing a hymn, "Arise, My Soul", about redemption and salvation through Jesus Christ
+• Expressing gratitude for forgiveness and reconciliation with God
+• Praying for continued confidence in one's relationship with God
+• Introduction to Praise and Prayer evening
+• Description of Praise and Prayer goals and format
+• Singing and worship songs, including "I Raise a Hallelujah"
+• Call to action: singing in the presence of enemies, louder than unbelief
+• Reflection on God's power and glory, including cleaning hosts of heaven and making kings bow down
+• Invitation to behold and worship God
+• Worship and praise for a holy God
+• Praise for God's acts of power and greatness
+• Recognition of God as creator and guide
+• Request to feel God's presence and acceptance
+• Acknowledgement of human limitations and need for comfort in worship
+• Desire for closeness to God and obedience
+• Reflection on the mystery of Christ's incarnation
+• Christ's suffering and sinlessness
+• The true and better Adam, Jesus Christ
+• Redemption through Christ's sacrifice on the cross
+• Christ's resurrection and power
+• Hope of deliverance and future glory
+• Worship and praise of God's name
+• Trials and hardships, but God's goodness in them
+• Praise and worship in all circumstances
+• Worship and praise to God in His presence
+• Longing for hearts to receive and ears to hear God's words
+• Gathering together as a community to worship and experience heaven on earth
+• Glimpsing the reason God created the world: to glorify Him and enjoy relationship with Him forever
+• Participating in God's purpose through mission, proclaiming the gospel, and works of justice and mercy
+• Waiting for Jesus' return, praying for His quick coming, and longing to see His glory.
+• Worship and praise of God
+• Quote from 1 Chronicles 16:23-31 about proclaiming God's salvation and glory
+• Reference to the Lamb who was slain and the throne in heaven
+• Mention of angels singing and creatures in heaven worshiping God
+• Jesus coming on the clouds and kings bowing down
+• God as the Lion, the Lion of Judah, roaring with power and fighting battles
+• Every knee will bow before Him
+• Jesus as the hope, strength, peace, and unfailing promise of God's presence
+• Promises made by God
+• Victory over the enemy
+• Trust in God's unfailing nature
+• Praise to God for being good and present
+• Encouragement from Pastor Chris and blessing before final song
+• Future plans for praise and prayer services
+• Call to receive blessings from God
+• Names and titles of God (Jehovah, Elohim, The Great I Am, The Risen Man, Comforter and King)
+• Desire to be filled with spiritual fire
+• Purpose to worship God alone
+• Request to open up one's soul for worship and adoration
+• Aspiration to be a fragrance offered to God's throne
+• Repeated invocation of God's name
+• Mention of the comfort and kingship of God

Praise & Prayer - Nov. 21, 2021 Evening_transcript.txt

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+[0.00 --> 10.00] 조심
+[30.00 --> 32.00]  I'm on a way for me.
+[33.56 --> 39.48]  Everybody looking for a revival in our own hearts and across the land.
+[39.78 --> 42.56]  Everybody looking for a revival.
+[42.96 --> 45.68]  Lift up your voices and say amen.
+[45.92 --> 48.66]  Lift up your voices and say amen.
+[48.66 --> 52.02]  You can work all you want, but you might not see it.
+[52.20 --> 54.96]  Give all you got, but it can't be lost.
+[55.26 --> 58.18]  Try everything, but you best believe it.
+[58.18 --> 61.24]  Hold me by the Spirit and the Word of God.
+[61.36 --> 64.08]  Hold me by the Spirit and the Word of God.
+[64.22 --> 65.72]  Come with me.
+[66.84 --> 68.94]  Come on with me.
+[70.76 --> 76.66]  Everybody here looking for a revival in our own hearts and across the land.
+[76.66 --> 79.66]  Everybody looking for a revival.
+[80.06 --> 82.86]  Lift up your voices and say amen.
+[83.02 --> 85.84]  Lift up your voices and say amen.
+[85.84 --> 87.84]  I said amen.
+[89.12 --> 89.90]  Hold me by the Spirit and the Word of God.
+[89.90 --> 91.90]  I said amen.
+[91.90 --> 94.06]  I said amen.
+[95.32 --> 98.32]  God is gonna move and there ain't no doubt.
+[98.48 --> 101.24]  God is gonna move and there ain't no doubt.
+[101.36 --> 102.90]  Come with me.
+[103.90 --> 105.88]  Come on with me.
+[105.88 --> 109.76]  God is gonna move and there ain't no doubt.
+[109.76 --> 111.06]  God is gonna move and there ain't no doubt.
+[111.06 --> 111.48]  That ain't no doubt.
+[113.92 --> 116.84]  Anybody looking for a revival.
+[116.84 --> 118.52]  Lift up your voice.
+[118.52 --> 120.24]  Lift up your voice.
+[120.24 --> 123.06]  Anybody here looking for revival.
+[123.06 --> 126.10]  Head on our own hearts and across the land.
+[126.34 --> 129.20]  Anybody looking for a revival.
+[129.60 --> 132.20]  Lift up your voices and say amen.
+[132.20 --> 136.26]  Oh, amen
+[136.26 --> 139.14]  We're looking for another
+[139.14 --> 144.58]  Amen, amen
+[144.58 --> 149.52]  Brothers and sisters
+[149.52 --> 151.74]  Let me sing now
+[162.20 --> 192.18]  Let me sing now
+[192.20 --> 222.18]  Let me sing now
+[222.20 --> 224.20]  Let me sing now
+[224.20 --> 232.20]  Let me sing now
+[232.20 --> 234.20]  Let me sing now
+[234.20 --> 238.20]  Let me sing now
+[238.20 --> 240.20]  Let me sing now
+[240.20 --> 244.20]  Let me sing now
+[244.20 --> 248.20]  Let me sing now
+[248.20 --> 250.20]  Let me sing now
+[250.20 --> 254.20]  Let me sing now
+[254.20 --> 258.20]  Let me sing now
+[258.20 --> 260.20]  Let me sing now
+[260.20 --> 262.20]  Let me sing now
+[262.20 --> 270.20]  Let me sing now
+[270.20 --> 272.20]  Let me sing now
+[272.20 --> 274.20]  Let me sing now
+[274.20 --> 276.20]  Let me sing now
+[276.20 --> 284.20]  Let me sing now
+[284.20 --> 286.20]  Let me sing now
+[286.20 --> 288.20]  Let me sing now
+[288.20 --> 290.20]  Let me sing now
+[290.20 --> 292.20]  Let me sing now
+[292.20 --> 294.20]  Let me sing now
+[294.20 --> 296.20]  Let me sing now
+[296.20 --> 320.20]  This isworking past
+[320.20 --> 337.08]  Please stand and sing with us.
+[350.20 --> 369.58]  Arise, my soul, arise, shake off your guilty fears.
+[369.58 --> 377.20]  The bleeding sacrifice on my behalf appears.
+[377.20 --> 381.42]  Before the throne my surety stands.
+[381.74 --> 385.22]  Before the throne my surety stands.
+[385.56 --> 389.82]  My name is written on His hands.
+[393.02 --> 400.16]  Arise, arise, arise, arise, arise, my soul, arise.
+[400.16 --> 407.62]  Arise, arise, arise, arise, my soul, arise.
+[407.88 --> 412.16]  Shake off your guilty fears and rise.
+[415.42 --> 421.16]  He never lives above for me to intercede.
+[421.16 --> 428.16]  His all-redeeming love, His precious blood to be.
+[430.16 --> 433.96]  His blood atoned for every ring.
+[433.96 --> 437.84]  His blood atoned for every ring.
+[437.84 --> 442.84]  And sprinkles now the throne of grace.
+[445.84 --> 452.84]  Arise, arise, arise, arise, arise, arise, my soul, arise.
+[452.84 --> 459.84]  Arise, arise, arise, arise, arise, arise, my soul, arise.
+[459.84 --> 468.84]  Arise, arise, arise, arise, arise, arise, arise, arise, arise, arise.
+[468.84 --> 473.84]  By pleading wounds He bears, received on Calvary.
+[473.84 --> 475.84]  They pour effectual prayers.
+[475.84 --> 478.84]  They pour effectual prayers.
+[478.84 --> 480.84]  They strongly plead for me.
+[480.84 --> 486.84]  Forgive Him, oh, forgive, they cry.
+[486.84 --> 490.84]  Forgive Him, oh, forgive, they cry.
+[490.84 --> 494.84]  Don't let that ransom sinner die.
+[494.84 --> 496.84]  He never license.
+[496.84 --> 497.84]  He never сказала.
+[497.84 --> 498.84]  He nevereth emotional願い, the resurrection of his death.
+[499.84 --> 500.84]  Alright, we pray.
+[505.84 --> 511.84]  He never leaves and low letting them know the ancients are birthday.
+[511.84 --> 513.84]  As .
+[513.84 --> 514.84]  He was thirsty to acres.
+[514.84 --> 515.84]  Wait so much!
+[515.84 --> 517.84]  Most of that have a harbor wage.
+[517.84 --> 520.84]  That may be lecture where the reconciliation of His husband was�를 nee and come up.
+[521.84 --> 522.84] 'titin.
+[522.84 --> 536.84]  God is reconciled, his pardoning voice I hear. He owns me for his child, I can no longer feel.
+[536.84 --> 549.84]  With confidence I now draw nigh, with confidence I now draw nigh, and Father have a Father cry.
+[549.84 --> 568.84]  Arise, arise, arise, my soul, arise.
+[568.84 --> 573.84]  Shake off your guilty fears and rise.
+[579.84 --> 585.84]  Welcome everyone here and joining us online in live stream.
+[585.84 --> 590.84]  Tonight is the first installment of what we are calling Praise and Prayer.
+[590.84 --> 594.84]  The goal of Praise and Prayer is to have evenings like this once in a while,
+[594.84 --> 599.84]  where we can come to church and honour our Lord in song and in prayer.
+[599.84 --> 603.84]  We don't have a stand-up, sit-down routine like a regular Sunday service would,
+[603.84 --> 610.84]  so stand when you want, sit if you need to, and join us and sing.
+[610.84 --> 616.84]  O praise the name of the Lord our God.
+[616.84 --> 620.84]  The echo of our days, he is our song.
+[620.84 --> 626.84]  As broken hearts declare his praise, we will worship him in righteousness.
+[626.84 --> 631.84]  We raise a hallelujah with everything inside of us.
+[631.84 --> 637.84]  We cry holy to Christ, the great and sure of fulfillment.
+[637.84 --> 643.84]  Our hope is in him alone, our strength in his mighty name.
+[643.84 --> 646.84]  Let every nation shout of his fame.
+[646.84 --> 650.84]  Our purpose is to worship him alone.
+[650.84 --> 655.84]  Arise, come and worship the Holy God.
+[655.84 --> 664.84]  I raise a hallelujah in the presence of my enemies.
+[664.84 --> 680.84]  I raise a hallelujah in the presence of my enemies.
+[680.84 --> 693.76]  I raise a hallelujah louder than the unbelief.
+[693.76 --> 699.94]  I raise a hallelujah.
+[702.44 --> 706.56]  My weapon is a melody.
+[706.56 --> 713.96]  I raise a hallelujah.
+[717.34 --> 721.92]  Heaven comes to fight for me.
+[724.62 --> 730.86]  I'm gonna sing in the middle of the storm.
+[730.86 --> 738.26]  Louder and louder, you're gonna hear my praises roar.
+[738.26 --> 744.60]  Up from the ashes, hope will arise.
+[745.26 --> 751.26]  Death is defeated, the King is alive.
+[751.26 --> 764.58]  I raise a hallelujah.
+[764.58 --> 771.08]  With everything inside of me.
+[771.08 --> 777.62]  I raise a hallelujah.
+[780.48 --> 784.72]  I will watch the darkness clean.
+[786.80 --> 790.78]  I raise a hallelujah.
+[790.78 --> 797.18]  In the middle of the mystery.
+[800.18 --> 803.90]  I raise a hallelujah.
+[807.50 --> 811.24]  Here you've lost your hold on me.
+[811.24 --> 819.98]  I'm gonna sing in the middle of the storm.
+[820.64 --> 826.98]  Louder and louder, you're gonna hear my praises roar.
+[827.66 --> 833.44]  Up from the ashes, hope will arise.
+[833.44 --> 840.84]  Death is defeated, the King is alive.
+[840.84 --> 854.24]  Outro Music
+[854.24 --> 854.72]  Sing a little louder
+[854.72 --> 859.06]  Sing a little louder
+[859.06 --> 862.12]  Sing a little louder
+[862.12 --> 867.12]  Sing a little louder, sing a little louder
+[867.12 --> 874.12]  Sing a little louder, sing a little louder
+[874.12 --> 877.12]  In the presence of my enemies
+[877.12 --> 884.12]  Sing a little louder, louder than the unbelief
+[884.12 --> 890.12]  Sing a little louder, my weapon is a melody
+[890.12 --> 897.12]  Sing a little louder, heaven comes to fight for me
+[897.12 --> 903.12]  Sing a little louder, in the presence of my enemies
+[903.12 --> 910.12]  Sing a little louder, louder than the unbelief
+[910.12 --> 916.12]  Sing a little louder, my weapon is a melody
+[916.12 --> 919.12]  Sing a little louder, sing a little louder
+[919.12 --> 933.12]  Sing a little louder, I'm gonna sing in the middle of the storm
+[933.12 --> 940.12]  Louder and louder, you're gonna hear my praises roar
+[940.12 --> 946.12]  Up from the ashes, hope will arise
+[946.12 --> 953.12]  Death is defeated, the king is alive
+[953.12 --> 959.12]  I'm gonna sing in the middle of the storm
+[959.12 --> 960.12]  I'm gonna sing in the middle of the storm
+[960.12 --> 966.12]  Louder and louder, you're gonna hear my praises roar
+[966.12 --> 972.12]  Up from the ashes, hope will arise
+[972.12 --> 981.12]  Death is defeated, the king is alive
+[981.12 --> 982.62]  I raise the hallelujah
+[987.12 --> 988.12]  I raise the hallelujah
+[991.12 --> 994.12]  I raise the hallelujah
+[994.12 --> 1001.12]  I raise the hallelujah
+[1001.12 --> 1006.42]  A raise of hallelujah
+[1031.12 --> 1047.04]  Who else could cleanse all the hosts of heaven?
+[1047.98 --> 1053.90]  Who else could make every king bow down?
+[1055.16 --> 1059.86]  Who else could whisper and darkness tremble?
+[1061.12 --> 1065.46]  Only a holy God
+[1065.46 --> 1073.48]  What other beauty demands such praises?
+[1075.32 --> 1079.96]  What other splendor outshines the sun?
+[1079.96 --> 1086.56]  What other majesty rules with justice?
+[1086.56 --> 1090.90]  What other beauty demands such praises?
+[1090.90 --> 1095.24]  What other beauty demands such praises?
+[1095.24 --> 1099.58]  Come and behold Him
+[1099.58 --> 1103.92]  The one and the only
+[1103.92 --> 1109.26]  Cry out, sing holy
+[1109.26 --> 1113.60]  Forever a holy God
+[1113.60 --> 1117.94]  Come and worship the holy God
+[1117.94 --> 1122.28]  What other glory consumes like fire?
+[1122.28 --> 1135.42]  What other glory consumes like fire?
+[1135.42 --> 1141.76]  What other power can raise the dead?
+[1141.76 --> 1148.10]  What other name remains undefeated?
+[1148.10 --> 1152.44]  Only a holy God
+[1152.44 --> 1153.78]  Come and behold Him
+[1153.78 --> 1161.92]  Come and behold Him
+[1161.92 --> 1166.78]  The one and the only
+[1166.78 --> 1171.78]  Cry out, sing holy
+[1171.78 --> 1176.44]  Forever a holy God
+[1176.44 --> 1180.78]  Come and worship the holy God
+[1180.78 --> 1183.44]  Come and behold Him
+[1183.44 --> 1187.44]  Come and behold Him
+[1187.44 --> 1192.44]  The one and the only
+[1192.44 --> 1196.78]  Cry out, sing holy
+[1196.78 --> 1197.78]  Cry out, sing holy
+[1197.78 --> 1201.78]  Forever a holy God
+[1201.78 --> 1207.78]  Come and worship the holy God
+[1207.78 --> 1219.12]  Who else could rescue me
+[1219.12 --> 1221.12]  Who else could rescue me
+[1221.12 --> 1224.12]  From my failing?
+[1224.12 --> 1230.12]  Who else would offer His only Son?
+[1230.12 --> 1236.36]  Who else invites me to call Him Father?
+[1237.78 --> 1242.42]  Only a holy God
+[1242.42 --> 1255.74]  Only a holy God
+[1255.74 --> 1257.22]  Only my holy God
+[1257.22 --> 1258.48]  Only my holy God
+[1258.48 --> 1260.06]  Come and behold Him
+[1260.06 --> 1260.16]  The one and the only
+[1260.16 --> 1264.04]  Cry out, sing holy
+[1264.04 --> 1269.50]  Holy, forever a holy God.
+[1269.82 --> 1274.38]  Come and worship the Holy God.
+[1275.86 --> 1285.04]  Come and behold Him, the one and the only.
+[1285.04 --> 1295.08]  Cry out, sing holy, forever a holy God.
+[1295.44 --> 1300.30]  Come and worship the Holy God.
+[1315.04 --> 1327.40]  Praise the Lord.
+[1328.10 --> 1329.72]  Praise God in His sanctuary.
+[1330.34 --> 1331.86]  Praise Him in His mighty heaven.
+[1333.14 --> 1335.18]  Praise Him for His acts of power.
+[1335.90 --> 1337.62]  Praise Him for His surpassing greatness.
+[1338.58 --> 1340.52]  Praise Him for the sounding of the trumpet.
+[1341.24 --> 1342.90]  Praise Him with the harp and lyre.
+[1343.64 --> 1345.60]  Praise Him with tambourine and dancing.
+[1346.28 --> 1348.20]  Praise Him with the strings and flute.
+[1349.02 --> 1351.04]  Praise Him with the clash of cymbals.
+[1351.60 --> 1353.56]  Praise Him with resounding cymbals.
+[1354.16 --> 1356.52]  Let everything that is breath praise the Lord.
+[1357.12 --> 1357.76]  Praise the Lord.
+[1363.20 --> 1366.98]  Lord, Your people are gathered here to worship.
+[1368.14 --> 1372.42]  We come before You to honor and praise Your holy name.
+[1372.90 --> 1375.20]  There is no one else that is worthy.
+[1375.94 --> 1378.54]  There is no one else that created us.
+[1379.34 --> 1382.82]  There is no one else that can give us the love that You do.
+[1383.68 --> 1391.52]  There is no one, not another being, that guides, leads, and protects us through our days here on this earth.
+[1392.38 --> 1399.74]  Lord, because of these things and more, we lift our hearts and voices to You in reverence and praise.
+[1399.74 --> 1404.74]  Lord, we know the vision of Jesus walking among the lampstands.
+[1404.74 --> 1406.68]  Walk among us.
+[1407.52 --> 1409.80]  Fill this place with Your presence.
+[1409.80 --> 1416.80]  May we know Your heart.
+[1416.80 --> 1421.80]  May we know Your heart.
+[1421.80 --> 1434.80]  As we see Your face, may we know Your heart.
+[1434.80 --> 1439.80]  Feel Your presence.
+[1439.80 --> 1440.80]  Feel Your presence.
+[1440.80 --> 1442.80]  Acceptance.
+[1443.80 --> 1449.80]  As we seek Your face.
+[1449.80 --> 1455.80]  Move among us now.
+[1455.80 --> 1456.80]  Come reveal Your heart.
+[1456.80 --> 1457.80]  Come reveal Your heart.
+[1457.80 --> 1462.80]  Come reveal Your heart.
+[1462.80 --> 1466.80]  Come reveal Your heart.
+[1466.80 --> 1470.80]  Show Your presence.
+[1470.80 --> 1472.80]  Acceptance.
+[1472.80 --> 1473.80]  Acceptance.
+[1473.80 --> 1474.80]  Move among us now.
+[1474.80 --> 1475.80]  At Your feet we fall.
+[1475.80 --> 1479.80]  At Your feet we fall.
+[1479.80 --> 1480.80]  Sovereign Lord.
+[1480.80 --> 1482.80]  Weep high holy, holy, at Your feet we fall.
+[1482.80 --> 1483.80]  At Your feet we fall.
+[1483.80 --> 1484.80]  At Your feet we fall.
+[1484.80 --> 1485.80]  At Your feet we fall.
+[1485.80 --> 1489.80]  At Your feet we fall.
+[1489.80 --> 1495.80]  Sovereign Lord.
+[1495.80 --> 1510.80]  Weep high holy, holy, at Your feet we fall.
+[1510.80 --> 1519.80]  God, we express to You our gratitude and thankfulness for the opportunity to approach You.
+[1519.80 --> 1525.80]  We can have a personal relationship with our Creator, our Savior.
+[1525.80 --> 1534.80]  We're surrounded by business, full schedules we can barely keep track of, jobs, kids, loss, pain and suffering.
+[1534.80 --> 1540.80]  Sometimes we feel like we want the world to stop and let us catch a breath, but that doesn't happen.
+[1540.80 --> 1545.80]  Our comfort in our worship and in our prayers is that we rest in You.
+[1545.80 --> 1560.80]  Thank You
+[1560.80 --> 1562.80]  Jesus, draw me Lord
+[1562.80 --> 1577.86]  Jesus, draw me close
+[1577.86 --> 1583.46]  Closer, Lord, to you
+[1583.46 --> 1591.32]  Let the world around me
+[1591.32 --> 1597.50]  Fade away
+[1597.50 --> 1607.86]  Jesus, draw me close
+[1607.86 --> 1613.62]  Closer, Lord, to you
+[1613.62 --> 1623.80]  For I desire to worship and obey
+[1623.80 --> 1631.98]  For I desire to worship and obey
+[1631.98 --> 1661.96]  Thank you.
+[1661.98 --> 1668.12]  Come, behold the wondrous mystery
+[1668.12 --> 1673.30]  In the dawning of the King
+[1673.30 --> 1679.22]  He the theme of heaven's praises
+[1679.22 --> 1683.36]  Rogued in frail humanity
+[1683.36 --> 1690.00]  In our longing, in our darkness
+[1690.00 --> 1695.56]  Now the light of life has come
+[1695.56 --> 1701.24]  Looked to Christ who condescended
+[1701.24 --> 1707.00]  Took on flesh to ransom us
+[1707.00 --> 1721.36]  Come, behold the wondrous mystery
+[1721.36 --> 1726.74]  He the perfect Son of man
+[1726.74 --> 1732.72]  In His living, in His suffering
+[1732.72 --> 1738.02]  Never trace nor stain of sin
+[1738.02 --> 1744.12]  See the true and better Adam
+[1744.12 --> 1748.74]  Come to save the hell-bound man
+[1748.74 --> 1755.12]  Christ the great and sure fulfillment
+[1755.12 --> 1760.74]  Of the law, in Him we stand
+[1760.74 --> 1775.38]  Come, behold the wondrous mystery
+[1775.38 --> 1780.30]  Christ the Lord upon the tree
+[1780.30 --> 1786.30]  In the stead of ruined sinners
+[1786.90 --> 1791.30]  Hangs the Lamb in victory
+[1791.30 --> 1797.82]  See the price of our redemption
+[1797.82 --> 1803.30]  See the Father's plan on toll
+[1803.30 --> 1809.56]  Bringing many sons to glory
+[1809.56 --> 1815.30]  Grace unmeasured, love untold
+[1815.30 --> 1829.30]  Come, behold the wondrous mystery
+[1829.30 --> 1829.90]  Come, behold the wondrous mystery
+[1829.90 --> 1835.54]  Slain by death, the God of life
+[1835.54 --> 1841.76]  But no grave could e'er restrain Him
+[1841.76 --> 1847.42]  Praise the Lord, He is alive
+[1847.42 --> 1853.42]  What a foretaste of deliverance
+[1853.42 --> 1858.86]  How unwavering our hope
+[1858.86 --> 1864.28]  Christ in power resurrected
+[1864.28 --> 1894.26]  As we will be
+[1894.26 --> 1896.26]  When He comes
+[1896.26 --> 1897.38]  When He comes
+[1897.38 --> 1900.26]  When He comes
+[1900.26 --> 1902.26]  When He comes
+[1902.26 --> 1906.26]  When He comes
+[1906.26 --> 1908.26]  When He comes
+[1908.26 --> 1910.26]  When He comes
+[1910.26 --> 1912.26]  When He comes
+[1912.26 --> 1915.26]  I cast my mind
+[1915.26 --> 1921.26]  To Calvary
+[1921.26 --> 1928.26]  Where Jesus bled and died for me
+[1928.26 --> 1930.26]  I cast my mind
+[1930.26 --> 1932.26]  To Calvary
+[1932.26 --> 1936.26]  Where Jesus bled and died for me
+[1936.26 --> 1943.26]  Jesus bled and died for me
+[1943.26 --> 1951.26]  I see His wounds, His hands, His feet
+[1951.26 --> 1953.26]  My Savior, my Savior, my Savior
+[1953.26 --> 1958.26]  My Savior, our that cursed tree
+[1958.26 --> 1966.26]  His body bowed and drenched in tears
+[1966.26 --> 1968.26]  They laid Him down in Joseph's tomb
+[1968.26 --> 1969.26]  They laid Him down in Joseph's tomb
+[1969.26 --> 1973.26]  They laid Him down in Joseph's tomb
+[1973.26 --> 1980.26]  The entrance sealed by heavy stone
+[1980.26 --> 1987.26]  The entrance sealed by heavy stone
+[1987.26 --> 1992.26]  Messiah still and all alone
+[1992.26 --> 1993.26]  And all alone
+[1993.26 --> 1995.26]  And all alone
+[1995.26 --> 2008.26]  O praise the name of the Lord our God
+[2008.26 --> 2011.26]  O praise His name
+[2011.26 --> 2012.26]  O praise His name
+[2012.26 --> 2015.26]  Forevermore
+[2015.26 --> 2019.26]  For endless days
+[2019.26 --> 2024.26]  We will sing Your praise
+[2024.26 --> 2026.26]  O Lord
+[2026.26 --> 2027.26]  O Lord
+[2027.26 --> 2028.26]  O Lord
+[2028.26 --> 2030.26]  Our God
+[2030.26 --> 2038.26]  When on the third
+[2038.26 --> 2042.26]  At break of dawn
+[2042.26 --> 2046.26]  The Son of Heaven
+[2046.26 --> 2047.26]  Heaven
+[2047.26 --> 2049.26]  And rose again
+[2049.26 --> 2051.26]  O O O mod
+[2051.26 --> 2053.26]  O O O O Lamb
+[2053.26 --> 2054.26]  O O O Lord
+[2054.26 --> 2057.96]  Where is your sting?
+[2058.38 --> 2065.30]  The angels roar for Christ the King.
+[2068.64 --> 2077.36]  Oh, praise the name of the Lord our God.
+[2077.36 --> 2084.36]  Oh, praise His name forevermore.
+[2085.14 --> 2092.42]  For endless days we will sing Your praise.
+[2092.84 --> 2098.36]  Oh, Lord, oh, Lord our God.
+[2098.36 --> 2110.54]  We shall return in robes of white.
+[2110.76 --> 2118.14]  The blazing sun shall pierce the night.
+[2118.14 --> 2126.62]  And I will rise among the saints.
+[2127.28 --> 2134.58]  My gates transpiced on Jesus' face.
+[2134.58 --> 2164.56]  The blazing sun shall pierce the night.
+[2164.58 --> 2176.58]  Oh, praise the name of the Lord our God.
+[2177.64 --> 2184.78]  Oh, praise His name forevermore.
+[2184.78 --> 2192.22]  For endless days we will sing Your praise.
+[2192.60 --> 2197.78]  Oh, Lord, oh, Lord our God.
+[2197.78 --> 2207.26]  Oh, praise the name of the Lord our God.
+[2207.26 --> 2214.26]  Oh, praise His name forevermore.
+[2215.08 --> 2222.44]  For endless days we will sing Your praise.
+[2222.44 --> 2228.44]  O Lord, oh, Lord our God.
+[2230.26 --> 2236.44]  Oh, Lord, oh, Lord our God.
+[2252.44 --> 2254.44]  We come before You.
+[2254.44 --> 2258.08]  We come before You to worship You.
+[2260.26 --> 2262.02]  We come to praise You.
+[2262.26 --> 2263.60]  Praise Your name.
+[2263.60 --> 2267.60]  Oh, praise the name of the Lord our God.
+[2267.60 --> 2270.60]  Praise His name forevermore.
+[2270.60 --> 2277.28]  It is Your name that is holy.
+[2277.28 --> 2279.28]  You make us holy, God.
+[2279.28 --> 2279.78]  You make us holy, God.
+[2282.58 --> 2285.04]  And amidst the chaos of our world,
+[2285.38 --> 2288.46]  it's hard sometimes to praise You.
+[2291.04 --> 2294.04]  But You call us to Yourself.
+[2295.56 --> 2298.24]  You call us to praise You in the storm.
+[2298.42 --> 2300.90]  Your voice is over the mighty waters.
+[2300.90 --> 2303.14]  You are good.
+[2306.56 --> 2309.02]  You are good in amidst the storm.
+[2309.20 --> 2310.78]  You are good in the trials.
+[2311.00 --> 2312.30]  You are good in the hurt.
+[2312.46 --> 2313.84]  You are good in the hard.
+[2316.72 --> 2318.06]  And we praise You.
+[2318.76 --> 2322.30]  We praise You when we're in brokenness.
+[2322.44 --> 2325.64]  We praise You when we're in loss, God.
+[2330.90 --> 2346.76]  We offer You our praise.
+[2349.58 --> 2352.82]  We know that You are here.
+[2355.38 --> 2358.12]  We know that You are in our midst.
+[2358.30 --> 2360.56]  We know that Your Spirit is moving in power.
+[2360.90 --> 2363.08]  Even right now.
+[2363.28 --> 2367.86]  Speaking words of love and affection to our hearts.
+[2369.30 --> 2373.92]  And so, God, as we bask in the glory of Your presence,
+[2374.08 --> 2377.82]  we long for hearts to receive and ears to hear.
+[2377.94 --> 2381.82]  We long for eyes that can see You, Lord Jesus.
+[2386.44 --> 2389.88]  God, we gather together tonight.
+[2390.90 --> 2391.90]  We're here tonight.
+[2391.90 --> 2392.24]  We're here tonight.
+[2392.24 --> 2396.30]  Not just because You have called us here to worship You.
+[2397.18 --> 2404.24]  Not just because all creation proclaims Your name and the glories of Your work in the world.
+[2404.58 --> 2406.40]  You have called us here tonight.
+[2406.74 --> 2409.14]  Not just because it is right and it is good,
+[2409.46 --> 2412.64]  but because here, together, we glimpse heaven.
+[2413.04 --> 2417.86]  Here, together, we glimpse the very reason You have created this world.
+[2417.86 --> 2424.06]  Here, together, we participate in the purpose for which You have made each and every one of us.
+[2424.26 --> 2428.26]  To glorify You and enjoy You forever.
+[2428.42 --> 2431.28]  And so, give us joy in praising You.
+[2431.46 --> 2434.18]  Give us joy in our rejoicing.
+[2434.58 --> 2439.82]  Give us joy as we come into Your holy presence.
+[2439.82 --> 2442.48]  Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.
+[2442.82 --> 2444.46]  Here we are.
+[2449.28 --> 2453.90]  We are here because You are here.
+[2453.90 --> 2463.48]  We are here because within each and every one of us is a longing for eternity.
+[2464.48 --> 2469.04]  We are here so that we might rest in You.
+[2469.04 --> 2473.94]  And so, we pray.
+[2475.14 --> 2480.94]  Tonight, as we sing songs, as we lift holy hands in worship of You.
+[2481.06 --> 2484.76]  Tonight, as we are anointed in worship,
+[2485.12 --> 2490.98]  that we might participate with the very angels of heaven in singing Your praises.
+[2490.98 --> 2492.32]  That we might sing,
+[2492.56 --> 2498.70]  Holy, holy, holy is the Lord God Almighty who was and is and is to come.
+[2500.60 --> 2503.56]  That here, we might see You, Lord Jesus.
+[2504.84 --> 2510.52]  And we might know that You are worthy to take the scroll and to open its seals
+[2510.52 --> 2511.96]  because You were slain.
+[2512.04 --> 2517.50]  And with Your blood, You purchased for God persons from every tribe and language and people and nation.
+[2517.50 --> 2523.62]  And You have made us to be a kingdom and priests to serve You, our God.
+[2523.70 --> 2529.00]  And that one day, Lord Jesus Christ, we will reign with You forever.
+[2532.56 --> 2537.98]  Until that day, while we wait here.
+[2538.64 --> 2540.38]  We don't wait idly.
+[2541.14 --> 2544.46]  We wait fulfilling Your call to our lives.
+[2544.46 --> 2551.12]  We wait busy at the work that You call us to in mission and proclaiming the gospel,
+[2551.36 --> 2554.46]  in revealing Your kingdom come and Your kingdom coming,
+[2554.60 --> 2557.10]  in works of justice and of mercy.
+[2560.24 --> 2563.30]  And as we wait, we pray,
+[2564.00 --> 2566.50]  come quickly, Lord Jesus.
+[2566.50 --> 2570.28]  As we wait, we pray,
+[2570.48 --> 2572.70]  even so, come.
+[2574.22 --> 2576.40]  Come, Lord Jesus.
+[2578.62 --> 2579.94]  Renew us.
+[2580.80 --> 2581.62]  Fill us.
+[2581.94 --> 2582.88]  Restore us.
+[2583.06 --> 2584.24]  Come, Lord Jesus,
+[2584.24 --> 2590.46]  that we might see the glory of God in You.
+[2591.50 --> 2592.24]  Come.
+[2593.14 --> 2595.60]  In Jesus' name we pray.
+[2596.50 --> 2621.82]  All of creation,
+[2622.40 --> 2624.50]  all of the earth,
+[2624.50 --> 2629.62]  Make straight a highway, a path for the Lord.
+[2630.96 --> 2635.90]  Jesus is coming soon.
+[2639.24 --> 2644.48]  Call back the sinner, wake up the saints.
+[2644.48 --> 2649.68]  Let every nation shout up your name.
+[2649.68 --> 2656.12]  Jesus is coming soon.
+[2659.42 --> 2665.72]  Like a bride waiting for a groom,
+[2665.72 --> 2670.58]  we'll be a church ready for you.
+[2670.74 --> 2675.72]  Every heart longing for our King,
+[2675.72 --> 2678.86]  we sing, we sing,
+[2679.32 --> 2686.34]  even so come, Lord Jesus come.
+[2688.46 --> 2696.86]  Even so come, Lord Jesus come.
+[2696.86 --> 2705.18]  There will be justice, all will be new.
+[2705.88 --> 2710.38]  Your name forever, faithful and true.
+[2712.24 --> 2716.86]  Jesus is coming soon.
+[2716.86 --> 2726.54]  Like a bride waiting for a groom,
+[2726.54 --> 2731.24]  we'll be a church ready for you.
+[2731.40 --> 2736.64]  Every heart longing for our King,
+[2736.64 --> 2746.64]  we sing, even so come, Lord Jesus come.
+[2748.38 --> 2756.64]  Even so come, Lord Jesus come.
+[2756.64 --> 2766.80]  So we wait, we wait for you.
+[2768.80 --> 2777.58]  God, we wait, you're coming soon.
+[2777.58 --> 2798.40]  God, we wait, you're coming soon.
+[2798.40 --> 2800.24]  God, we wait, you're coming soon.
+[2800.24 --> 2802.18]  Oh, God, we wait, you're coming soon.
+[2802.18 --> 2807.56]  Like a bride waiting for a groom,
+[2807.56 --> 2812.26]  we'll be a church ready for you.
+[2812.26 --> 2817.80]  Every heart longing for our King,
+[2818.10 --> 2820.14]  we sing.
+[2820.14 --> 2827.80]  Like a bride waiting for her groom
+[2827.80 --> 2832.20]  We'll be a church ready for you
+[2832.20 --> 2837.68]  Every heart longing for our King
+[2837.68 --> 2843.22]  We sing even so come
+[2843.22 --> 2847.72]  Lord Jesus come
+[2847.72 --> 2853.40]  Even so come
+[2853.40 --> 2858.30]  Lord Jesus come
+[2877.72 --> 2887.14]  1 Chronicles 16 23-31
+[2887.14 --> 2896.48]  Sing to the Lord all the earth, proclaim his salvation day after day, declare his glory among the nations, his marvelous deeds among all people.
+[2897.72 --> 2904.60]  For great is the Lord and most worthy of praise. He is to be feared above all gods, for all the gods of the nations are idols.
+[2904.60 --> 2911.34]  But the Lord made the heavens. Splendor and majesty are before him. Strength and joy are in his dwelling place.
+[2912.14 --> 2916.78]  Ascribe to the Lord all you families of nations. Ascribe to the Lord glory and strength.
+[2917.82 --> 2922.54]  Ascribe to the Lord the glory due his name. Bring an offering and come before him.
+[2922.54 --> 2925.14]  Worship the Lord in the splendor of his holiness.
+[2925.98 --> 2930.56]  Tremble before him all the earth. The world is firmly established. It cannot be moved.
+[2931.10 --> 2933.54]  Let the heavens rejoice. Let the earth be glad.
+[2934.04 --> 2936.60]  Let them say among the nations, the Lord reigns.
+[2936.60 --> 2966.58]  Let them glorify.
+[2966.58 --> 2984.88]  Let them glorify the King of kings. We will glorify the Lamb. We will glorify the Lamb. We will glorify the Lord of lords, who is the great I Am.
+[2984.88 --> 3006.56]  Lord Jehovah reigns in majesty. We will bow before his throne. We will worship him in righteousness. We will worship him alone.
+[3006.56 --> 3028.50]  He is Lord of heaven, Lord of earth. He is Lord of heaven, Lord of earth. He is Lord of all who live. He is Lord above the universe. All praise to him we give.
+[3028.50 --> 3058.48]  All praise to him we give.
+[3058.50 --> 3088.48]  All praise to him we give.
+[3088.50 --> 3093.48]  and people and nation. You have made them to be a kingdom and priests to serve our God,
+[3093.94 --> 3098.48]  and they will reign on the earth. And then I looked and heard a voice of many angels,
+[3098.94 --> 3103.88]  numbering thousands upon thousands, and ten thousand times ten thousand. They encircled
+[3103.88 --> 3108.14]  the throne and the living creatures and the elders. In a loud voice they sang, Worthy is
+[3108.14 --> 3114.02]  the Lamb who is slain, receive power and wealth and wisdom and strength, and honor and glory and
+[3114.02 --> 3119.54]  praise. Then I heard every creature in heaven and on earth and under the earth and on the sea and all
+[3119.54 --> 3125.06]  that is in them singing, To him who sits on the throne and to the Lamb be praise and honor and
+[3125.06 --> 3131.64]  glory and power forever and ever. The four living creatures said amen, and the elders fell down in worship.
+[3144.02 --> 3166.90]  He's coming on the clouds, kings and kingdoms will bow down.
+[3166.90 --> 3183.98]  And every chain will break, as broken hearts declare his praise. Who can stop the Lord Almighty?
+[3185.82 --> 3196.46]  Our God is the Lion, the Lion of Judah. He's roaring with power and fighting
+[3196.46 --> 3223.06]  our battles. And every knee will bow before him. Our God is the Lamb, the Lamb that was slain. For the sins of the world, his blood breaks the chains. And every knee will bow before the Lion and the Lamb.
+[3223.06 --> 3228.06]  Every knee will bow before him.
+[3228.06 --> 3230.06]  Every knee will bow before him.
+[3230.06 --> 3236.06]  So open up the gates, take way before the King of kings.
+[3236.06 --> 3243.06]  So open up the gates, take way before the King of kings.
+[3243.06 --> 3248.06]  Take way before the King of kings.
+[3249.06 --> 3251.06]  The God of kings.
+[3253.06 --> 3265.06]  The God who comes to save is here to set the captives free. Who can stop the Lord Almighty?
+[3265.06 --> 3283.52]  Our God is the Lion, the Lion of Judah, He's roaring with power and fighting our battles, and every knee will bow before Him.
+[3283.52 --> 3308.12]  Our God is the Lamb, the Lamb that was slain, for the sins of the world, His blood breaks the chains, and every knee will bow before the Lion and the Lamb, for every knee will bow before Him.
+[3308.12 --> 3332.18]  Who can stop the Lord Almighty? Who can stop the Lord Almighty? Who can stop the Lord Almighty? Who can stop the Lord?
+[3332.18 --> 3340.62]  Our God is the Lion, the Lion of Judah
+[3340.62 --> 3346.88]  He's roaring with power and fighting our battle
+[3346.88 --> 3352.24]  And every knee will bow before Him
+[3352.24 --> 3358.86]  Our God is the Lamb, the Lamb that was slain
+[3358.86 --> 3365.06]  For the sins of the world, His blood breaks the chains
+[3365.06 --> 3371.18]  And every knee will bow before the Lion and the Lamb
+[3371.18 --> 3376.82]  Every knee will bow before Him
+[3388.86 --> 3418.84]  For the sins of the Lord
+[3418.86 --> 3437.00]  You are who you say you are
+[3437.00 --> 3443.34]  You'll do what you say you'll do
+[3443.34 --> 3451.22]  You'll be who you've always been to us
+[3451.22 --> 3453.56]  Jesus
+[3453.56 --> 3464.36]  Our hope is in You alone
+[3464.36 --> 3471.22]  Our strength in Your mighty name
+[3471.22 --> 3479.02]  Our peace in the darkest day remains
+[3479.02 --> 3481.10]  Jesus
+[3481.10 --> 3488.98]  This we know
+[3488.98 --> 3493.22]  We will see the enemy run
+[3493.22 --> 3495.22]  This we know
+[3495.22 --> 3495.98]  This we know
+[3495.98 --> 3500.44]  We will see the victory come
+[3500.44 --> 3502.78]  We hold on
+[3502.78 --> 3507.22]  To every promise You ever made
+[3507.22 --> 3511.22]  Jesus, You are unfailing
+[3511.22 --> 3521.38]  Our God through the wilderness
+[3521.38 --> 3528.56]  Our joy in the heaviness
+[3528.56 --> 3536.36]  Our way when it seems there is no way
+[3536.36 --> 3538.36]  Jesus, You are unfailing
+[3538.36 --> 3538.70]  Jesus
+[3538.70 --> 3543.36]  This we know
+[3543.36 --> 3545.36]  This we know
+[3545.36 --> 3546.36]  This we know
+[3546.36 --> 3550.58]  We will see the enemy run
+[3550.58 --> 3552.36]  This we know
+[3552.36 --> 3557.36]  We will see the victory come
+[3557.36 --> 3558.36]  We hold on
+[3558.36 --> 3559.36]  We hold on
+[3559.36 --> 3560.36]  We hold on
+[3560.36 --> 3563.36]  To every promise You ever made
+[3563.36 --> 3568.36]  Jesus, You are unfailing
+[3568.36 --> 3573.36]  We trust You
+[3573.36 --> 3575.36]  We trust You
+[3575.36 --> 3583.36]  Your ways are higher than our own
+[3583.36 --> 3586.36]  We trust You
+[3586.36 --> 3589.36]  We trust You
+[3589.36 --> 3596.36]  Your ways are higher than our own
+[3596.36 --> 3599.36]  We trust You
+[3599.36 --> 3604.36]  We trust You
+[3604.38 --> 3605.36]  We trust You
+[3605.36 --> 3606.36]  We trust You
+[3606.36 --> 3611.36]  Our ways are higher than our own
+[3611.36 --> 3616.36]  We trust You
+[3616.36 --> 3617.36]  We trust You
+[3617.36 --> 3618.36]  This we know
+[3618.36 --> 3621.36]  We will see the victory come
+[3621.36 --> 3622.04]  We trust You
+[3622.04 --> 3625.36]  We trust You
+[3625.36 --> 3626.34]  We trust You
+[3626.34 --> 3634.92]  To every promise you ever made, Jesus, you are unfailing.
+[3637.14 --> 3644.08]  This we know, we will see the enemy run.
+[3644.08 --> 3651.08]  This we know, we will see the victory come.
+[3651.08 --> 3662.70]  We hold on to every promise you ever made, Jesus, you are unfailing.
+[3681.08 --> 3709.78]  Let the King of my heart be the mountain where I run.
+[3709.78 --> 3716.24]  The fountain I drink from, oh, he is my song.
+[3716.68 --> 3722.78]  Let the King of my heart be the shadow where I hide.
+[3723.80 --> 3728.78]  The ransom for my life, oh, he is my song.
+[3728.78 --> 3734.78]  You are good, good, oh.
+[3735.68 --> 3741.28]  You are good, good, oh.
+[3741.28 --> 3748.28]  You are good, good, oh.
+[3748.28 --> 3755.28]  You are good, good, oh.
+[3755.28 --> 3763.38]  Let the King of my heart be the wind inside my sails.
+[3763.38 --> 3769.52]  The anchor in the waves, oh, he is my song.
+[3769.52 --> 3776.48]  Let the King of my heart be the fire inside my veins.
+[3776.48 --> 3782.68]  The echo of my days, oh, he is my song.
+[3782.68 --> 3789.68]  You are good, good, oh.
+[3789.68 --> 3795.68]  You are good, good, oh.
+[3795.68 --> 3801.68]  You are good, good, oh.
+[3801.68 --> 3808.68]  You are good, good, oh.
+[3808.68 --> 3810.68]  You are good, oh.
+[3810.68 --> 3815.68]  You're never gonna let me down.
+[3815.68 --> 3823.96]  Never gonna let me down.
+[3823.96 --> 3835.64]  You are never gonna let, never gonna let me down.
+[3835.64 --> 3837.64]  down
+[3842.64 --> 3844.64]  you are good
+[3844.64 --> 3846.64]  good
+[3846.64 --> 3848.64]  oh
+[3848.64 --> 3850.64]  you are
+[3850.64 --> 3852.64]  good
+[3852.64 --> 3854.64]  oh
+[3854.64 --> 3856.64]  you are
+[3856.64 --> 3858.64]  good
+[3858.64 --> 3860.64]  good
+[3860.64 --> 3862.64]  oh
+[3865.64 --> 3879.64]  when the night
+[3879.64 --> 3881.64]  is holding
+[3881.64 --> 3883.64]  on
+[3883.64 --> 3885.64]  to me
+[3885.64 --> 3887.64]  God
+[3887.64 --> 3889.64]  is holding
+[3889.64 --> 3891.64]  on
+[3891.64 --> 3895.64]  when the night
+[3895.64 --> 3897.64]  is holding
+[3897.64 --> 3899.64]  on
+[3899.64 --> 3901.64]  to me
+[3901.64 --> 3903.64]  God
+[3903.64 --> 3905.64]  is holding
+[3905.64 --> 3907.64]  on
+[3911.64 --> 3915.64]  Pastor Chris is going to come up and give us a blessing before our final song.
+[3915.64 --> 3922.64]  I just wanted to say we don't have a schedule of future dates of praise and prayer but we do plan on having more services.
+[3922.64 --> 3925.64]  Tonight we picked a bunch of songs that were our favorites.
+[3925.64 --> 3933.64]  In future evenings we hope to have different types of focuses like worship in our many cultures, the work of the Holy Spirit and more.
+[3933.64 --> 3942.64]  So if you have any feedback or ideas please feel free to contact Sarah or myself and we'd be happy to hear from you. Thank you.
+[3942.64 --> 3971.64]  I needed that tonight. I don't know about you. Bless God. God's blessed us and he blesses us in our going. And so I invite you to take a posture of receipt, whatever that is, holding your hands out, opening your heart up, lifting your eyes to the heavens.
+[3971.64 --> 3976.64]  But hear these words of God spoken over you.
+[3976.64 --> 3981.64]  The Lord bless you.
+[3981.64 --> 3983.64]  And keep you.
+[3983.64 --> 3989.64]  The Lord turn his face towards you and be gracious to you.
+[3989.64 --> 3996.64]  May God look at you and smile.
+[3996.64 --> 4001.64]  May he give you his peace.
+[4001.64 --> 4005.64]  And all God's people said, Amen.
+[4005.64 --> 4009.64]  Amen.
+[4009.64 --> 4032.64]  Lord, my heart can grow so far away and cold.
+[4032.64 --> 4039.64]  And yet for me your love is still the same.
+[4039.64 --> 4047.64]  Lord, I bend my knee in awe and fear of thee.
+[4047.64 --> 4055.64]  My head bow down in reverence to your name.
+[4055.64 --> 4056.64]  I lift your name.
+[4056.64 --> 4060.64]  I lift your name.
+[4060.64 --> 4062.64]  Your holy name.
+[4062.64 --> 4071.64]  Jehovah God, Elohim.
+[4071.64 --> 4072.64]  The great I am.
+[4072.64 --> 4076.64]  The great I am.
+[4076.64 --> 4079.64]  The risen man.
+[4079.64 --> 4086.64]  My comforter and king.
+[4086.64 --> 4096.64]  Lord, my heart's desire is to be filled with spirit fire.
+[4096.64 --> 4103.64]  My purpose is to worship you alone.
+[4103.64 --> 4104.64]  Open up my soul.
+[4104.64 --> 4108.64]  Open up my soul.
+[4108.64 --> 4113.64]  To worship and adore.
+[4113.64 --> 4118.64]  To be a fragrance offered to your throne.
+[4118.64 --> 4119.64]  I lift your name.
+[4119.64 --> 4120.64]  I lift your name.
+[4120.64 --> 4121.64]  Your holy name.
+[4121.64 --> 4123.64]  I lift your name.
+[4123.64 --> 4124.64]  Your holy name.
+[4124.64 --> 4125.64]  Jehovah God, Elohim.
+[4125.64 --> 4126.64]  The great I am.
+[4126.64 --> 4127.64]  The risen man.
+[4127.64 --> 4128.64]  My comforter and king.
+[4128.64 --> 4129.64]  The great I am.
+[4129.64 --> 4131.64]  The risen man.
+[4131.64 --> 4132.64]  My comforter and king.
+[4132.64 --> 4137.64]  The great I am.
+[4137.64 --> 4139.64]  The risen man.
+[4139.64 --> 4143.64]  The risen man.
+[4143.64 --> 4152.64]  My comforter and king.
+[4152.64 --> 4154.64]  I lift your name.
+[4154.64 --> 4157.64]  Your holy name.
+[4157.64 --> 4160.64]  Jehovah God, Elohim.
+[4160.64 --> 4169.64]  Jehovah God, Elohim.
+[4169.64 --> 4173.64]  The great I am.
+[4173.64 --> 4178.64]  The risen man.
+[4178.64 --> 4188.64]  My comforter and king.
+[4190.64 --> 4191.64]  I know aぶ.
+[4191.64 --> 4193.64]  I never fr beaucoup.
+[4193.64 --> 4199.64]  I want all the earth to stand.
+[4199.64 --> 4200.64]  My here.
+[4200.64 --> 4204.64]  Wow...
+[4204.64 --> 4234.62]  Thank you.

Songs from Home - June 6 2021_summary.txt

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+• Speaking the power to prevail and chasing away darkness
+• The name of God as power over darkness, freedom, mercy, faithfulness, and glory
+• The Holy Spirit's presence and power in worship
+• Singing praises to God with heart and soul
+• Worshiping Jesus as King of nations and Lord of all
+• Invocation of God to come and fill the temple
+• Praise and worship of Jesus as King of nations
+• Recognition of God's holiness and judgment
+• Worship and adoration of God, including praise through music and singing
+• Acknowledgment of human sinfulness and need for salvation
+• Assurance that God will hold people fast through His love and promises
+• The speaker reflects on faith and salvation
+• The devil's power is contrasted with God's love and redemption
+• Psalm 96 is read and interpreted as a call to worship and praise God
+• The importance of worshipping God in the midst of uncertainty and doubt
+• The prophet Joel's words are referenced, encouraging a return to God with heart and fasting
+• Prayer and worship are emphasized as a way to connect with God and experience His power.
+• Prayer and worship
+• Conviction of truth and exposure of darkness
+• Desire for God's presence and love
+• Gratitude for change and progress in the world
+• Request to fulfill God's will and work in the world
+• Petition to end pandemic, loneliness, and suffering
+• Acknowledgment of God's power and sovereignty
+• Worship and praise to God's name
+• Recognition of dependence on God's presence
+• Praise to the Son, Spirit, and God of glory
+• Lyrics referencing Jesus Christ's resurrection and salvation
+• Piano music playing softly throughout the transcript
+• Prayers and blessings asking for God's presence, favor, and peace
+• References to the Bible (Psalm 128) in closing prayer
+• Expressions of faith and trust in God's power
+• Repeating phrases about God's ability to move mountains, heal, and revive dreams
+• References to the name of Jesus and His power to break through obstacles
+• Invitations to sing and believe in greater things
+• Statements emphasizing that there is no power like the power of Jesus
+• The audio cuts to a close-up perspective.

Songs from Home - June 6 2021_transcript.txt

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+[0.00 --> 9.06]  Every lie, my sword, in every fight, the truth will chase away the night.
+[10.00 --> 20.16]  Your name is power over darkness, freedom for the captains, mercy for the broken and the hopeless.
+[20.16 --> 32.00]  Your name is faithful in the battle, glory in the struggle, mighty, it won't let us down or fail us.
+[32.24 --> 34.16]  Your name is power.
+[37.16 --> 39.80]  Your name is power.
+[43.80 --> 48.08]  I know it is written, hope is certain.
+[48.08 --> 53.08]  Yeah, I know that the world will never fail.
+[55.10 --> 64.08]  Oh, I know that in every situation, yes, I know you speak the power to prevail.
+[65.80 --> 75.08]  Louder than every lie, my sword, in every fight, the truth will chase away the night.
+[75.08 --> 87.08]  Your name is power over darkness, freedom for the captains, mercy for the broken and the hopeless.
+[88.08 --> 98.08]  Your name is faithful in the battle, glory in the struggle, mighty, it won't let us down or fail us.
+[98.08 --> 101.08]  Your name is power.
+[101.08 --> 103.08]  Your name is power.
+[103.08 --> 105.08]  Your name is power.
+[105.08 --> 107.08]  Your name is power.
+[107.08 --> 113.08]  When you speak, you scatter darkness, light arrives and heaven opens.
+[113.08 --> 114.08]  Holy Spirit, let us hear it.
+[114.08 --> 116.08]  When you speak, you scatter darkness, light arrives and heaven opens.
+[116.08 --> 118.08]  Holy Spirit, let us hear it.
+[118.08 --> 120.08]  When you speak, you scatter darkness, light arrives and heaven opens.
+[120.08 --> 121.08]  Holy Spirit, let us hear it.
+[121.08 --> 122.08]  Let us hear it.
+[122.08 --> 125.08]  When you speak, you scatter darkness, light arrives and heaven opens.
+[125.08 --> 129.08]  Holy Spirit, let us hear it.
+[129.08 --> 136.08]  When you speak, you scatter darkness, light arrives and heaven opens.
+[136.08 --> 137.08]  Holy Spirit, let us hear it.
+[137.08 --> 138.08]  When you speak, the church awakens.
+[138.08 --> 139.08]  We believe the change is coming.
+[139.08 --> 144.08]  Holy Spirit, let us hear it.
+[144.08 --> 145.08]  When you speak, the church awakens.
+[145.08 --> 146.08]  When you speak, the church awakens.
+[146.08 --> 147.08]  We believe the change is coming.
+[147.08 --> 152.08]  Holy Spirit, let us hear it.
+[152.08 --> 157.08]  Holy Spirit, let us hear it.
+[157.08 --> 161.08]  Your name is power over darkness.
+[161.08 --> 164.08]  Freedom for the captains.
+[164.08 --> 168.08]  Mercy for the broken and hopeless.
+[168.08 --> 172.08]  Your name is faithful in the battle.
+[172.08 --> 175.08]  Glory in the struggle.
+[175.08 --> 180.08]  Mighty, it will let us down our failures.
+[180.08 --> 185.08]  Your name is power over darkness.
+[185.08 --> 191.08]  Your name is power in the chaos.
+[191.08 --> 194.08]  Your name is power.
+[198.08 --> 200.08]  Holy Spirit, let us hear it.
+[200.08 --> 201.08]  Anyone can hear it.
+[201.08 --> 203.08]  The Lord has heard it.
+[203.08 --> 205.08]  They are broken.
+[205.08 --> 206.08]  They are broken.
+[206.08 --> 208.08]  Your name is power.
+[208.08 --> 209.08]  Holy Spirit, let us hear it.
+[210.08 --> 211.08]  Holy Spirit, let us hear it.
+[211.08 --> 212.08]  Come.
+[212.08 --> 217.08]  Holy Spirit, let us hear it.
+[217.08 --> 222.08]  You are broken.
+[222.08 --> 223.08]  Come.
+[223.08 --> 225.08]  Holy Spirit, let us hear it.
+[225.08 --> 226.08]  We have heard it.
+[226.08 --> 236.20]  Burn like a fire
+[236.20 --> 239.20]  Living flame
+[239.20 --> 244.60]  Good evening.
+[246.46 --> 248.72]  All right, let's try again.
+[249.50 --> 250.06]  Good evening.
+[250.64 --> 254.24]  Thank you so much for joining with us
+[254.24 --> 257.78]  as we gather together to sing a new song to the Lord.
+[257.90 --> 261.56]  We gather tonight to sing praises to our God.
+[261.68 --> 265.64]  We gather tonight to lift up our hearts in worship.
+[265.86 --> 270.82]  We gather to lift our holy hands in praise of our good God.
+[270.92 --> 272.22]  And so wherever you are at,
+[272.22 --> 275.78]  I encourage you to sing out tonight.
+[276.66 --> 277.42]  Sing from the heart.
+[278.38 --> 281.68]  Express your soul and your longing to our God
+[281.68 --> 284.62]  as we sing praises to him.
+[284.72 --> 285.76]  Some songs will be familiar.
+[285.98 --> 288.30]  Some might be a little bit more new.
+[288.70 --> 293.62]  But as you are able, join in our worship together.
+[294.56 --> 296.76]  I'm going to kick us off with a greeting from God
+[296.76 --> 301.02]  as we come into his presence to worship his name.
+[302.52 --> 306.14]  Grace, mercy, and peace to you
+[306.14 --> 308.92]  from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ,
+[309.28 --> 311.36]  his Son and our Savior
+[311.36 --> 315.12]  through the presence and power of the Holy Spirit.
+[316.16 --> 316.56]  Amen.
+[317.46 --> 319.44]  Let's worship God in song tonight, shall we?
+[319.44 --> 338.86]  song now.
+[338.92 --> 347.06]  Let's worship Jesus
+[347.06 --> 353.32]  Jesus, King of nations, Lord of all.
+[353.86 --> 362.10]  Make the best sense and glorious, just and merciful.
+[364.82 --> 375.40]  Jesus, King of nations, Jesus, Lord of all.
+[375.40 --> 386.28]  Jesus, King of nations, Lord of all.
+[387.36 --> 397.98]  Furnish our hearts of passion, deepest love and highest praise.
+[397.98 --> 408.86]  Voice, race, and language blending on the world of faith.
+[408.86 --> 420.62]  Jesus, King of nations, Jesus, Lord of all.
+[420.62 --> 431.50]  Jesus, King of nations, Lord of all.
+[431.50 --> 443.98]  Three tributes from the nations, coming joyful, careful kings.
+[443.98 --> 454.86]  One wondrous acclamation, one prayer of grace.
+[454.86 --> 466.86]  Jesus, King of nations, Lord of all.
+[466.86 --> 477.74]  Jesus, King of nations, Lord of all.
+[477.74 --> 478.74]  Lord of all.
+[478.74 --> 480.74]  Come, Lord of all.
+[480.74 --> 481.74]  Come, Lord of all.
+[481.74 --> 484.74]  Fill your temple.
+[484.74 --> 486.74]  Lord of all.
+[486.74 --> 489.74]  Your loving place.
+[489.74 --> 490.74]  Will nations, Lord of all.
+[490.74 --> 496.74]  Will nations, see your splendor.
+[496.74 --> 500.74]  And see your face.
+[500.74 --> 501.74]  If you so, Lord of all.
+[501.74 --> 505.74]  Jesus, King of nations, Lord of all.
+[505.74 --> 525.74]  Jesus, King of nations, Lord of all.
+[525.74 --> 531.34]  Lord of all
+[531.34 --> 537.82]  Hear God and give His glory
+[537.82 --> 542.52]  For He's out of judgment
+[542.52 --> 549.56]  The Son of God Almighty
+[549.56 --> 554.06]  Worship Him above
+[555.74 --> 585.72]  Worship Him above
+[585.74 --> 597.36]  All the poor and powerless
+[597.36 --> 603.86]  All the lost and lonely
+[603.86 --> 610.86]  All the thieves will come confess
+[610.86 --> 616.02]  I know that you are holy
+[616.02 --> 622.66]  I know that you are holy
+[622.66 --> 630.86]  Come and sing out alleluia
+[630.86 --> 638.86]  We will cry out alleluia
+[640.86 --> 647.86]  All the hearts you are content
+[647.86 --> 655.86]  All the hearts you are content
+[655.86 --> 661.40]  All will feel unworthy
+[661.40 --> 668.02]  All the hurt with nothing left
+[668.02 --> 673.02]  I know that you are holy
+[673.02 --> 683.02]  All will sing out alleluia
+[683.02 --> 689.02]  We will cry out alleluia
+[689.02 --> 696.02]  All the love we'll sing out alleluia
+[696.02 --> 701.02]  We will cry out alleluia
+[701.02 --> 706.02]  Alleluia
+[706.02 --> 713.02]  Shout it
+[713.02 --> 719.02]  Go on and scream it from the mountains
+[719.02 --> 722.02]  Go on and tell it to the masses
+[722.02 --> 729.02]  Go on and tell it to the masses
+[729.02 --> 733.02]  And He is God
+[733.02 --> 734.02]  That He is God
+[734.02 --> 738.02]  That He is God
+[738.02 --> 739.02]  And He is God
+[739.02 --> 740.02]  Shout it
+[740.02 --> 741.02]  Go on and scream it from the mountains
+[741.02 --> 746.02]  Go on and tell it to the masses
+[746.02 --> 753.02]  Go on and tell it to the masses
+[753.02 --> 761.02]  Go on and scream it from the mountains
+[761.02 --> 763.02]  Go on and tell it to the masses
+[763.02 --> 764.02]  That He is God
+[764.02 --> 765.02]  That He is God
+[765.02 --> 766.02]  He is God
+[766.02 --> 768.02]  He is God
+[768.02 --> 769.02]  He is God
+[769.02 --> 771.02]  He is God
+[771.02 --> 773.02]  We will sing out alleluia
+[773.02 --> 774.02]  We will sing out alleluia
+[774.02 --> 775.02]  We will cry out alleluia
+[775.02 --> 779.02]  We will sing out alleluia
+[779.02 --> 788.02]  And He is called now
+[788.02 --> 793.78]  We will sing our running,
+[794.24 --> 800.14]  Gloria, we will cry our running,
+[800.14 --> 806.56]  Gloria, we will sing our running,
+[806.56 --> 812.94]  Gloria, we will cry our running,
+[813.20 --> 817.40]  Gloria, we will shout it.
+[818.52 --> 823.08]  Go on and scream it from the mountain.
+[823.08 --> 829.54]  Go on and tell it to the master
+[829.54 --> 836.50]  That He is called.
+[840.50 --> 842.80]  Shout it.
+[843.88 --> 848.92]  Go on and scream it from the mountains.
+[848.92 --> 855.46]  Go on and tell it to the master
+[855.46 --> 862.38]  That He is called.
+[862.38 --> 869.32]  Go on and say the camera.
+[869.32 --> 871.74]  c Kah
+[871.74 --> 872.74]  Amen.
+[901.74 --> 911.94]  When I hear my name, Christ will hold me fast.
+[911.94 --> 921.20]  When the tender word prevail, He will hold me fast.
+[921.20 --> 925.82]  I could never keep my hold.
+[925.82 --> 934.70]  Through my simple path, for my love is often cold.
+[934.70 --> 939.70]  He must hold me fast.
+[941.08 --> 945.12]  He will hold me fast.
+[945.54 --> 948.70]  He will hold me fast.
+[949.16 --> 952.74]  For my Savior loves me so.
+[952.74 --> 958.62]  He will hold me fast.
+[958.62 --> 967.62]  He will hold me fast.
+[967.62 --> 975.62]  Since saints are His divine, Christ will hold me fast.
+[975.62 --> 981.50]  Since saints are His holy sight.
+[981.50 --> 985.50]  He will hold me fast.
+[985.50 --> 989.50]  I will not let my soul be lost.
+[989.50 --> 993.38]  His promises shall last.
+[993.38 --> 998.26]  From my name is such a God.
+[999.38 --> 1003.38]  He will hold me fast.
+[1003.38 --> 1008.38]  He will hold me fast.
+[1008.38 --> 1012.26]  He will hold me fast.
+[1012.26 --> 1016.26]  For my Savior loves me so.
+[1016.26 --> 1020.14]  He will hold me fast.
+[1020.14 --> 1022.14]  He will hold me fast.
+[1022.14 --> 1028.02]  He will hold me fast.
+[1028.02 --> 1032.02]  I will hold me fast.
+[1032.02 --> 1036.02]  I will hold me fast.
+[1036.02 --> 1039.90]  Christ will hold me fast.
+[1039.90 --> 1041.90]  Christ will hold me fast.
+[1041.90 --> 1045.78]  when He comes at His chorus.
+[1045.78 --> 1046.34]  Christ will come fast.
+[1046.34 --> 1048.78]  His presence.
+[1048.78 --> 1052.28]  He will hold me fast.
+[1052.28 --> 1054.84]  He will hold me fast.
+[1054.84 --> 1055.86]  He will hold me fast.
+[1055.86 --> 1057.60]  He will hold me fast.
+[1057.60 --> 1064.80]  till our faith is turned to side when he comes
+[1072.16 --> 1078.40]  will hold me fast for my savior loves me so
+[1087.60 --> 1096.40]  he will hold me fast for my savior loves me so
+[1096.40 --> 1108.40]  hold me fast
+[1117.60 --> 1142.16]  it's time
+[1147.60 --> 1151.04]  The devil roars his empty hands.
+[1151.76 --> 1155.10]  I will preach the gospel to myself,
+[1155.60 --> 1159.34]  that I am not a man condemned,
+[1160.26 --> 1164.76]  for Jesus Christ is my defense.
+[1165.44 --> 1171.96]  The sin is nailed to the cross.
+[1171.96 --> 1176.68]  My soul is healed by the scars.
+[1176.68 --> 1179.10]  The weight of guilt
+[1179.10 --> 1181.76]  I'm there no more
+[1181.76 --> 1184.18]  Praise the Lord
+[1184.18 --> 1186.72]  Praise the Lord
+[1186.72 --> 1198.20]  Now I don't say over me
+[1198.20 --> 1202.56]  The heroes of the enemy
+[1202.56 --> 1216.56]  I will run again to Calvary, the rugged hill, from hell's defeat, my fortress and my victory.
+[1216.56 --> 1238.56]  My sin is filled to the cross, my soul is filled by the sky, the weight of guilt, I dare no more. Praise the Lord, praise the Lord.
+[1238.56 --> 1252.56]  My sin is filled to the cross, my soul is filled by the sky, the weight of guilt, I dare no more.
+[1252.56 --> 1257.56]  Praise the Lord, praise the Lord.
+[1257.56 --> 1266.56]  It is finished, it is vanquished, hallelujah, praise the Lord.
+[1266.56 --> 1276.56]  All the glory, all the honor, to my Savior, Christ the Lord.
+[1276.56 --> 1286.56]  My sin is finished, it is vanquished, hallelujah, praise the Lord.
+[1286.56 --> 1299.56]  All the glory, all the honor, to my Savior, Christ the Lord.
+[1299.56 --> 1308.56]  I will stand before the throne at last, His blood will plead my innocence.
+[1309.56 --> 1325.56]  I will worship Him with holy hands, and praise the song that never ends, of Jesus Christ, my righteousness.
+[1325.56 --> 1339.56]  My sin is filled to the cross, my soul is filled by the sky, the weight of guilt, I dare no more.
+[1339.56 --> 1344.56]  Praise the Lord, praise the Lord.
+[1344.56 --> 1359.56]  My sin is filled to the cross, my soul is filled by the stars, now I am alive forevermore.
+[1359.56 --> 1363.56]  Praise the Lord, praise the Lord.
+[1363.56 --> 1368.56]  Oh, praise the Lord, praise the Lord.
+[1368.56 --> 1388.36]  I am reading from Psalm 96.
+[1389.64 --> 1391.58]  Sing to the Lord a new song.
+[1391.72 --> 1393.24]  Sing to the Lord, all the earth.
+[1393.76 --> 1395.76]  Sing to the Lord, praise his name.
+[1395.76 --> 1398.52]  Proclaim his salvation day after day.
+[1399.38 --> 1403.42]  Declare his glory among the nations, his marvelous deeds among the peoples.
+[1404.12 --> 1406.74]  For great is the Lord and most worthy of praise.
+[1407.04 --> 1409.38]  He is to be feared above all gods.
+[1409.98 --> 1414.16]  For all the gods of the nations are idols, but the Lord made the heavens.
+[1414.72 --> 1416.70]  Splendor and majesty are before him.
+[1417.06 --> 1419.08]  Strength and glory are in his sanctuary.
+[1420.44 --> 1423.38]  Ascribe to the Lord, all you families of nations.
+[1423.80 --> 1426.30]  Ascribe to the Lord glory and strength.
+[1426.30 --> 1429.42]  Ascribe to the Lord the glory due his name.
+[1430.12 --> 1432.54]  Bring an offering and come into his courts.
+[1433.56 --> 1436.08]  Worship the Lord in the splendor of his holiness.
+[1436.58 --> 1438.28]  Tremble before him, all the earth.
+[1438.76 --> 1441.10]  Say among the nations, the Lord reigns.
+[1441.66 --> 1443.40]  The world is firmly established.
+[1443.76 --> 1445.00]  It cannot be moved.
+[1445.34 --> 1447.74]  He will judge the peoples with equity.
+[1447.74 --> 1450.32]  Let the heavens rejoice.
+[1450.72 --> 1451.80]  Let the earth be glad.
+[1452.30 --> 1454.88]  Let the sea resound and all that is in it.
+[1455.38 --> 1457.96]  Let the fields be jubilant and everything in them.
+[1458.30 --> 1461.02]  Let all the trees of the forest sing for joy.
+[1461.54 --> 1465.14]  Let all creation rejoice before the Lord, for he comes.
+[1465.48 --> 1467.00]  He comes to judge the earth.
+[1467.40 --> 1471.48]  He will judge the world in righteousness and the peoples in his faithfulness.
+[1471.48 --> 1477.70]  Let's take some time to pray together in our worship.
+[1477.70 --> 1487.14]  Thank you, Lord God, for the opportunity of worship.
+[1487.86 --> 1492.16]  For the freedom to sing your praises at will.
+[1492.16 --> 1500.56]  Thank you that in worship we can put aside the uncertainties of this world
+[1500.56 --> 1504.30]  and rest upon the certainties of the kingdom.
+[1505.30 --> 1510.68]  For your promises are not changeable as those of any man or woman might be,
+[1511.46 --> 1514.10]  but they are immovable and eternal.
+[1514.10 --> 1524.56]  Holy Father, we gather in your presence tonight.
+[1526.50 --> 1529.06]  We gather as those who long to sing your praises.
+[1529.24 --> 1532.60]  We gather as those who long to meet you in our worship.
+[1532.74 --> 1536.12]  And so, Holy Spirit, move in power.
+[1538.16 --> 1540.78]  Move in us each tonight.
+[1540.78 --> 1547.92]  Wherever we are in this place or far afield, we pray, move in power.
+[1550.98 --> 1558.56]  Father God, as we worship, I hear you speaking to us in the words of the prophet Joel.
+[1560.36 --> 1563.18]  Spirit, I hear you say, even now, declares the Lord,
+[1563.30 --> 1567.46]  return to me with all your heart, with fasting and weeping and mourning.
+[1567.46 --> 1571.02]  Rend your heart and not your garments.
+[1572.50 --> 1576.42]  Return to the Lord your God, for he is gracious and compassionate,
+[1576.64 --> 1579.92]  slow to anger and abounding in love.
+[1582.02 --> 1586.34]  Father God, tonight may we know your abounding love.
+[1586.34 --> 1596.86]  And in the security of your love and presence, convict us of your truth.
+[1598.32 --> 1605.54]  May we genuinely, deeply, authentically rend our hearts.
+[1607.54 --> 1614.02]  Tear open the dark places of our soul and expose them to your light.
+[1614.02 --> 1619.62]  Peer into the depths of our darkness.
+[1621.16 --> 1625.56]  And try us and know us intimately.
+[1629.16 --> 1634.16]  God, tonight may we open ourselves up to you.
+[1634.16 --> 1641.08]  May we feel you at work in us and through us.
+[1641.22 --> 1644.80]  And may we see you at work in the world, in your power.
+[1645.50 --> 1648.10]  We rend our hearts in the name of Jesus.
+[1653.10 --> 1659.66]  We rend our hearts to see you here now.
+[1659.66 --> 1687.40]  Holy Father, we thank you for the changes that are happening around us in the world,
+[1687.40 --> 1697.42]  especially as we see the COVID pandemic being pushed back and being beaten by our restart efforts and plans.
+[1697.50 --> 1701.92]  And we praise your name for your work in accomplishing your will.
+[1701.92 --> 1710.46]  And even as we give you thanks, Lord God, we pray that you would use us to fulfill your will and your work in the world.
+[1710.46 --> 1718.06]  And so, Lord God, we pray the church of Jesus Christ, praise, crying out, calling out,
+[1718.38 --> 1728.52]  end this pandemic, end our loneliness, end our isolation, end our crying and our mourning as we call out to you, Lord Jesus.
+[1728.52 --> 1738.46]  Take our broken hearts and make us whole.
+[1742.96 --> 1746.58]  May we know, Lord God, as you say in the prophet Malachi,
+[1746.58 --> 1776.56]  may we know that you hold all the way to the Lord,
+[1776.56 --> 1782.52]  all history in your hands and it is by the prayers of your saints that you move in the world.
+[1782.66 --> 1784.14]  And so we pray.
+[1785.88 --> 1787.34]  We rend our hearts
+[1787.34 --> 1789.40]  and we worship.
+[1791.40 --> 1792.88]  We give you thanks
+[1792.88 --> 1794.74]  for this chance
+[1794.74 --> 1796.56]  to be here
+[1796.56 --> 1798.66]  together in your
+[1798.66 --> 1799.78]  presence,
+[1800.56 --> 1802.88]  singing your praise.
+[1802.88 --> 1814.32]  Thank you
+[1814.32 --> 1818.42]  that as we draw near in worship,
+[1819.42 --> 1821.40]  we are transported
+[1821.40 --> 1823.30]  from a world
+[1823.30 --> 1825.06]  of concerns
+[1825.06 --> 1826.18]  and fears
+[1826.18 --> 1829.56]  to a place
+[1829.56 --> 1832.30]  where we can be at peace
+[1832.30 --> 1834.22]  in your presence,
+[1835.62 --> 1836.32]  find healing,
+[1837.42 --> 1837.90]  wholeness,
+[1838.84 --> 1839.52]  and refreshment.
+[1842.52 --> 1843.90]  Thank you, Lord God,
+[1845.18 --> 1846.52]  for the opportunity
+[1846.52 --> 1848.68]  of worship.
+[1848.68 --> 1851.94]  Amen.
+[1851.98 --> 1852.10]  Amen.
+[1852.10 --> 1853.10]  Amen.
+[1882.10 --> 1883.10]  Amen.
+[1912.10 --> 1914.10]  Amen.
+[1918.10 --> 1922.10]  This is my daily bread.
+[1925.10 --> 1930.10]  This is my daily bread.
+[1931.10 --> 1940.10]  Your very word spoken.
+[1942.10 --> 1955.10]  And I'm desperate for you.
+[1956.10 --> 1970.10]  And I'm lost without you.
+[1972.10 --> 1974.10]  Amen.
+[1974.10 --> 1980.10]  This is the air I breathe.
+[1980.10 --> 1994.10]  Your holy presence.
+[1994.10 --> 2000.10]  Living in me.
+[2000.10 --> 2010.10]  This is my daily bread.
+[2010.10 --> 2016.10]  This is my daily bread.
+[2016.10 --> 2028.10]  Your very word spoken to me.
+[2028.10 --> 2040.10]  And I'm desperate for you.
+[2040.10 --> 2042.10]  And I'm desperate for you.
+[2042.10 --> 2044.10]  And I'm desperate for you.
+[2044.10 --> 2046.10]  And I'm desperate for you.
+[2046.10 --> 2050.10]  And I'm desperate for you.
+[2050.10 --> 2052.10]  And I'm desperate for you.
+[2052.10 --> 2056.10]  And I'm desperate for you.
+[2056.10 --> 2058.10]  And I'm desperate for you.
+[2058.10 --> 2062.10]  And I'm desperate for you.
+[2062.10 --> 2065.10]  And I'm desperate for you.
+[2065.10 --> 2070.10]  And I'm desperate for you.
+[2070.10 --> 2082.86]  And I, I'm lost without you
+[2082.86 --> 2093.36]  You are the air I breathe
+[2093.36 --> 2100.90]  You are the air I breathe
+[2123.36 --> 2135.94]  In the darkness we were waiting
+[2135.94 --> 2139.60]  Without hope, without light
+[2139.60 --> 2142.98]  Till from heaven you came running
+[2142.98 --> 2146.80]  There was mercy in your eyes
+[2146.80 --> 2150.38]  To fulfill the love and promise
+[2150.38 --> 2153.92]  To a virgin came the world
+[2153.92 --> 2157.48]  From a throne of endless glory
+[2157.48 --> 2161.60]  To a cradle in the dirt
+[2161.60 --> 2170.72]  Praise the Father
+[2170.72 --> 2174.22]  Praise the Son
+[2174.22 --> 2177.38]  Praise the Spirit
+[2177.38 --> 2181.22]  Three in one
+[2181.22 --> 2184.48]  God of glory
+[2184.48 --> 2186.48]  Majesty
+[2186.48 --> 2192.48]  Praise forever to the King
+[2192.48 --> 2194.48]  The King
+[2194.48 --> 2203.60]  To reveal the kingdom coming
+[2203.60 --> 2207.14]  And to reconcile the lost
+[2207.14 --> 2210.44]  To redeem the whole creation
+[2210.44 --> 2214.04]  You did not despise the cross
+[2214.04 --> 2217.36]  For even in your suffering
+[2217.36 --> 2221.00]  You saw to the other side
+[2221.00 --> 2224.12]  For like this was our salvation
+[2224.12 --> 2225.38]  Jesus for the Lord
+[2225.38 --> 2226.50]  Jesus for the sake
+[2226.50 --> 2227.38]  We'll die
+[2227.38 --> 2236.22]  Praise the Father
+[2236.22 --> 2237.22]  Praise the Son
+[2237.22 --> 2239.22]  Praise the Son
+[2239.22 --> 2243.22]  Praise the Spirit
+[2243.22 --> 2246.76]  Three in one
+[2246.76 --> 2250.32]  God of glory
+[2250.32 --> 2251.42]  Hallelujah
+[2251.46 --> 2252.86]  Pajesty
+[2252.86 --> 2254.58]  Praise the King
+[2254.58 --> 2255.08]  Praise the King
+[2255.08 --> 2256.00]  Praise the King
+[2256.00 --> 2256.36]  Praise the King
+[2256.36 --> 2257.10]  Praise the King
+[2257.10 --> 2258.00]  Praise the King
+[2258.00 --> 2259.98]  And the King
+[2259.98 --> 2261.50]  And the Queen
+[2261.50 --> 2264.86] 在�日子 shown
+[2264.86 --> 2278.82]  In the morning that you rose, all of heaven held its breath, till its stone was moved for good, for the Lamb had conquered death.
+[2278.82 --> 2292.58]  And the dead was rolled their tombs, and the angels stood in awe, for the souls of all who'd come, to the Father I'll restore.
+[2292.58 --> 2306.18]  When the church of Christ was born, and the Spirit lit the flame, now this gospel truth of old shall not be, shall not be.
+[2306.18 --> 2319.54]  By His blood and in His name, in His freedom I am free, for the love of Jesus Christ who has resurrected me.
+[2322.58 --> 2338.66]  Praise the Father, praise the Son, praise the Spirit, free in heart.
+[2338.66 --> 2352.08]  God of glory, God of sea, praise forever to the King of Cain.
+[2352.08 --> 2359.42]  Praise forever to the King of Cain.
+[2359.42 --> 2376.60]  Praise forever to the King of Cain.
+[2376.60 --> 2406.58]  piano plays softly
+[2406.60 --> 2436.58]  piano plays softly
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+[2522.58 --> 2524.58]  piano plays softly
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+[2530.58 --> 2534.58]  piano plays softly
+[2534.58 --> 2538.58]  piano plays softly
+[2538.58 --> 2539.58]  piano plays softly
+[2539.58 --> 2540.58]  piano play Sadhguru
+[2540.58 --> 2566.58] iedy
+[2568.58 --> 2575.58]  That your love surrounds me
+[2575.58 --> 2581.58]  Rain be near
+[2581.58 --> 2588.58]  Draw me to your side
+[2588.58 --> 2593.58]  And as I wait
+[2593.58 --> 2598.58]  Arise, I'll find the King
+[2598.58 --> 2603.58]  And I will sow with you
+[2603.58 --> 2606.58]  Your spirit leads me on
+[2606.58 --> 2611.58]  The power of your love
+[2618.58 --> 2625.78]  I want to thank you so much for being with us tonight
+[2625.78 --> 2630.04]  And for joining us in this time of praise to our God
+[2630.04 --> 2631.12]  Together
+[2631.12 --> 2634.74]  As you go
+[2634.74 --> 2638.20]  Know that God goes with you
+[2638.20 --> 2641.22]  And so receive his blessing
+[2641.22 --> 2644.32]  It is in this blessing and by this blessing
+[2644.32 --> 2647.76]  That God speaks his name over you
+[2647.76 --> 2650.20]  As his child
+[2650.20 --> 2653.40]  The Lord bless you
+[2653.40 --> 2655.02]  And keep you
+[2655.02 --> 2657.46]  The Lord make his face shine upon you
+[2657.46 --> 2659.38]  And be gracious to you
+[2659.38 --> 2662.76]  The Lord turn his face toward you
+[2662.76 --> 2666.30]  And give you his peace
+[2666.30 --> 2668.30]  Amen
+[2677.76 --> 2687.76]  Lord bless you
+[2687.76 --> 2692.02]  And keep you
+[2692.02 --> 2705.46]  Lord bless you
+[2705.46 --> 2709.28]  And keep you
+[2709.28 --> 2724.72]  Amen
+[2724.72 --> 2729.50]  And given peace
+[2729.50 --> 2733.22]  Amen
+[2733.90 --> 2738.04]  Amen
+[2738.04 --> 2743.06]  Amen
+[2743.70 --> 2748.98]  Amen
+[2749.62 --> 2754.10]  Amen
+[2754.10 --> 2761.10]  Amen, amen
+[2761.10 --> 2771.38]  Lord bless you and keep you
+[2771.38 --> 2775.94]  Make his face shine upon you
+[2775.94 --> 2779.26]  Be gracious to you
+[2779.26 --> 2785.86]  The Lord turn his face toward you
+[2785.86 --> 2791.26]  And give you peace
+[2791.26 --> 2807.46]  Amen, amen, amen
+[2809.26 --> 2819.26]  Amen, amen
+[2819.26 --> 2823.26]  Amen
+[2823.26 --> 2827.26]  May his favor be upon you
+[2827.26 --> 2829.26]  And a thousand generations
+[2829.26 --> 2833.26]  And your family and your children
+[2833.26 --> 2837.26]  And their children and their children
+[2837.26 --> 2840.26]  May his favor be upon you
+[2840.26 --> 2844.26]  And a thousand generations
+[2844.26 --> 2848.26]  And your family and your children
+[2848.26 --> 2854.26]  And their children and his presence
+[2854.26 --> 2857.26]  Go before you and behind you
+[2857.26 --> 2861.26]  And beside you and around you
+[2861.26 --> 2863.26]  He is with you
+[2863.26 --> 2864.26]  Within you
+[2864.26 --> 2865.26]  He is with you
+[2865.26 --> 2866.26]  He is with you
+[2866.26 --> 2867.26]  And your morning
+[2867.26 --> 2869.26]  And evening
+[2869.26 --> 2871.26]  And your going
+[2871.26 --> 2872.26]  And your going
+[2872.26 --> 2875.26]  And your weeping
+[2875.26 --> 2876.26]  Rejoicing
+[2876.26 --> 2878.26]  He is with you
+[2878.26 --> 2892.26]  He is for you
+[2892.26 --> 2894.26]  He is for you
+[2894.26 --> 2906.26]  Amen, amen, amen.
+[2906.26 --> 2919.26]  Amen, amen, amen.
+[2919.26 --> 2937.26]  Amen, amen, amen, amen.
+[2937.26 --> 2952.26]  Amen, amen, amen.
+[2955.26 --> 2957.26]  We have faith going out here.
+[2957.26 --> 2960.26]  There's nothing that our God can't do.
+[2960.26 --> 2966.26]  And just one word, you calm the storm that surrounds me.
+[2969.26 --> 2974.26]  Yeah, just one word, the darkness has to retreat.
+[2974.26 --> 2983.26]  And just one touch, I feel the presence of Him.
+[2983.26 --> 2992.26]  Yeah, just one touch, my eyes were open to see.
+[2992.26 --> 2994.26]  My heart can't help but believe.
+[2994.26 --> 2998.26]  Say, there's nothing that our God can't.
+[2999.26 --> 3003.26]  There's not a mountain that He can't move.
+[3004.26 --> 3008.26]  Well, praise the name that makes a way.
+[3009.26 --> 3012.26]  There's nothing that our God can't do.
+[3012.26 --> 3014.26]  Oh.
+[3015.26 --> 3017.26]  Yeah, just one word.
+[3017.26 --> 3021.26]  You heal what's broken inside me.
+[3021.26 --> 3023.26]  Just takes the word.
+[3024.26 --> 3026.26]  Well, just one word.
+[3026.26 --> 3029.26]  And you revive every dream.
+[3029.26 --> 3031.26]  You're gonna dream again.
+[3031.26 --> 3033.26]  You're gonna dream again.
+[3033.26 --> 3035.26]  Yeah, just one touch.
+[3035.26 --> 3036.26]  And you feel the love.
+[3036.26 --> 3038.26]  I feel the power of Him.
+[3038.26 --> 3041.26]  Yeah, just one touch.
+[3041.26 --> 3042.26]  And just one touch.
+[3042.26 --> 3043.26]  My eyes were open to see.
+[3043.26 --> 3045.26]  Well, I can't help but believe.
+[3045.26 --> 3048.26]  No one, there's nothing that our God can't do.
+[3048.26 --> 3050.26]  There's not a mountain that He can't move.
+[3050.26 --> 3051.26]  Oh, praise the name that brings a way.
+[3051.26 --> 3053.26]  There's nothing that our God can't do.
+[3054.26 --> 3056.26]  There's not a mountain that He can move.
+[3056.26 --> 3058.26]  Oh, praise the name that brings a way.
+[3058.26 --> 3063.74]  Oh, praise the name that makes a way
+[3063.74 --> 3067.08]  There's nothing that our God can't do
+[3067.08 --> 3071.58]  Oh, we believe there's nothing that our God can't do
+[3071.58 --> 3076.32]  There's not a prison one can't break through
+[3076.32 --> 3081.98]  Oh, praise the name that makes a way
+[3081.98 --> 3085.46]  There's nothing that our God can't do
+[3085.46 --> 3091.70]  Oh, yeah
+[3091.70 --> 3097.28]  Oh, yeah
+[3097.28 --> 3103.84]  Oh, we will sing and believe
+[3103.84 --> 3106.40]  Come on, we're saved
+[3106.40 --> 3111.34]  I will believe for greater things
+[3111.34 --> 3115.22]  There's no power like the power of Jesus
+[3115.22 --> 3118.16]  So let faith arise
+[3118.16 --> 3120.28]  Let all agree
+[3120.28 --> 3123.46]  There's no power like the power of Jesus
+[3123.46 --> 3125.04]  You gotta sing it, come on
+[3125.04 --> 3127.32]  I will believe, alright
+[3127.32 --> 3129.68]  For greater things
+[3129.68 --> 3131.16]  There's no power
+[3131.16 --> 3133.08]  Come on
+[3133.08 --> 3134.64]  Come on and sing
+[3134.64 --> 3135.64]  Let faith arise
+[3135.64 --> 3136.58]  Let faith arise
+[3136.58 --> 3137.70]  Let all agree
+[3137.70 --> 3138.70]  Let faith arise
+[3138.70 --> 3139.70]  Let all agree
+[3139.70 --> 3142.88]  There's no power like the power of Jesus
+[3142.88 --> 3147.92]  There's no power like the power of Jesus
+[3147.92 --> 3151.12]  There's no power like the power of Jesus
+[3151.12 --> 3156.86]  Jesus, let faith arise, let all agree.
+[3157.38 --> 3159.76]  There's no power like his power.
+[3160.08 --> 3162.02]  There's nothing that I can't.
+[3163.90 --> 3166.00]  Let's not imagine that.
+[3168.00 --> 3169.10]  Come on.
+[3169.30 --> 3173.34]  And praise the name that makes a way.
+[3173.34 --> 3177.82]  There's nothing, there's nothing that I'm Jesus can't do.
+[3177.82 --> 3181.28]  There's nothing that I can't do.
+[3182.08 --> 3186.28]  There's not a prison what we can't break through.
+[3187.52 --> 3191.62]  Praise the name that makes a way.
+[3192.06 --> 3195.14]  There's nothing that I can't do.
+[3195.14 --> 3197.08]  There's nothing that I can't do.
+[3197.10 --> 3198.60]  There's nothing that I can't do.
+[3198.60 --> 3200.60]  There's nothing that I can't do.
+[3200.60 --> 3203.12]  Nothing that I can't do.
+[3203.12 --> 3205.32]  There's nothing that I know is demasiado struggling.
+[3205.38 --> 3207.52]  That's my life.
+[3207.52 --> 3208.74]  There's nothing that I can't do.
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+• Adoption and being called one's own by God
+• The nature of God as a loving Father who sees and chooses individuals
+• Gratitude for salvation and freedom from captivity
+• Praise and worship of God's majesty, beauty, and creation
+• Singing and declaring Christ magnified in the speaker's life
+• Thanksgiving worship service
+• Young Adults group: Tri-Church tournament and care packages for students away at school
+• Church announcements and encouragement to bring home the trophy in the tournament
+• Care package gifts for university/college students
+• Invitation to participate in care package gift-giving
+• Greeting from God's presence
+• The congregation sings hymns and praises God's holiness and glory
+• Giving of gifts is discussed as a way to show gratitude to God for His blessings
+• The Langley Food Bank is mentioned as the recipient of today's special offering, with a goal of effecting lasting transformation in the lives of clients
+• A scripture reading from Matthew 19:21 is referenced
+• Next week's offering will be for the church budget and refugee chaplain Dina Nikolai
+• The congregation sings hymns again after the scripture reading
+• A discussion about Thanksgiving weekend and family dinners takes place
+• Discussion of a Thanksgiving video
+• Family members expressing gratitude for various things such as family, food, pets, school, sports, and Jesus
+• A blessing is led by an adult
+• Announcement of upcoming prayer session in church for families affected by COVID-19
+• Celebration of a recent wedding at the church
+• Acknowledging God's sovereignty and asking for His presence
+• Praying for peace and stability in Afghanistan, particularly for women and children
+• Asking for wisdom and calm to prevail in the conflict between China and Taiwan
+• Requesting healing, peace, and power from God in response to COVID-19 and its economic effects
+• Thanking God for the work of the Langley Food Bank and praying for the community's needs
+• Praying for the mission and ministry of the church at Langley Emmanuel
+• Blessing and thanksgiving for various ministry opportunities
+• Prayer for hope and faith when not seeing God's work clearly
+• Blessings for individuals and relationships, including a wedding celebration
+• Mourning and prayer for those struggling with death, including the loss of loved ones
+• Prayers for healing and comfort in times of struggle and hardship, particularly during COVID-19
+• Prayers for peace, strength, and provision
+• Update on Martin's health: stable and recovering from COVID-19
+• Celebration of Patrick's recovery and the family's gratitude
+• Prayers for those affected by COVID-19 within the church community
+• Requests for healing for individuals with COVID-19 and their families
+• Intercession for healthcare workers and their unique challenges during this time
+• Prayers for caregivers in long-term care homes and hospitals
+• Requesting God's guidance and truth be spoken to the congregation
+• Asking for understanding and growth in faith and knowledge of Jesus Christ
+• Continuing a series on 1 Peter, specifically discussing being born again into a living hope
+• Introduction to a Bible study written by Pastor Kevin and others
+• The book of 1 Peter is addressed to Christians living outside of a Christian culture
+• Commentary writing on 1 Peter has changed over the past few decades as society has shifted from a post-Christian to pagan culture
+• Many people identify as "spiritual but not religious," which is a fundamentally pagan idea
+• A Bible study based on 1 Peter is available for church members to go through at their own pace
+• The main theme of the series is living as exiles in a pagan land, and Jesus is presented as our inheritance.
+• Definition of the word "pagan" and its origins in Latin
+• Comparison to modern-day derogatory terms like "redneck," "hick," or "country bumpkin"
+• Discussion of how early Christians used the term "pagan" to describe those who did not recognize a transcendent sovereign God
+• Explanation of paganism as recognizing spiritual forces as part of the natural world and able to affect one's life
+• Discussion of modern-day cultural context where people are spiritual but not religious, citing an example of someone identifying as a pagan witch
+• The discussion begins with the notion of living in a "pagan" world, specifically referencing the influence of social media platforms like TikTok on younger generations.
+• The concept of being an "exile" is introduced as a way to identify with living in a foreign culture that is not one's own.
+• The passage from 1 Peter 1:13-25 is read and discussed, focusing on the themes of living out one's faith as an obedient child, being holy, and reverent fear in a pagan world.
+• The idea of "living out" a living hope that comes by the living word is emphasized as a key concept for understanding Christian life.
+• The concept of redemption through the blood of Christ
+• The imperishable nature of faith and hope in God
+• The fleeting nature of earthly things compared to the enduring word of God
+• The relationship between hope, living, and one's heart
+• The idea that one's actions reveal what they truly hope for
+• The speaker discusses the concept of hope in different situations, such as poverty, war, and personal struggles.
+• Hope is often placed in external sources or people, such as education, a spouse, career success, or technology.
+• In times of crisis, people may look for someone or something to rescue them from their circumstances.
+• The speaker notes that these actions are not inherently bad and can be beneficial.
+• However, the focus shifts towards being one's own hope, rather than relying solely on external sources.
+• Marriage and community are good things
+• Hope in created goods can lead to idolatry
+• When a good goal becomes the ultimate goal, it can become an idol
+• The creator is exchanged for a piece of creation
+• Idolatry is defined as exchanging truth about God for a lie and worshipping created things instead of the creator
+• The cultural influence of post-Christian Western individuals and cultures
+• The rise of therapeutic culture as an expression of expressive individualism
+• The prioritization of experience over rational consistency and feeling over thinking
+• The impact of Buddhist ideas, such as mindfulness and karma, on Christian institutions
+• The increasing popularity of spirituality and astrology among younger generations
+• The opposite of hope is fear
+• Fear of the unknown drives people to try and predict or control the future
+• People attempt to increase security in the present to lessen the impact of the unknown
+• In ancient times, ensuring a good future was done by pleasing gods or a higher power
+• Many religious and irreligious worldviews aim to minimize fear by providing a sense of security and meaning
+• A proper understanding of fear is that it's an appropriate response to God's mercy and justice
+• Peter's epistle emphasizes living with "reverent fear" as exiles, not being controlled by fear of others.
+• The speaker discusses a type of fear that is not driven by anxiety or dominance, but rather reverence and respect.
+• They differentiate this kind of fear from the fear that dominates modern society.
+• The speaker references the Bible and 1 John 4:18 to support their points.
+• They acknowledge that many people live in fear, even if they don't admit it to themselves.
+• The speaker suggests that people are seeking peace and power, often finding it in places like paganism or in Jesus Christ.
+• A woman is quoted as saying that people will find either witchcraft or Jesus, with the latter offering a different kind of fulfillment.
+• Fear vs. hope in the face of an uncertain future
+• The role of hope in determining one's actions and purpose in life
+• Knowing God's sovereignty over history gives hope for the future
+• Hope is demonstrated through holiness in one's present actions
+• Paganism and other worldviews offer rewards for certain behaviors, but not based on a relationship with God
+• The difference between Christianity, the gospel, and the Bible
+• Redemption from empty way of life to precious blood of Christ
+• Power and hope in God through Jesus' death and resurrection
+• Definition of power as revealed in weakness and willingness to serve
+• Examples of this power in everyday actions and humility towards others
+• Holiness being set apart in ways that don't make sense to the world
+• The speaker's life makes sense to people who know Jesus, but not those who don't
+• A missionary named Elliot Clark shared a story about his experience in Southeast Asia with a man named Hassan, a Muslim
+• Hassan was initially trained with assumptions about what Christians believe and had preconceived notions of Christianity
+• Elliot and Hassan had coffee together several years later and engaged in a two-hour conversation about their beliefs
+• The conversation allowed Hassan to learn more accurately what Christians believe, and he asked why Elliot didn't share this information earlier.
+• Reflecting on past interactions and learning from fear
+• Recognizing a greater fear, the fear of God, as a source of hope and holiness
+• The importance of reverence for God in guiding faith and actions
+• Purifying oneself through obedience to truth and developing sincere love for others
+• Being a witness to a divided world by genuinely loving one another from the heart
+• The importance of loving one another from the heart as a church
+• The church's need to thrive in a world that is deeply divided
+• Studying the early church for guidance on how to love and live together
+• The transformative power of God's word in the lives of believers
+• The enduring nature of God's word, which brings living hope and holiness
+• The call to live out the word of God and experience true life and love
+• The culture around us affects our lives and it's time to change the air we breathe by letting God's word come into us.
+• Jesus' experience in the wilderness after baptism shows how he resisted Satan's temptations by quoting scripture.
+• Quoting God's living and enduring word can help defeat temptations and give peace and power.
+• Letting God's word be the basis of our lives brings inner peace, power, and a connection to Jesus.
+• Living a life of hope and holiness transformed and sustained by the living Word
+• Praying to hear God's voice and be sustained in their journeys of faith and faithfulness
+• Sharing stories of love that led Jesus to the cross for them
+• Being raised victorious with Christ and sent out in peace and power of truth
+• Praising Allah and singing hymns about eternal life, heaven, and the works of grace
+• Shouting out against sin and hell and standing on the promise of God's reign
+• Gathering together as a church family to be encountered by God at the table
+• The Lord's Supper as a reminder of Jesus' body and blood
+• Invitation to participate in the sacrament, regardless of location
+• Precautions for COVID-19 during distribution of the elements
+• Reflection on God's presence and power in all things
+• Prayer and blessing at the end of the service
+• Heavenly banquet in the eternal kingdom to come
+• Living and working to God's praise and glory
+• God's presence and protection
+• Overcoming fear and seeing change
+• The power of God's name in darkness and chaos
+• Holy Spirit's guidance and awakening the church
+• Believing in the coming change and light
+• Use of names as a source of power
+• Influence and authority held by certain individuals
+• Desire for boundaries or limits in relationships

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+• Existence of two separate creation accounts in Genesis
+• Distinctions between the "first story" (Genesis 1:1-2:3) and the "second story" (Genesis 2:4-25)
+• Characteristics of the first story, including its impersonal nature and use of the title "Elohim"
+• Differences in purpose and tone between the two creation accounts
+• The first story in Genesis focuses on God's creation of the world and humanity, while the second story emphasizes human relationships.
+• Key differences between the two stories include God's actions on days three and six, as well as the order of creation.
+• The writer acknowledges the potential difficulties with Adam naming all living creatures in 24 hours, but suggests this is a matter of interpretation.
+• Genesis was written for an ancient audience and its cultural context should be taken into account when understanding its message.
+• Moses, who wrote the first five books of the Bible, would have been familiar with Egyptian creation stories and incorporated elements from other cultures to create his own narrative.
+• Genesis 1 has Egyptian creation story similarities
+• Genesis 2 has Babylonian creation story similarities
+• Polemical use of language to replace false ideas with God's word
+• Genesis teaches that God is wholly other, eternal, and creator of all
+• Contrast between Genesis and other ancient creation stories on God's nature and origins
+• God is a creator and sustainer of all things.
+• The Egyptian and Babylonian creation stories have flaws, portraying creation as accidental or purposeless.
+• In contrast, God's creation story in Genesis emphasizes intentionality, beauty, and care.
+• God created humans in his image, unlike the Egyptian and Babylonian gods who viewed humans as inferior or an afterthought.
+• The concept of human dominion over earth in Genesis
+• Comparison to other creation stories where humans are not supposed to exist or have lesser roles
+• God's cultural mandate for humans as stated in Genesis
+• The consequences of disobeying God, including death
+• Distinction between Genesis and other creation stories as a polemic
+• Characteristics of the one true God in contrast to other gods
+• Genesis 1 and 2 describe two creation stories that counter the lies told about God
+• The first story describes a beautiful, orderly creation by God's word
+• The second story tells of Adam and Eve in paradise, made to care for the earth and rule with God
+• These themes continue throughout the Old Testament, with God ruling in power and love
+• Jesus is the culmination of these stories, as he rules in God's name and redeems the world
+• Colossians 1 describes Jesus as the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation, through whom all things were created
+• The new creation in Christ and being made new through faith
+• Resurrection with Christ in the new creation
+• Jesus as creator of all things, including humans
+• Purpose of Genesis 1 and 2: to show who created the universe (Yahweh Elohim)
+• Importance of worshiping God throughout the week
+• Singing hymns of praise, specifically "God of Wonders"
+• Prayer and blessings from God
+• Praise to God through music, nations, and creation
+• Worship of Jesus as the risen and exalted son
+• Encouragement to praise God with heart and voice in this generation
+• Expression of gratitude to God for salvation and light

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+[3094.46 --> 3095.46]  esse chiff astonhave 62, E size.
+[3095.46 --> 3105.50]  were both naked, and they felt no shame. Okay. The first question was, are there two separate
+[3105.50 --> 3112.42]  creation accounts? In Genesis, the first story being Genesis 1 to 2 verse 3, and Genesis 2 verses
+[3112.42 --> 3120.52]  4 to 25. The answer to this question is simply yes. But for future convenience, I'm going to
+[3120.52 --> 3123.50]  refer to the first story as the first story, and the second story as the second story, because
+[3123.50 --> 3130.64]  saying that whole thing is a lot for convenience. So, okay. When we read the stories, though, there
+[3130.64 --> 3135.88]  are ways you can tell they're different and written for different purposes. There are four things. For
+[3135.88 --> 3142.06]  the first example, the first story only describes God with the name God, Elohim, meaning God in English.
+[3142.48 --> 3148.42]  This is a title. It's not a name. That's because the first story is not personal. The first story is
+[3148.42 --> 3155.46]  about God making the earth. The second story uses his personal name, Yahweh Elohim, meaning the Lord
+[3155.46 --> 3160.44]  God. This is the same name God gives to Moses at the burning bush as his covenant name.
+[3162.46 --> 3166.50]  Second thing is, in the first story, God is described as creating the whole habitable world
+[3166.50 --> 3171.42]  out of nothing. It is all structured and was described as a seven-day week. He creates for
+[3171.42 --> 3177.38]  six, rests on the seventh, and each day starts with, and God said, and ends with the day of the week.
+[3179.46 --> 3184.46]  The third thing is that the first story is theocentric, meaning it's God-centered. God
+[3184.46 --> 3190.20]  existed before all. God created all. Humanity is made in God's image. God rests. It's about God's
+[3190.20 --> 3196.86]  power, God's plan, and God's purpose. The second story is anthropocentric. Though it has all those
+[3196.86 --> 3204.00]  things that the first story has, it's more focused on humanity, what Adam and Eve do, who they are.
+[3204.34 --> 3208.46]  In the second story, they have names, whereas in the first story, they're just man and woman.
+[3210.38 --> 3215.00]  The last thing is that in Genesis chapter 1, it's a whole picture without much detail,
+[3215.76 --> 3220.82]  and in Genesis 2, it's very detailed about one specific creation that God has a relationship with.
+[3220.82 --> 3227.16]  Now, though those differences are important, I think the writer of this question was thinking
+[3227.16 --> 3233.74]  about some other differences, specifically where the two stories don't line up. They seemingly don't
+[3233.74 --> 3240.32]  agree on some of the details. There are two ways that they don't agree. First is that in Genesis 1,
+[3240.50 --> 3247.42]  God makes all the plant life on day three, and all the humans on day six, and it specifies that the
+[3247.42 --> 3252.56]  plants were spoken into being. They came out of the ground. God confirms it with his blessing,
+[3253.26 --> 3260.74]  and then the third day ends, and then God makes man on day six. But in Genesis 2, God makes Adam,
+[3260.86 --> 3268.54]  and it specifies that the plants had not sprung up yet. Only after making Adam does God specify making
+[3268.54 --> 3277.40]  the plants in chapter 2. This is a problem because the order's wrong. The second problem is that in
+[3277.40 --> 3283.32]  Genesis 1, God makes both man and woman on day six, as well as all the animals. In Genesis 2,
+[3283.44 --> 3290.16]  God makes Adam, then puts him in the garden, then gets him to name every creature, and then when none
+[3290.16 --> 3300.08]  of them are seen as a helper, God makes Eve. Now, why is this a problem? Well, as of now, there are 1.2
+[3300.08 --> 3306.58]  million species on planet Earth, with seven million more yet to be discovered. And Adam is stated to
+[3306.58 --> 3313.30]  have named every living creature. Now, in chapter 2, verse 19, it specifies birds of the sky and beasts
+[3313.30 --> 3321.04]  of the field, but even if you do the reduction, it's 16,000 species and more still yet to be discovered.
+[3322.32 --> 3328.00]  Now, for a man who didn't exist five minutes ago, who just learned how to talk and is experiencing the
+[3328.00 --> 3335.18]  whole world for the first time, even for us, that's quite the feat in 24 hours.
+[3336.76 --> 3340.82]  Now, if this idea of Genesis 1 and 2 being two stories makes you feel uncomfortable,
+[3341.56 --> 3348.30]  that's okay. If it raises questions in you, that's good. That's what this sermon series is about.
+[3349.38 --> 3352.16]  The church is here as a place where you can grow in your understanding of the Word,
+[3352.16 --> 3358.86]  ask questions, continue to discuss these questions in good faith and love. That's discipleship.
+[3360.04 --> 3365.64]  We have to acknowledge what Scripture is, what the story's purpose is, and what its purpose isn't.
+[3366.40 --> 3371.80]  Genesis 1 and 2 were written in a very specific time period to a very specific culture,
+[3372.34 --> 3377.26]  and it's different from us today. We don't write in the styles that they write.
+[3377.26 --> 3381.98]  And since we were not the ones Genesis was written to, though it was written for us,
+[3382.44 --> 3387.46]  we have to learn the way it was written. We have to learn about the people it was written to and
+[3387.46 --> 3393.98]  their history and the place that they would be in to receive such a story. As we know, these people
+[3393.98 --> 3400.00]  that received the story are the Israelites. They received this story 3,000 years ago. The Israelites
+[3400.00 --> 3404.76]  were all descended from the well-known man Abraham. Abraham had a son named Isaac, who had a son named Jacob,
+[3404.76 --> 3413.02]  who had 12 sons, and then who lived in Egypt for 400 years as slaves. Abraham was from a city called Ur,
+[3413.98 --> 3419.40]  which in this time would have been part of the old Sumerian Empire. In Sumer, the religious capital
+[3419.40 --> 3423.90]  was the famed city Babylon. This is the same city that would be led by Nebuchadnezzar, who would destroy
+[3423.90 --> 3432.94]  Israel and bring them into exile. This was Abraham's world. He was bathed in the Babylonian creation
+[3432.94 --> 3439.02]  stories. Abraham and Sarah and all his servants were raised with it. That story is called the Enuma
+[3439.02 --> 3445.18]  Elish, the one mentioned in the question. The Israelites themselves, after being slaves for 400
+[3445.18 --> 3449.70]  years, would start to get to know the stories of their captors. The Israelites would have known the
+[3449.70 --> 3455.44]  Egyptian creation stories well, but that's just not it. Moses, the one who wrote the first five books
+[3455.44 --> 3460.88]  of the Bible, the one that God got to lead the Israelites and free them from Egypt, he was raised as an
+[3460.88 --> 3465.76]  Egyptian royal family member. He would have learned their culture, their philosophy, and their religion
+[3465.76 --> 3471.64]  and known it very well for most of his life. This is the setting where Israel receives the biblical creation
+[3471.64 --> 3478.00]  story. Right after they're freed from slavery, they experience the tent plagues, the pillar of fire, and the
+[3478.00 --> 3484.40]  splitting of the Red Sea. This is where they receive it. The Israelites are cultural descendants of Babylon
+[3484.40 --> 3491.12]  Babylon and Egypt. So when we find similarities in their creation stories, we shouldn't find this
+[3491.12 --> 3498.60]  surprising. And this is because Genesis, among the many things that it is, it is written as a polemic.
+[3499.60 --> 3506.56]  A polemic is a writing style used to undermine or attack religious or political beliefs. Genesis 1 and 2
+[3506.56 --> 3510.82]  are a direct attack on the beliefs and understandings that have been drilled into the Israelite head
+[3510.82 --> 3517.60]  for 400 years. God is trying to unlearn the Israelites all the horrible things that they've learned and
+[3517.60 --> 3523.24]  replace them, replace all the wrong and false ideas the culture has embedded in them and give them his
+[3523.24 --> 3529.74]  word instead. Part of the way a polemic does this is by using the language of the thing it's attacking.
+[3531.10 --> 3540.18]  So here we dive deep into some history stuff, so get ready. For example, Genesis 1 is very Egyptian in style.
+[3540.82 --> 3545.24]  It is strikingly similar to the creation story known as the Ogdod, which reads like this.
+[3547.74 --> 3553.12]  The cosmos was undifferentiated formlessness. Darkness was on the surface of the primordial watery deep.
+[3553.78 --> 3556.16]  The divine wind of a tomb was over the primeval waters.
+[3557.94 --> 3563.30]  Now, way less poetic than the biblical story, but you can notice the similarities.
+[3564.68 --> 3568.58]  Well, it doesn't stop there. Another one of the Egyptian creation stories known as the Memphis story
+[3568.58 --> 3571.36]  follows the same order of creation as Genesis 1.
+[3572.50 --> 3574.24]  There is an in-the-beginning phrase,
+[3575.00 --> 3576.96]  then a lifeless, chaotic, watery ocean.
+[3577.80 --> 3579.64]  A tomb, the divine wind, is over the deep.
+[3580.46 --> 3582.16]  Pata speaks and light appears.
+[3583.10 --> 3585.06]  Waters are separated and the sky is created.
+[3585.56 --> 3587.84]  The dry ground appears, being separated from the waters.
+[3588.56 --> 3591.24]  The sun is made, this time in the image of Ra,
+[3591.44 --> 3592.36]  and set to rule the day.
+[3592.36 --> 3596.22]  The earth sprouts vegetation, animals, fish, birds, and reptiles.
+[3596.94 --> 3599.02]  The idols are made in the image of the gods,
+[3599.40 --> 3601.30]  and Pata rests in satisfaction of his creation.
+[3604.90 --> 3605.72]  Uncanny, isn't it?
+[3606.74 --> 3609.70]  Now, jumping to Genesis 2, which is much more Babylonian in style.
+[3610.20 --> 3612.42]  I know, we're getting really in the weeds right here,
+[3612.68 --> 3614.02]  but it's necessary.
+[3614.84 --> 3617.48]  So, the Babylonian story goes like this.
+[3617.82 --> 3619.88]  The Enumalish, the one I told you you would know about.
+[3619.88 --> 3622.42]  When the heavens above did not exist,
+[3622.48 --> 3623.98]  and the earth beneath had not come into being,
+[3624.50 --> 3627.08]  there was Apsu, the first in order, their begetter,
+[3627.30 --> 3629.12]  and Demiurge Tiamat, who gave birth to them all.
+[3629.46 --> 3630.80]  They had mingled their waters together
+[3630.80 --> 3632.32]  before Meadowland had coalesced,
+[3632.34 --> 3634.48]  and Reedbed was yet to be found.
+[3635.20 --> 3636.96]  When not one of the gods had been formed
+[3636.96 --> 3637.84]  or had come into being,
+[3638.26 --> 3639.68]  when no destinies had been decreed,
+[3639.80 --> 3641.10]  the gods were created within them.
+[3641.40 --> 3644.58]  Lahamu and Lahamu were formed and came into being.
+[3645.24 --> 3647.96]  This sounds very similar to Genesis 2, 5-7.
+[3647.96 --> 3651.58]  When no bush of the field was yet in the land,
+[3651.62 --> 3653.64]  and no small plant of the field had yet sprung up.
+[3654.46 --> 3656.38]  The Lord God had not caused it to rain on the land,
+[3656.80 --> 3658.24]  and there was no man to work the ground.
+[3658.52 --> 3659.94]  And a mist was going up from the land
+[3659.94 --> 3662.24]  that was watering the whole face of the ground.
+[3662.68 --> 3664.00]  Then the Lord God formed the man
+[3664.00 --> 3664.84]  from the dust of the ground
+[3664.84 --> 3666.54]  and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life.
+[3667.46 --> 3668.56]  The man became a living creature.
+[3670.08 --> 3672.58]  Now, if you're like me, you're a history nut,
+[3673.22 --> 3675.94]  then you would love the similarities in this.
+[3675.94 --> 3677.32]  They're very cool.
+[3677.80 --> 3679.44]  But this is a polemic,
+[3679.54 --> 3681.02]  so it's in the differences that matter.
+[3682.20 --> 3683.26]  It's in the differences that we see
+[3683.26 --> 3685.10]  what Genesis is teaching us about God
+[3685.10 --> 3686.82]  and mankind and the creation
+[3686.82 --> 3688.02]  and our relationship with God,
+[3688.74 --> 3690.44]  our relationship with each other and the world.
+[3691.28 --> 3693.56]  So if you checked out before the history section,
+[3693.80 --> 3695.78]  because you get bored with this stuff,
+[3696.00 --> 3697.06]  now's the time to jump back in
+[3697.06 --> 3697.74]  because here's the lesson.
+[3699.64 --> 3702.02]  There are six things that Genesis is teaching us
+[3702.02 --> 3702.72]  as a polemic.
+[3702.72 --> 3705.86]  The first is that God is wholly other,
+[3706.58 --> 3708.12]  eternal, and the creator of all.
+[3709.18 --> 3710.44]  In the Egyptian story,
+[3711.52 --> 3713.30]  the God named a tomb creates himself
+[3713.30 --> 3714.34]  from the primordial deep.
+[3715.20 --> 3717.18]  But in Genesis, God doesn't have a beginning.
+[3717.98 --> 3719.58]  The very first verse of the Bible
+[3719.58 --> 3721.70]  assumes that God has always existed.
+[3722.42 --> 3723.70]  In the beginning, God.
+[3724.64 --> 3727.06]  Other parts of the scripture state the same.
+[3727.32 --> 3728.34]  Revelation 1.8,
+[3728.72 --> 3730.48]  who is, who was, and who is to come.
+[3731.12 --> 3733.44]  Psalm 90, verse 2, from the beginning.
+[3734.40 --> 3735.70]  From everlasting to everlasting,
+[3735.90 --> 3736.60]  you are God.
+[3737.28 --> 3738.46]  Colossians 1.17,
+[3738.96 --> 3740.00]  he is before all things,
+[3740.04 --> 3741.50]  and in him all things hold together.
+[3742.42 --> 3743.84]  God is wholly other.
+[3745.38 --> 3747.06]  The second thing is that God created
+[3747.06 --> 3748.26]  everything that exists,
+[3748.62 --> 3750.60]  has ever existed or will ever exist.
+[3751.26 --> 3753.26]  Nothing that exists was not made by him.
+[3754.48 --> 3756.80]  The Egyptian story has a tomb create the world,
+[3756.80 --> 3759.26]  but the deep is there before him,
+[3759.84 --> 3762.72]  and he makes himself from nothing.
+[3762.98 --> 3764.14]  I don't know how you do that.
+[3764.60 --> 3765.84]  I don't know who came up with that idea
+[3765.84 --> 3766.54]  in their story,
+[3766.68 --> 3768.70]  but in Genesis,
+[3768.92 --> 3771.02]  God creates everything by simply saying,
+[3771.30 --> 3771.86]  let there be.
+[3772.86 --> 3773.58]  And it was so.
+[3773.90 --> 3775.14]  No effort required.
+[3776.14 --> 3776.96]  Hebrews 11.3,
+[3777.04 --> 3778.32]  by faith we understand that the universe
+[3778.32 --> 3779.60]  was created by the word of God,
+[3780.16 --> 3781.98]  so that that, what is seen,
+[3782.06 --> 3784.50]  was not made out of things that are visible.
+[3784.50 --> 3786.60]  Psalm 33, verse 6,
+[3786.74 --> 3787.48]  by the word of the Lord,
+[3787.58 --> 3788.44]  the heavens were made,
+[3789.10 --> 3789.96]  and by his mouth,
+[3790.34 --> 3791.22]  by the breath of his mouth,
+[3791.34 --> 3792.02]  all their hosts.
+[3792.84 --> 3794.54]  God created everything.
+[3796.86 --> 3798.90]  Third, when God created the world,
+[3799.24 --> 3800.16]  he said it was good.
+[3801.58 --> 3802.58]  When the Egyptian god,
+[3802.64 --> 3803.54]  a tomb made the world,
+[3804.36 --> 3806.04]  it was because he needed a place to stand on.
+[3807.46 --> 3809.42]  When the Babylonian god made the animals,
+[3810.12 --> 3811.16]  it was because they were hungry.
+[3812.32 --> 3813.42]  A tomb made humans,
+[3813.42 --> 3814.16]  by accident,
+[3814.26 --> 3814.78]  when he cried,
+[3814.88 --> 3816.68]  and his tears mingled in the dust of the earth.
+[3817.46 --> 3819.34]  And Marduk made humans for slave labor,
+[3819.44 --> 3820.78]  so that they didn't have to work anymore.
+[3823.00 --> 3825.30]  The world of the Egyptians and the Babylonians
+[3825.30 --> 3826.82]  is tragic, horrifying,
+[3827.12 --> 3827.66]  purposeless,
+[3828.02 --> 3828.80]  and evil.
+[3829.74 --> 3831.32]  But when God makes the world,
+[3832.14 --> 3833.36]  he makes it with purpose,
+[3833.62 --> 3834.18]  with meaning,
+[3834.44 --> 3834.96]  intention,
+[3835.60 --> 3835.92]  beauty,
+[3836.14 --> 3836.68]  and care.
+[3837.22 --> 3838.90]  He makes man with his hands,
+[3839.16 --> 3841.32]  and breathes his life into them intentionally.
+[3841.32 --> 3842.82]  Gives them work,
+[3842.92 --> 3845.10]  so that they can partake in what God's doing on the earth.
+[3845.68 --> 3846.74]  He makes a garden,
+[3846.94 --> 3848.98]  puts food in it for the people and the animals.
+[3849.46 --> 3851.32]  He ends every day with the statement,
+[3851.56 --> 3852.38]  and it was good,
+[3852.74 --> 3854.12]  and blesses his creation,
+[3854.28 --> 3854.92]  and enjoys it,
+[3855.02 --> 3855.92]  and dwells in it.
+[3856.84 --> 3857.98]  God said it was good.
+[3859.86 --> 3860.80]  The fourth thing
+[3860.80 --> 3862.90]  is that God created man in his image.
+[3862.90 --> 3865.16]  As stated before,
+[3865.28 --> 3867.40]  the Egyptian gods accidentally created humans,
+[3867.90 --> 3869.38]  but the Babylonian gods,
+[3869.52 --> 3870.60]  after defeating the evil,
+[3870.70 --> 3871.06]  demonic,
+[3871.22 --> 3871.52]  tyrant,
+[3871.64 --> 3871.86]  villain,
+[3872.02 --> 3872.40]  Kingu,
+[3873.48 --> 3875.48]  Marduk makes the humans out of his corpse,
+[3875.96 --> 3877.20]  so that they don't have to labor.
+[3879.16 --> 3880.38]  Humans are an afterthought.
+[3882.02 --> 3883.48]  But Yahweh Elohim
+[3883.48 --> 3885.92]  is cutting deep at these stories,
+[3886.04 --> 3888.08]  and he says something extremely different.
+[3888.92 --> 3890.04]  Genesis 1, 27,
+[3890.04 --> 3892.18]  God created men in his image.
+[3892.74 --> 3893.30]  In the image of God,
+[3893.36 --> 3893.96]  he created him.
+[3894.04 --> 3894.68]  Male and female,
+[3894.82 --> 3895.64]  he created them.
+[3896.32 --> 3897.28]  Genesis 2, 7,
+[3897.82 --> 3899.86]  Then the Lord God formed the man of the dust
+[3899.86 --> 3900.38]  from the ground
+[3900.38 --> 3902.22]  and breathed into his nostrils
+[3902.22 --> 3903.30]  the breath of life.
+[3904.74 --> 3905.72]  The breath of life there
+[3905.72 --> 3906.44]  is the same word
+[3906.44 --> 3907.38]  as the spirit or the wind
+[3907.38 --> 3908.22]  that's over the deep.
+[3909.84 --> 3910.86]  Genesis 5, 1,
+[3911.00 --> 3912.58]  This is the book of the generations of Adam.
+[3913.02 --> 3913.54]  In this day,
+[3913.62 --> 3914.64]  when God created man,
+[3914.76 --> 3916.40]  he made them in the image of God.
+[3917.28 --> 3918.22]  James 3, 9,
+[3918.48 --> 3919.92]  With it we bless the Lord our Father
+[3919.92 --> 3921.06]  and with it we curse men
+[3921.06 --> 3922.06]  who have been made
+[3922.06 --> 3923.40]  in the likeness of God.
+[3924.00 --> 3925.68]  God made men in his image.
+[3927.38 --> 3928.08]  The fifth thing
+[3928.08 --> 3929.38]  is that God created us
+[3929.38 --> 3930.66]  to have dominion over the earth.
+[3931.76 --> 3933.04]  In the other creation stories,
+[3933.18 --> 3933.84]  we humans are either
+[3933.84 --> 3935.00]  not supposed to exist,
+[3935.52 --> 3936.38]  or they made us
+[3936.38 --> 3937.64]  just to cook the gods' food
+[3937.64 --> 3938.78]  and to make them a cool house.
+[3940.22 --> 3941.08]  But in Genesis,
+[3941.74 --> 3943.42]  God gives us the cultural mandate
+[3943.42 --> 3944.34]  that Chris talked about
+[3944.34 --> 3945.10]  the other week.
+[3946.04 --> 3946.80]  And God blessed them
+[3946.80 --> 3947.60]  and God said to them,
+[3947.72 --> 3948.64]  Be fruitful and multiply
+[3948.64 --> 3949.62]  and fill the earth
+[3949.62 --> 3950.16]  and subdue it
+[3950.16 --> 3950.84]  and have dominion
+[3950.84 --> 3952.10]  over the fish of the sea
+[3952.10 --> 3953.10]  and over the birds of the heavens
+[3953.10 --> 3954.16]  and over every living thing
+[3954.16 --> 3954.98]  that moves on the ground.
+[3956.06 --> 3957.04]  Genesis 2, 15,
+[3957.16 --> 3958.10]  The Lord God took the man
+[3958.10 --> 3958.88]  and put him in the garden
+[3958.88 --> 3960.34]  to work it and keep it.
+[3961.38 --> 3963.16]  God made us to enjoy his creation
+[3963.16 --> 3964.82]  and to join with him
+[3964.82 --> 3966.10]  in the work of maintaining it.
+[3966.98 --> 3967.70]  God created us
+[3967.70 --> 3968.88]  to have dominion over the earth.
+[3970.38 --> 3970.74]  Lastly,
+[3971.30 --> 3972.18]  and most depressingly,
+[3972.80 --> 3973.62]  disobeying God
+[3973.62 --> 3974.80]  leads to death.
+[3976.04 --> 3977.04]  In the other stories,
+[3977.16 --> 3977.96]  death was just a part
+[3977.96 --> 3979.22]  of the design
+[3979.22 --> 3980.46]  or the lack thereof.
+[3981.42 --> 3982.06]  But in Genesis,
+[3982.34 --> 3983.40]  God states that death
+[3983.40 --> 3984.98]  is a result of disobeying him.
+[3985.94 --> 3986.38]  You shall eat
+[3986.38 --> 3987.26]  of every tree of the garden,
+[3987.78 --> 3988.40]  but if the tree
+[3988.40 --> 3988.84]  of the knowledge
+[3988.84 --> 3989.46]  of good and evil,
+[3989.68 --> 3990.42]  you shall not eat,
+[3990.50 --> 3991.06]  for on that day
+[3991.06 --> 3991.70]  you shall die.
+[3993.28 --> 3994.06]  Everything wrong
+[3994.06 --> 3994.58]  with this world
+[3994.58 --> 3995.26]  is our fault,
+[3995.64 --> 3996.36]  not God's.
+[3997.66 --> 3998.26]  Disobeying God
+[3998.26 --> 3998.94]  leads to death.
+[4000.48 --> 4001.36]  Now, don't get me wrong
+[4001.36 --> 4002.62]  in all that I've said today.
+[4003.58 --> 4004.94]  These stories are not equal.
+[4005.84 --> 4006.46]  God isn't just,
+[4006.66 --> 4007.94]  Genesis isn't just
+[4007.94 --> 4008.82]  another creation story
+[4008.82 --> 4009.90]  amongst creation stories.
+[4010.28 --> 4011.04]  On the contrary,
+[4011.50 --> 4012.86]  it's God's creation story.
+[4013.62 --> 4014.28]  As a polemic,
+[4014.42 --> 4015.66]  Genesis is teaching us
+[4015.66 --> 4016.70]  and the Israelites
+[4016.70 --> 4017.76]  about God,
+[4018.16 --> 4018.58]  ourselves,
+[4018.74 --> 4019.44]  and our relationship
+[4019.44 --> 4019.90]  with him.
+[4020.92 --> 4021.80]  But it was written
+[4021.80 --> 4022.50]  to the Israelites
+[4022.50 --> 4023.52]  using the writing styles
+[4023.52 --> 4024.38]  of their time.
+[4025.56 --> 4026.50]  God is using the polemic
+[4026.50 --> 4027.32]  because the differences
+[4027.32 --> 4028.12]  show how different
+[4028.12 --> 4029.60]  he is from the other gods.
+[4029.60 --> 4031.38]  Not just different,
+[4031.52 --> 4032.20]  but how much greater
+[4032.20 --> 4032.76]  he is.
+[4033.42 --> 4033.80]  After all,
+[4033.90 --> 4035.16]  he's the one true God,
+[4035.42 --> 4036.46]  the Most High God,
+[4036.54 --> 4037.48]  the Almighty God,
+[4037.86 --> 4038.48]  the name above
+[4038.48 --> 4039.46]  all other names,
+[4039.58 --> 4040.28]  the Lord of Lords,
+[4040.44 --> 4041.12]  the King of Kings,
+[4041.26 --> 4042.12]  the God of Gods.
+[4042.68 --> 4043.68]  There is no God like him.
+[4043.74 --> 4044.60]  He has no equal.
+[4045.12 --> 4046.20]  He has always existed
+[4046.20 --> 4047.32]  and always will exist.
+[4047.96 --> 4048.80]  He is omnipotent,
+[4048.90 --> 4049.30]  omniscient,
+[4049.42 --> 4049.92]  omnipresent.
+[4050.46 --> 4051.12]  He is the creator
+[4051.12 --> 4052.58]  and redeemer of creation.
+[4053.22 --> 4053.98]  He is Yahweh,
+[4054.34 --> 4054.76]  Elohim.
+[4056.76 --> 4057.62]  Genesis 1 and 2
+[4057.62 --> 4058.68]  are two creation stories
+[4058.68 --> 4059.66]  that work together
+[4059.66 --> 4061.46]  to counter the lies
+[4061.46 --> 4062.12]  that the Israelites
+[4062.12 --> 4063.50]  and us were ever told
+[4063.50 --> 4064.04]  about God.
+[4065.36 --> 4066.34]  The first story
+[4066.34 --> 4067.00]  is a beautiful,
+[4067.26 --> 4068.10]  orderly, poetic,
+[4068.62 --> 4069.70]  a story about a God
+[4069.70 --> 4071.56]  so incomprehensibly great
+[4071.56 --> 4073.90]  that he can create
+[4073.90 --> 4074.54]  the world
+[4074.54 --> 4076.94]  by merely saying words.
+[4078.44 --> 4078.92]  Yet,
+[4079.02 --> 4079.52]  when he makes
+[4079.52 --> 4080.46]  his final creation,
+[4080.62 --> 4081.10]  men and women,
+[4081.56 --> 4082.16]  he makes them
+[4082.16 --> 4083.08]  with his hands
+[4083.08 --> 4084.46]  and designs them
+[4084.46 --> 4085.40]  after himself.
+[4087.22 --> 4088.22]  The second story
+[4088.22 --> 4089.18]  is about Adam and Eve
+[4089.18 --> 4090.44]  who live in a paradise
+[4090.44 --> 4091.88]  and are in a perfect relationship
+[4091.88 --> 4092.60]  with their loving God
+[4092.60 --> 4093.22]  and with each other.
+[4093.74 --> 4094.80]  They were made for him
+[4094.80 --> 4095.92]  and for each other.
+[4097.08 --> 4097.78]  We learn that humans
+[4097.78 --> 4098.60]  were made to take care
+[4098.60 --> 4098.96]  of the earth
+[4098.96 --> 4100.66]  and given the responsibility
+[4100.66 --> 4102.24]  to rule in God's name
+[4102.24 --> 4102.72]  with him.
+[4104.66 --> 4105.50]  These stories
+[4105.50 --> 4106.76]  don't end in Genesis.
+[4109.36 --> 4110.30]  They carry throughout
+[4110.30 --> 4111.16]  the whole Old Testament.
+[4111.16 --> 4112.58]  God continues to rule
+[4112.58 --> 4113.82]  in his power and love.
+[4114.32 --> 4115.22]  He continues to dwell
+[4115.22 --> 4115.86]  with his people
+[4115.86 --> 4116.82]  and works to make
+[4116.82 --> 4117.94]  the world very good.
+[4118.96 --> 4119.76]  Parallel to this,
+[4119.84 --> 4120.40]  there is a story
+[4120.40 --> 4121.18]  of a human ruler
+[4121.18 --> 4122.56]  who will rule in God's name
+[4122.56 --> 4123.56]  and do the work
+[4123.56 --> 4124.30]  that God gives him
+[4124.30 --> 4124.96]  in full obedience.
+[4126.18 --> 4127.24]  In the Gospels,
+[4127.34 --> 4128.34]  those two stories meet.
+[4129.30 --> 4130.12]  The Almighty God
+[4130.12 --> 4131.64]  loves the humanity
+[4131.64 --> 4132.42]  that he created
+[4132.42 --> 4133.86]  in his image so much
+[4133.86 --> 4135.36]  that he comes down
+[4135.36 --> 4136.08]  and becomes one.
+[4136.90 --> 4138.40]  And he rules in God's name
+[4138.40 --> 4139.04]  and does the work
+[4139.04 --> 4140.12]  that his Father gives him.
+[4141.16 --> 4144.36]  Jesus, as we know,
+[4144.56 --> 4146.32]  is our God made flesh.
+[4147.24 --> 4148.32]  He came as a human baby,
+[4148.56 --> 4149.38]  lived a human life
+[4149.38 --> 4150.12]  with all its struggles
+[4150.12 --> 4151.16]  and pains and joys,
+[4151.50 --> 4153.30]  and died on the cross
+[4153.30 --> 4154.20]  and took the sin
+[4154.20 --> 4154.88]  from the world
+[4154.88 --> 4156.12]  so that he could redeem it.
+[4158.16 --> 4160.04]  Colossians 1, 15-17
+[4160.04 --> 4161.46]  writes this beautiful capstone
+[4161.46 --> 4162.38]  on the whole topic
+[4162.38 --> 4163.00]  of creation.
+[4163.00 --> 4165.66]  He is the image
+[4165.66 --> 4166.74]  of the invisible God,
+[4167.26 --> 4168.94]  the firstborn of all creation.
+[4169.66 --> 4170.30]  For by him,
+[4170.34 --> 4171.22]  all things were created
+[4171.22 --> 4172.34]  in the heavens and on earth,
+[4172.68 --> 4173.56]  visible or invisible,
+[4173.72 --> 4174.94]  whether thrones or dominions
+[4174.94 --> 4176.36]  or rulers or authorities.
+[4176.64 --> 4177.70]  All things were created
+[4177.70 --> 4178.68]  through him and for him.
+[4179.40 --> 4180.56]  And he is before all things
+[4180.56 --> 4180.98]  and in him,
+[4181.06 --> 4181.94]  all things hold together.
+[4182.76 --> 4183.70]  So the first answer
+[4183.70 --> 4185.44]  to Eric's question
+[4185.44 --> 4188.08]  about when was the world created,
+[4188.58 --> 4190.24]  Jesus was the correct answer.
+[4190.24 --> 4191.82]  The Bible testifies to it.
+[4192.22 --> 4192.96]  So whoever said that,
+[4193.16 --> 4193.58]  great job.
+[4194.22 --> 4194.54]  There you go.
+[4195.88 --> 4196.68]  Jesus is here
+[4196.68 --> 4197.66]  because he's not done
+[4197.66 --> 4198.50]  with his creation.
+[4199.70 --> 4200.12]  In fact,
+[4200.18 --> 4201.82]  because we messed it up so bad,
+[4202.24 --> 4203.52]  God is recreating it.
+[4204.42 --> 4205.50]  That's some damage.
+[4206.66 --> 4206.90]  Therefore,
+[4207.04 --> 4208.14]  if anyone is in Christ,
+[4208.46 --> 4209.48]  he is a new creation.
+[4210.16 --> 4211.28]  The old has passed away
+[4211.28 --> 4211.72]  and behold,
+[4211.80 --> 4212.64]  the new has come.
+[4213.54 --> 4215.06]  We have died in our sins
+[4215.06 --> 4216.04]  and have been made new.
+[4216.84 --> 4217.76]  And when we die,
+[4217.86 --> 4219.00]  we're resurrected with Christ
+[4219.00 --> 4220.12]  in the new creation.
+[4220.56 --> 4221.14]  The new heavens
+[4221.14 --> 4221.92]  and the new earth.
+[4223.26 --> 4224.42]  The very same Jesus
+[4224.42 --> 4225.32]  that died on the cross
+[4225.32 --> 4226.40]  and rose on the third day.
+[4226.98 --> 4228.16]  That Jesus was present
+[4228.16 --> 4228.86]  in making you
+[4228.86 --> 4229.94]  before he saved you.
+[4230.76 --> 4232.38]  He designed every rock and tree,
+[4232.60 --> 4233.56]  bird and fish,
+[4233.76 --> 4234.72]  barren palatopos.
+[4236.62 --> 4237.96]  This was all made for him.
+[4239.08 --> 4240.26]  We were made for him.
+[4241.86 --> 4242.60]  Now again,
+[4242.68 --> 4244.04]  he is preparing a place for us
+[4244.04 --> 4245.58]  with his immense power
+[4245.58 --> 4246.38]  and he is creating
+[4246.38 --> 4247.62]  this time a city
+[4247.62 --> 4250.06]  in which we will dwell with him
+[4250.06 --> 4251.86]  and it will be very good.
+[4254.16 --> 4254.88]  So if you noticed,
+[4254.94 --> 4255.66]  I didn't talk about
+[4255.66 --> 4256.64]  how old the earth is
+[4256.64 --> 4257.50]  this whole time.
+[4257.84 --> 4258.78]  And there's a reason for that.
+[4259.58 --> 4260.76]  When we get into arguments
+[4260.76 --> 4262.20]  about how old the earth is,
+[4262.32 --> 4263.42]  6,000 years
+[4263.42 --> 4264.48]  or 14 billion
+[4264.48 --> 4266.42]  or how it was made,
+[4266.86 --> 4267.62]  we lose sight
+[4267.62 --> 4268.54]  of the real reason
+[4268.54 --> 4269.42]  Genesis 1 and 2
+[4269.42 --> 4269.82]  were written.
+[4270.48 --> 4271.14]  It's not about
+[4271.14 --> 4272.36]  the age of some rocks.
+[4272.86 --> 4274.22]  It's about who made them.
+[4274.22 --> 4276.68]  It's about Yahweh Elohim.
+[4279.28 --> 4279.84]  Let's pray.
+[4285.90 --> 4286.80]  Lord, thank you
+[4286.80 --> 4287.62]  for this day.
+[4288.28 --> 4289.52]  Thank you for this wonderful weather.
+[4290.76 --> 4291.58]  Thank you for this day
+[4291.58 --> 4292.44]  you have made it.
+[4292.86 --> 4293.64]  Help us rejoice
+[4293.64 --> 4295.84]  and be glad in it.
+[4297.12 --> 4297.92]  Lord, I pray that
+[4297.92 --> 4298.72]  as they go off
+[4298.72 --> 4299.52]  from here
+[4299.52 --> 4300.66]  that we would all
+[4300.66 --> 4301.82]  continue to worship you
+[4301.82 --> 4302.44]  throughout the week
+[4302.44 --> 4304.66]  and that you would be with us
+[4304.66 --> 4305.30]  and that your spirit
+[4305.30 --> 4306.18]  would be with us
+[4306.18 --> 4308.12]  and that we would glorify you
+[4308.12 --> 4308.66]  in all that we do.
+[4309.52 --> 4309.72]  Amen.
+[4316.36 --> 4317.44]  Please stand with us
+[4317.44 --> 4318.08]  as we sing
+[4318.08 --> 4318.94]  God of Wonders.
+[4318.94 --> 4319.14]  God of Wonders.
+[4319.14 --> 4345.18]  Lord of all creation
+[4345.18 --> 4350.38]  God of Wonders.
+[4372.92 --> 4375.16]  God of Wonders.
+[4375.16 --> 4382.80]  Holy, Holy, the universe declares your majesty.
+[4384.88 --> 4396.04]  You are Holy, Holy, Lord of heaven and earth.
+[4398.04 --> 4402.64]  Lord of heaven and earth.
+[4402.64 --> 4432.62]  Lord of heaven and earth.
+[4432.64 --> 4434.64]  Lord of heaven and earth.
+[4436.64 --> 4442.64]  I will call your name by night.
+[4442.64 --> 4446.36]  Lord of wonders beyond our galaxy.
+[4448.46 --> 4459.14]  You are Holy, Holy, the universe declares your majesty.
+[4459.14 --> 4473.14]  You are Holy, Holy, Lord of heaven and earth.
+[4473.14 --> 4479.14]  Lord of heaven and earth.
+[4479.14 --> 4481.14]  You are Holy, Holy, the universe declares your majesty.
+[4481.14 --> 4485.14]  You are Holy, Holy, the universe declares your majesty.
+[4485.14 --> 4487.14]  You are Holy, Holy, the universe declares your majesty.
+[4487.14 --> 4489.14]  You are Holy, Holy, the universe declares your majesty.
+[4489.14 --> 4493.14]  You are Holy, Holy.
+[4493.14 --> 4499.14]  You are Holy, Holy, the universe declares your majesty.
+[4499.14 --> 4503.14]  You are Holy, Holy, the universe declares your majesty.
+[4503.14 --> 4513.14]  You are Holy, Holy, the universe declares your majesty.
+[4513.14 --> 4520.14]  You are Holy, Holy, the universe declares your majesty.
+[4520.14 --> 4523.14]  You are Holy, Holy, the universe declares your majesty.
+[4523.14 --> 4530.14]  You are Holy, Holy, Holy, the universe declares your majesty.
+[4530.14 --> 4544.14]  You are Holy, Holy, Holy, the universe declares your majesty.
+[4544.14 --> 4558.14]  You are Holy, Holy, Holy, you are Holy, Holy, Holy, Lord of heaven and earth.
+[4558.14 --> 4562.14]  Lord of heaven and earth.
+[4562.14 --> 4576.62]  Here's the parting blessing.
+[4577.68 --> 4579.46]  The Lord bless you and keep you.
+[4580.20 --> 4582.70]  The Lord make his face shine upon you and be gracious to you.
+[4583.22 --> 4586.06]  The Lord turn his face towards you and give you peace.
+[4586.94 --> 4587.20]  Amen.
+[4592.14 --> 4617.70]  To the amazing one, to the unchanging one,
+[4617.70 --> 4625.70]  to him the anthem raise, lift up your hymns of praise.
+[4625.70 --> 4642.70]  For all the things he's done, for all the things to come,
+[4642.70 --> 4649.70]  to him the anthem raise, lift up a shout out.
+[4650.50 --> 4653.70]  Praise him with all of the music.
+[4654.64 --> 4657.70]  Praise him with all of the nations.
+[4658.88 --> 4662.02]  Praise him with all of creation.
+[4662.58 --> 4664.36]  We praise him.
+[4664.70 --> 4667.08]  We praise him.
+[4667.08 --> 4675.08]  See how the risen one, see the exalted son.
+[4676.08 --> 4684.30]  To him the anthem raise, lift up your hymns of praise.
+[4684.72 --> 4692.52]  For all the things he's done, for all the things to come.
+[4692.52 --> 4699.86]  To him the anthem raise, lift up your shout out.
+[4700.30 --> 4702.52]  Praise him with all of your hearts.
+[4703.52 --> 4703.92]  Sing.
+[4704.38 --> 4707.62]  Praise him in this generation.
+[4708.62 --> 4711.82]  Jesus, the light of salvation.
+[4712.38 --> 4713.52]  We praise him.
+[4713.52 --> 4716.52]  We praise him.
+[4717.52 --> 4720.52]  We praise him.
+[4720.68 --> 4729.26]  We praise him.
+[4729.42 --> 4732.52]  We praise him.
+[4732.52 --> 4734.54]  We praise him.
+[4734.70 --> 4738.50]  Shine your light, forever and ever.
+[4739.58 --> 4742.46]  Shine your light, forever and ever.
+[4742.52 --> 4743.06]  Shine your light.
+[4743.06 --> 4748.02]  the world
+[4750.74 --> 4753.46]  shine your light
+[4753.46 --> 4754.68]  Now
+[4783.46 --> 4787.62]  Praise Him with all of music
+[4787.62 --> 4791.68]  Praise Him in all of creation
+[4791.68 --> 4795.90]  Praise Him with all of creation
+[4795.90 --> 4800.56]  We praise Him, we praise Him
+[4800.56 --> 4804.58]  Praise Him with all of your heart sing
+[4804.58 --> 4808.26]  Praise Him in this generation
+[4808.26 --> 4812.48]  Jesus, your vital salvation
+[4812.48 --> 4817.72]  We praise Him, we praise Him
+[4842.48 --> 4849.48]  Praise Him with all of you
+[4849.48 --> 4851.48]  Praise Him with all of your heart sing
+[4851.48 --> 4861.72]  Praise Him with all of your heart sing
+[4861.72 --> 4891.70]  Thank you.
+[4891.72 --> 4921.70]  Thank you.
+[4921.72 --> 4951.70]  Thank you.
+[4951.72 --> 4956.72]  Thank you.

Sunday Worship - August 22 2021_summary.txt

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+• Expressions of devotion and commitment to God
+• The love and identity of God as a loving Father
+• Jesus as the King of glory, strong and mighty
+• The power of God's name to bring freedom and salvation
+• Testimonies of faith and confidence in God's presence and goodness
+• Introduction by Kevin Lobert, youth pastor at Langley Emanuel
+• Announcement of new choir and interest in joining
+• Details on upcoming youth events: worship night, day camp, Reactivate conference
+• Reading of God's greeting from Revelation 1:4-6
+• Call to worship from Psalm 134
+• Praise and worship of God
+• Comparison of human beauty with the Lord's beauty
+• Jesus as the risen Lord, slain to reconcile humanity to God
+• Worshiping only Him alone on His throne
+• The Lamb upon the throne being forever and eternally glorious
+• Gratitude for the gift of grace in Jesus Christ
+• Jesus as a source of joy, righteousness, freedom, love, peace, and hope
+• Life bound to Him and reliance on His power
+• Overcoming through faith in Christ and acknowledging His presence
+• Victory over sin and death through Jesus' sacrifice and resurrection
+• Trusting in Jesus for pardon and forgiveness
+• Longing to follow Jesus and be renewed day by day until standing before the throne
+• Praise and worship of God, giving all glory to Him
+• Difficulty in discerning truth and rightness amidst conflicting voices
+• Importance of seeking guidance from a trusted source (God's word) to know the truth
+• Assurance of salvation through Jesus' sacrifice and victory over sin and death
+• Children's prayer time and invitation for kids to come forward
+• Discussion about summer activities and sharing experiences
+• Invitation to pray before children's worship time and the Lord's blessing
+• The children's blessing is recited and those who know it are asked to stand
+• A congregational prayer is led, asking for guidance, wisdom, and healing for individuals in the congregation
+• The special offering is collected for World Renew disaster relief
+• Hymns are sung, including "I Surrender All"
+• The pastor thanks everyone for their attendance and participation.
+• Prayer for healing and strength for Lord after his fall
+• Prayers for the Miles family as they prepare to celebrate Mike's life
+• Prayers for those affected by fires in the province and around the world
+• Election concerns, including voting and leadership
+• Prayers for students and staff as school begins
+• Concerns about normalcy returning after the pandemic
+• Prayers for the church to remain a light in the community
+• Requests for wisdom and guidance for the church council and pastors
+• Prayer for Kevin and his message
+• Discussion on heaven and hell
+• Importance of understanding what heaven and hell look like
+• Questions raised about the nature of heaven and hell
+• Controversy surrounding opinions on hell and heaven
+• Passage from Matthew 25 read in context to discuss judgment
+• Separation of sheep and goats based on actions towards others
+• The concept of heaven and hell as eternal punishment or reward
+• An illustration by Francis Chan representing existence as a rope that ends at the point of death
+• The tendency to focus on earthly life and forget about eternity
+• The question of why hell is rarely discussed in modern Christian culture
+• The debate over whether hell is real, including various views among Christians (annihilationism, universalism, traditional view)
+• Annihilationism: a view that those who don't believe in Jesus cease to exist and there is no hell or eternal suffering.
+• Universalism: everyone goes to heaven regardless of their actions or beliefs, due to God's great grace.
+• Traditional view of hell: if you reject the truth of Jesus as your savior, you go to hell.
+• The traditional view of hell is uncomfortable and may be wrong
+• Francis Chan and Preston Sprinkle's book "Erasing Hell" argues against universalism and emphasizes the reality of hell as a place where God judges people at the end of their lives
+• A judge's role is to weigh evidence objectively, reach impartial conclusions, and impose sentences equitably, which vindicates God's judgment rather than making Him seem vengeful
+• God is the ultimate judge and not humans, who should not try to design new rubrics for judgment in a complex universe that they barely understand
+• The reality of hell and heaven are real, but their exact nature is difficult to define
+• Jesus speaks of hell frequently in the Gospels
+• Examples include Matthew 11:23-24, where Jesus warns the city of Capernaum that it will be thrown into Hades (or Gehenna) due to its wickedness
+• Gehenna is an actual place, a valley near Jerusalem where ancient kings sacrificed babies and later became a dump for burning garbage and dead animals
+• Jesus uses Gehenna as a reference to describe hell in multiple places throughout the Gospels
+• The concept of Gehenna and its symbolic representation in the Bible
+• Jesus' use of Gehenna as a metaphor for hell
+• Different interpretations of hell, including Dante's Inferno
+• Dante's depiction of nine concentric circles of torment within the earth
+• Other views of hell, such as Rabbi Haim's parable about long utensils preventing self-service and C.S. Lewis' concept in The Great Divorce
+• The speaker describes hell as a gray city with constant rain and gloom
+• Hell is portrayed as a place of quarrelsome residents who fight constantly and cannot coexist
+• Residents can create things by thinking about them, but they are poorly made and unsatisfying
+• Hell is depicted in three different ways, but its true nature is unknown
+• The absence of God in hell means hope is lost, love does not exist, and selfishness reigns
+• Heaven is described as a place with no sea, where the holy city of new Jerusalem comes down from God
+• Heaven is portrayed as a beautiful, peaceful place prepared by God for his people
+• The throne of God is among the people
+• There will be no more death, mourning, crying, or pain
+• A river of water of life flows from the throne of God
+• The tree of life bears twelve crops of fruit every month
+• No curse will exist in heaven
+• God's servants will serve him and see his face
+• Light will not be needed in heaven because God will give light to those who dwell there
+• Discussion of heaven and hell being infrequent in conversation
+• Reasons why heaven and hell are not discussed often: 
+  • Those who have put their faith in Jesus Christ as their savior are already saved
+  • Heaven is a concrete reality for them, eliminating the need to discuss it
+• Second reason: discussing heaven and hell may not be necessary because Jesus has already accomplished salvation through his sinless life, death on the cross, and resurrection
+• Using heaven and hell as motivators for conversion
+• Critique of "turn or burn" sermons and tactics
+• Problem with using fear as a means to convert unbelievers
+• Distinction between morality and salvation through Jesus Christ
+• Shift from emphasizing what people must do to gain salvation to focusing on what God has done
+• The purpose of the mission is to share the saving power and love of Christ.
+• Heaven and hell should not be used as motivators or gimmicks for good behavior or evangelism.
+• Faith in Christ and understanding his gospel message lead to salvation and a changed life.
+• The Holy Spirit, not fear of hell or promise of heaven, changes lives.
+• Once faith is established, eternity with the triune God becomes certain.
+• Using heaven and hell as motivators can distract from the true nature of the gospel.
+• Faith in Christ has already saved the world from the clutches of hell.
+• Faith and eternity
+• Submission to God's will
+• Love for God and neighbors
+• Selflessness
+• Living according to God's promises
+• Christ's death and resurrection
+• Salvation through the cross
+• Heaven and hell
+• God's parting blessing
+• A priestly blessing from Numbers 6
+• Days of Ezekiel and David
+• Temple of praise
+• Harvest and laborers in God's vineyard
+• Jesus' return, described as riding on the clouds and shining like the sun
+• New leaders and salvation
+• Psalm-like repetition of themes: God's glory, new leadership, salvation
+• Personal testimony of failure, shame, and redemption
+• Various disconnected phrases and names: Big Ash, kolk toazoge, fathersed demons, Collaborate, Stay

Sunday Worship - August 22 2021_transcript.txt

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+[0.00 --> 6.74]  God, you will never turn your back on me.
+[6.92 --> 12.10]  How courage become your treasure?
+[13.14 --> 18.64]  The love of God has changed my destiny.
+[19.36 --> 24.42]  I serve the King with good intentions.
+[24.42 --> 30.74]  God, you will never turn your back on me.
+[31.62 --> 36.76]  How courage become your treasure?
+[37.68 --> 43.26]  The love of God has changed my destiny.
+[43.26 --> 50.46]  You are the love.
+[51.46 --> 55.18]  It comes with no conditions.
+[56.48 --> 59.58]  You give us your heart.
+[60.96 --> 67.56]  Your smile is in the blood of Jesus.
+[67.56 --> 73.60]  I know who I am because of you.
+[74.60 --> 79.80]  I know who I am because of you.
+[80.80 --> 84.88]  I know who I am.
+[87.08 --> 91.56]  I know who I am.
+[91.56 --> 98.36]  Your love becomes me, Lord, the nations.
+[99.72 --> 103.94]  You give us your heart.
+[104.40 --> 110.64]  My hope is in the blood of Jesus.
+[110.64 --> 117.80]  I know who I am because of who you are.
+[121.80 --> 124.00]  Oh, yes, I know who I am.
+[124.00 --> 125.00]  I know who I am.
+[125.08 --> 126.28]  Don't get the truth.
+[126.64 --> 129.68]  Jesus, I believe you.
+[129.68 --> 154.68]  Jesus, I believe you.
+[154.68 --> 184.66]  Jesus, I believe you.
+[184.68 --> 214.66]  Jesus, I believe you.
+[214.68 --> 215.66]  Oh, yes, I believe you.
+[215.66 --> 216.64]  Oh, yes.
+[216.66 --> 217.34]  I believe you.
+[217.90 --> 218.74]  Jesus, I believe you.
+[218.88 --> 220.70]  Jesus, I believe you.
+[221.20 --> 225.58]  Oh, yes, I believe you.
+[225.58 --> 231.40]  And there is peace in the storm, in the storm.
+[231.84 --> 235.38]  No, don't forget, He is Lord.
+[235.60 --> 238.00]  He is Lord of all.
+[241.58 --> 243.18]  Come on, so.
+[243.66 --> 246.04]  There is a King of glory.
+[246.46 --> 248.88]  There is a God who saves.
+[249.26 --> 251.66]  One who's strong and mighty.
+[251.66 --> 254.12]  Freedom is in His name.
+[254.12 --> 257.22]  So open the gates of heaven.
+[257.78 --> 260.08]  Lift up a shadow of praise.
+[260.54 --> 262.80]  There is a lion rolling.
+[263.22 --> 265.54]  Jesus, the King of glory.
+[267.88 --> 270.24]  So lift your eyes.
+[270.50 --> 273.24]  Standing on, standing on.
+[273.68 --> 277.24]  There is one, only one.
+[277.24 --> 279.82]  Where my heart comes from.
+[280.78 --> 281.36]  Come on.
+[281.36 --> 283.34]  Lift your eyes.
+[283.42 --> 284.44]  Lift your eyes.
+[284.52 --> 285.06]  Oh, say.
+[285.56 --> 287.90]  There is a King of glory.
+[288.32 --> 290.74]  There is a God who saves.
+[291.20 --> 293.46]  One who's strong and mighty.
+[293.92 --> 295.98]  Freedom is in His name.
+[296.46 --> 299.04]  So open the gates of heaven.
+[299.70 --> 301.90]  Lift up a shadow of praise.
+[301.90 --> 302.90]  There is a King of glory.
+[302.90 --> 303.90]  There is a King of glory.
+[303.90 --> 304.90]  There is a King of glory.
+[304.90 --> 305.90]  There is a King of glory.
+[305.90 --> 306.90]  Jesus, the King of glory.
+[314.90 --> 315.52]  There's no one like it.
+[315.52 --> 339.56]  As you now know the King of glory.
+[339.56 --> 345.74]  You nations bow, mountains shade.
+[346.52 --> 351.58]  At the south, just one name.
+[351.58 --> 358.58]  Over all, Jesus saves.
+[359.58 --> 360.60]  I know.
+[360.60 --> 370.54]  There is the King of glory.
+[371.14 --> 373.50]  It's the Lord, strong and mighty.
+[374.42 --> 376.52]  The Lord, mighty and mighty.
+[377.16 --> 378.44]  This is our King.
+[379.16 --> 380.78]  This is the King of glory.
+[381.78 --> 384.74]  Come on, same time, same time.
+[384.94 --> 385.54]  So, so.
+[385.96 --> 388.42]  There is a King of glory.
+[388.42 --> 391.26]  There is a God who saves.
+[391.58 --> 393.92]  One who's strong and mighty.
+[394.46 --> 396.54]  Freedom is in His name.
+[397.14 --> 399.68]  Open the gates of heaven.
+[400.14 --> 402.40]  Pick up the shout of praise.
+[402.86 --> 405.08]  There is a lion rolling.
+[405.64 --> 407.82]  Jesus the King of glory.
+[413.46 --> 416.26]  There is a lion rolling.
+[416.26 --> 419.04]  Jesus the King of glory.
+[419.04 --> 424.04]  Ch появouveください
+[449.04 --> 454.58]  You're the God who makes the giants fall.
+[456.36 --> 460.64]  You bring down the walls of Jericho.
+[463.06 --> 470.22]  You're the God who gives the miracle we believe.
+[470.22 --> 480.54]  You're the God who parts the ocean wide.
+[482.22 --> 486.78]  Just to bring us closer to your side.
+[488.70 --> 493.14]  You're the God who brings the dead to life.
+[493.14 --> 495.14]  We believe.
+[496.58 --> 498.40]  Oh, we believe.
+[500.22 --> 502.22]  Oh, we believe.
+[502.22 --> 505.04]  God, how great you are.
+[505.62 --> 508.12]  Great things you have done.
+[508.80 --> 514.64]  For everything we've seen, there is more to come.
+[515.32 --> 521.02]  Every victory, every battle won.
+[521.02 --> 527.52]  For everything we've seen, there is more to come.
+[527.52 --> 538.12]  We are confident in all your ways.
+[540.12 --> 544.48]  Because we know you never make mistakes.
+[544.48 --> 550.82]  God, you fill us with the greater faith.
+[550.82 --> 552.82]  We believe.
+[552.82 --> 554.12]  Do you believe?
+[554.12 --> 554.96]  Do you believe?
+[554.96 --> 554.98]  Do you believe?
+[554.98 --> 557.12]  Do you believe?
+[557.12 --> 558.38]  Oh, God.
+[558.38 --> 562.60]  God, how great you are.
+[562.60 --> 562.76]  God, how great you are.
+[563.20 --> 565.92]  Great things you have done.
+[566.40 --> 572.16]  For everything we've seen, there is more to come.
+[572.94 --> 578.66]  Every victory, every battle won.
+[579.20 --> 584.82]  For everything we've seen, there is more to come.
+[584.82 --> 587.14]  Good morning.
+[587.92 --> 591.62]  That's how we like to get attention in this church, is just a big, low feedback.
+[592.24 --> 593.76]  It's so good to be with you this morning.
+[593.86 --> 594.78]  My name is Kevin Lobert.
+[594.82 --> 596.56]  I'm the youth pastor here at Langley Emanuel.
+[597.04 --> 599.86]  And it's great to be able to join in person today for this service.
+[600.34 --> 601.44]  Welcome to everyone here.
+[601.52 --> 602.86]  Welcome to you who are online.
+[603.82 --> 605.16]  Yeah, like I said, it's just good to be together.
+[605.28 --> 607.48]  There is a song that is going to start playing in one second.
+[608.38 --> 609.00]  Here it comes.
+[609.00 --> 616.82]  Isn't that nice?
+[618.30 --> 620.46]  So, that can keep playing while I talk.
+[620.56 --> 624.04]  Just let it be the background music behind my awful voice.
+[624.72 --> 628.42]  There is a choir that is starting here in this church.
+[628.60 --> 632.00]  And if you are interested in joining it, you will be singing this song.
+[632.98 --> 636.70]  It's actually a big, long, 40-minute, I don't know, what's it called, Mark?
+[637.30 --> 637.74]  Cantata?
+[637.74 --> 640.36]  Joy Has Gone.
+[640.66 --> 642.12]  So, Joy Has Gone is the piece.
+[642.24 --> 642.96]  There's lots of songs.
+[643.06 --> 643.76]  It sounds really nice.
+[643.84 --> 644.72]  I did listen to the whole thing.
+[645.12 --> 649.78]  If you are interested in joining this choir, Mark DeGeis is the man that you want to talk to.
+[649.92 --> 651.66]  So, it is going to be starting in September.
+[652.10 --> 655.74]  It will be starting on Labor Day weekend, the first Monday, actually, of the Labor Day weekend.
+[656.60 --> 658.60]  And then it will be having rehearsals every Monday following.
+[658.74 --> 661.50]  So, if that's something that you are interested in, please talk to Mark.
+[661.76 --> 664.34]  All skill levels of singing are welcome.
+[664.62 --> 665.88]  So, he's your man.
+[665.98 --> 666.48]  Talk to him.
+[666.48 --> 667.52]  We hope we get lots of people.
+[667.64 --> 669.00]  It's a really good chance for some community.
+[670.16 --> 671.50]  I've got a couple more announcements.
+[671.66 --> 674.78]  Actually, just one three-part announcement for the youth out there.
+[674.82 --> 676.34]  Youth, we've got a worship tonight tonight.
+[676.64 --> 677.38]  Come on out to that.
+[677.44 --> 679.18]  We're going to do it out here in the courtyard, probably.
+[679.60 --> 683.58]  We're also having our youth day camp next week, Saturday.
+[683.58 --> 689.08]  So, if you want to come to youth camp, which is just going to be for one full day, please sign up.
+[689.14 --> 690.10]  I've sent links for that.
+[690.18 --> 691.84]  You can see them in the bulletin or in my emails.
+[692.28 --> 696.70]  Sign up for that so we know how much food and games and stuff to bring as well.
+[696.70 --> 699.74]  And finally, we are doing reactivate again this year.
+[699.92 --> 703.42]  Reactivate is a big youth conference for youth across BC.
+[704.06 --> 705.80]  And you can sign up for that as well.
+[706.60 --> 708.62]  We weren't able to do it last year, of course, because of COVID.
+[708.70 --> 710.24]  We're excited to be able to do that this year.
+[710.50 --> 713.26]  And that will be for September 10th through 12th.
+[713.26 --> 714.92]  So, sign up online for that as well.
+[715.38 --> 716.88]  Hopefully, you can make it out to that.
+[717.96 --> 721.76]  I'm going to invite you all, please, just to stand up now, even at home, if you would.
+[721.82 --> 722.66]  Please stand up.
+[722.72 --> 727.16]  And we are going to hear God's greeting this morning as we start this service off.
+[727.16 --> 731.86]  So, God's greeting this morning comes from Revelation chapter 1.
+[733.02 --> 738.60]  Grace to you and peace from him who is and who was and who is to come.
+[739.00 --> 742.86]  And from the seven spirits that are before his throne and from Jesus Christ.
+[743.26 --> 749.10]  Who is the faithful witness, the firstborn of the dead, and the ruler of the kings of the earth.
+[750.22 --> 750.52]  Amen.
+[751.28 --> 751.98]  Let's sing together.
+[753.66 --> 755.84]  Good morning and welcome to worship.
+[756.10 --> 759.04]  Our call to worship this morning is from Psalm 134.
+[759.96 --> 764.46]  Praise the Lord, all you servants of the Lord, who minister by night in the house of the Lord.
+[765.24 --> 768.32]  Lift up your hands in the sanctuary and praise the Lord.
+[769.02 --> 773.12]  May the Lord bless you from Zion, he who is the maker of heaven and earth.
+[773.26 --> 774.40]  temple.
+[774.40 --> 774.90]  Amen.
+[774.90 --> 776.68]  Amen.
+[776.78 --> 777.68]  Amen.
+[777.68 --> 778.48]  commitment.
+[781.22 --> 783.10]  Oh, heavenly, fais.
+[783.10 --> 783.72]  Amen.
+[783.72 --> 784.26]  Amen.
+[784.26 --> 784.32]  Amen.
+[784.32 --> 785.02]  Amen.
+[785.02 --> 785.42]  Amen.
+[785.42 --> 785.46]  Amen.
+[785.46 --> 787.52]  Amen.
+[787.52 --> 789.04]  Amen.
+[789.04 --> 789.74]  Amen.
+[793.74 --> 795.26]  Old heaven, bless.
+[795.26 --> 795.74]  Amen.
+[795.74 --> 796.26]  Amen.
+[796.40 --> 796.42]  Amen.
+[796.42 --> 800.80]  It is done, God is done, Marie
+[800.80 --> 804.24]  of the risen Lord
+[804.24 --> 807.68]  Who can compare
+[807.68 --> 815.04]  with the beauty of the Lord
+[815.04 --> 818.30]  Forever He will be
+[818.30 --> 821.04]  Forever He will be
+[821.04 --> 823.50]  The Lamb upon the throne
+[823.50 --> 825.96]  The Lamb upon the throne
+[825.96 --> 828.68]  The Lamb upon the throne
+[828.68 --> 831.70]  I can't keep on the throne
+[831.70 --> 835.06]  And worship Him alone
+[835.06 --> 840.20]  I will proclaim
+[840.20 --> 847.42]  The glory of the risen Lord
+[847.42 --> 851.42]  Who once was slain
+[851.42 --> 858.20]  To reconcile man to God
+[858.20 --> 861.58]  Forever He will be
+[861.58 --> 864.52]  Forever He will be
+[864.52 --> 866.58]  Forever He will be
+[866.58 --> 869.64]  The Lamb upon the throne
+[869.64 --> 875.22]  I can't leave out my knee
+[875.22 --> 878.36]  And worship Him alone
+[878.36 --> 883.22]  Forever He will be
+[883.22 --> 886.60]  Forever He will be
+[886.60 --> 888.60]  Forever He will be
+[888.60 --> 891.60]  The Lamb upon the throne
+[891.60 --> 896.60]  I can't leave out my knee
+[896.60 --> 899.60]  I worship You alone
+[899.60 --> 907.98]  The Lamb upon the throne
+[907.98 --> 921.36]  The Lamb upon the throne
+[921.36 --> 924.74]  The gift of grace
+[924.74 --> 928.12]  Is Jesus my Dean
+[928.12 --> 933.12]  There is no more
+[933.12 --> 937.12]  For heaven now to give
+[937.12 --> 941.12]  He is my joy
+[941.12 --> 945.50]  My righteousness and freedom
+[945.50 --> 949.50]  My steadfast love
+[949.50 --> 953.50]  My deep and boundless peace
+[953.50 --> 957.50]  To this I hold
+[957.50 --> 962.24]  My hope is only Jesus
+[962.24 --> 967.62]  For my life is holy
+[967.62 --> 967.94]  For my life is holy
+[967.94 --> 970.62]  Bound to Him
+[970.62 --> 975.78]  Oh how strange and divine
+[975.78 --> 978.72]  I can sing
+[978.72 --> 980.86]  All is mine
+[980.86 --> 982.82]  Yet not I
+[982.82 --> 987.24]  The new Christ in me
+[987.24 --> 995.82]  The night is dark
+[995.82 --> 999.82]  But I am not forsaken
+[999.82 --> 1003.62]  For by my side
+[1003.62 --> 1007.62]  The Savior He will stay
+[1007.62 --> 1013.00]  I labor on
+[1013.00 --> 1017.50]  In weakness and rejoicing
+[1017.50 --> 1020.94]  For in my need
+[1020.94 --> 1025.08]  His power is displayed
+[1025.08 --> 1029.00]  To this I hold
+[1029.00 --> 1034.38]  My shepherd will defend me
+[1034.38 --> 1039.08]  Through the deepest valley
+[1039.08 --> 1042.16]  He will lead
+[1042.16 --> 1047.40]  For the night has been won
+[1047.40 --> 1050.50]  And I shall overcome
+[1050.50 --> 1053.44]  Yet not I
+[1053.44 --> 1058.04]  But through Christ in me
+[1058.04 --> 1065.86]  No fate I dread
+[1065.86 --> 1069.92]  I know that I am forgiven
+[1069.92 --> 1073.42]  The future shook
+[1073.42 --> 1078.88]  The price it has been paid
+[1078.88 --> 1081.82]  For Jesus bled
+[1081.82 --> 1086.42]  And suffered for my pardon
+[1086.42 --> 1090.74]  And He was raised
+[1090.74 --> 1095.40]  To overthrow the grave
+[1095.40 --> 1098.42]  To this I hold
+[1098.42 --> 1102.44]  My sin has been defeated
+[1102.44 --> 1110.16]  Jesus now and ever is my plea
+[1110.16 --> 1115.48]  All the chains are released
+[1115.48 --> 1117.48]  I can sing
+[1117.48 --> 1119.48]  I am free
+[1119.48 --> 1121.48]  And not I
+[1121.48 --> 1126.48]  But through Christ in me
+[1126.48 --> 1134.16]  With every breath
+[1134.16 --> 1136.16]  I long to follow
+[1136.16 --> 1138.66]  I long to follow Jesus
+[1138.66 --> 1142.16]  For He has said
+[1142.16 --> 1147.28]  That He will bring me home
+[1147.28 --> 1150.16]  And day by day
+[1150.16 --> 1155.16]  I know He will renew me
+[1155.16 --> 1160.58]  Until I stand with joy
+[1160.58 --> 1162.58]  Before the throne
+[1162.58 --> 1166.58]  To this I hold
+[1166.58 --> 1167.58]  My hope
+[1167.58 --> 1168.68]  My hope
+[1168.68 --> 1170.58]  Is only Jesus
+[1170.58 --> 1174.58]  All the glory
+[1174.58 --> 1178.58]  Evermore to Him
+[1178.58 --> 1183.58]  When the race is complete
+[1183.58 --> 1188.58]  Still my lips shall repeat
+[1188.58 --> 1190.58]  Yet not I
+[1190.58 --> 1195.58]  But through Christ in me
+[1195.58 --> 1200.58]  When the race is complete
+[1200.58 --> 1204.58]  Still my lips shall repeat
+[1204.58 --> 1206.58]  Yet not I
+[1206.58 --> 1207.58]  Yet not I
+[1207.58 --> 1213.58]  But through Christ in me
+[1213.58 --> 1216.58]  Yet not I
+[1216.58 --> 1221.58]  But through Christ in me
+[1221.58 --> 1233.58]  Lord
+[1233.58 --> 1238.58]  We are often blind to Your goodness
+[1238.58 --> 1240.34]  And mercies in our lives
+[1240.34 --> 1244.18]  So easily led astray by false testimony
+[1244.18 --> 1247.40]  But it is difficult to know what is true
+[1247.40 --> 1248.38]  What is right
+[1248.38 --> 1250.20]  When there are so many voices
+[1250.20 --> 1252.20]  Some voices we trust
+[1252.20 --> 1253.20]  Saying different things
+[1253.20 --> 1256.20]  We confess we don't always come to You for truth
+[1256.20 --> 1259.20]  But search for other opinions in this world to assure us
+[1260.20 --> 1262.20]  But You say
+[1262.20 --> 1263.20]  If You abide in My word
+[1263.20 --> 1265.20]  You are truly My disciples
+[1265.20 --> 1267.20]  And You will know the truth
+[1267.20 --> 1269.20]  And the truth will set You free
+[1269.20 --> 1270.20]  For You are truth
+[1270.20 --> 1271.20]  Be our vision
+[1271.20 --> 1272.20]  O Lord
+[1272.20 --> 1274.20]  Open our eyes to the truth of You
+[1274.20 --> 1275.20]  And what You have done for us
+[1275.20 --> 1278.20]  That we may live in the assurance of Your love
+[1278.20 --> 1281.20]  For You are victorious over sin and death
+[1281.20 --> 1283.20]  And we are heirs of that salvation
+[1283.20 --> 1285.20]  Purchased through Jesus' sacrifice
+[1285.20 --> 1287.20]  And raised up with Him in victory
+[1287.20 --> 1289.20]  In Your name we pray
+[1289.20 --> 1290.20]  Amen
+[1290.20 --> 1293.20]  Amen
+[1293.20 --> 1295.20]  are you
+[1295.20 --> 1325.18]  Let's sing.
+[1325.20 --> 1355.18]  Let's sing.
+[1355.20 --> 1357.20]  Let's sing.
+[1385.20 --> 1387.20]  Let's sing.
+[1387.20 --> 1389.20]  This is my story.
+[1390.50 --> 1392.88]  This is my song.
+[1393.54 --> 1399.14]  Praising my Savior all the day long.
+[1399.20 --> 1402.06]  This is my story.
+[1402.94 --> 1405.38]  This is my song.
+[1405.38 --> 1411.38]  Praising my Savior all the day long.
+[1413.38 --> 1419.24]  Perfect submission, all is at rest.
+[1419.84 --> 1425.38]  I and my Savior am happy and blessed.
+[1425.38 --> 1431.38]  Watching and waiting, looking above.
+[1433.22 --> 1439.38]  Filled with His goodness, lost in His love.
+[1439.38 --> 1441.38]  This is my story.
+[1443.06 --> 1445.44]  This is my song.
+[1446.16 --> 1451.38]  Praising my Savior all the day long.
+[1451.38 --> 1454.66]  This is my story.
+[1455.38 --> 1457.38]  This is my song.
+[1458.26 --> 1463.38]  Praising my Savior all the day long.
+[1463.38 --> 1467.38]  This is my story.
+[1467.38 --> 1469.38]  This is my song.
+[1469.38 --> 1475.38]  Praising my Savior all the day long.
+[1475.38 --> 1479.38]  This is my story.
+[1479.38 --> 1481.38]  This is my song.
+[1481.38 --> 1487.38]  Praising my Savior all the day long.
+[1487.38 --> 1489.38]  A day long.
+[1489.38 --> 1491.38]  A day long.
+[1491.38 --> 1492.22]  A day long.
+[1492.22 --> 1493.04]  A day long.
+[1497.04 --> 1509.68]  Peace into the sea.
+[1510.38 --> 1511.68]  дело to life.
+[1512.24 --> 1513.38]  diyor to drodz Cosmo.
+[1513.38 --> 1515.38]  Amen.
+[1543.38 --> 1545.38]  Amen.
+[1573.38 --> 1575.38]  Amen.
+[1603.38 --> 1605.38]  Amen.
+[1633.38 --> 1635.38]  Amen.
+[1663.38 --> 1665.38]  Amen.
+[1693.38 --> 1714.40]  I am going to invite any kids who would like to, you can come forward, join me on the floor here.
+[1714.84 --> 1718.20]  And we are going to do a little prayer before it's time for children's worship time.
+[1718.26 --> 1719.08]  So come on up.
+[1720.02 --> 1720.90]  Come on up.
+[1720.90 --> 1723.28]  All right.
+[1723.32 --> 1724.14]  Here comes a few.
+[1727.56 --> 1728.32]  All right.
+[1728.40 --> 1729.02]  Look at them all.
+[1729.08 --> 1730.10]  We got lots of kids today.
+[1730.16 --> 1730.84]  That's so great.
+[1733.82 --> 1735.22]  How's everybody's summer going?
+[1735.82 --> 1736.34]  Yeah?
+[1736.60 --> 1738.72]  Has anybody done anything fun outside?
+[1739.18 --> 1739.50]  Yeah.
+[1739.92 --> 1740.16]  Yeah?
+[1740.48 --> 1745.82]  I think I'm kind of like washing the carrots.
+[1746.52 --> 1747.66]  Washing the carrots.
+[1747.66 --> 1749.12]  That does sound like fun.
+[1749.12 --> 1752.32]  That is everybody's favorite thing of summer, I think.
+[1752.94 --> 1754.42]  Anybody else do anything fun?
+[1754.50 --> 1754.64]  Yeah?
+[1757.04 --> 1758.44]  Oh, swimming in the pool.
+[1758.58 --> 1759.16]  That is very fun.
+[1759.22 --> 1760.96]  That's, I think, some of our favorite things to do, too.
+[1761.90 --> 1763.94]  We are going to go to children's worship time in a second.
+[1764.02 --> 1764.26]  Okay?
+[1764.38 --> 1765.54]  And then we're going to hear a story.
+[1765.62 --> 1767.12]  And we're going to learn a little bit more about God.
+[1767.12 --> 1768.70]  But before we do that, let's pray.
+[1769.12 --> 1770.64]  And then we're going to do the Lord's blessing.
+[1770.94 --> 1771.32]  All right?
+[1771.68 --> 1772.70]  To the congregation.
+[1772.92 --> 1773.84]  So bow your heads with me.
+[1773.90 --> 1774.24]  Let's pray.
+[1775.14 --> 1776.92]  Dear God, thank you so much for these kids.
+[1777.06 --> 1779.44]  Thank you for the summer that they are enjoying.
+[1780.10 --> 1782.38]  Thank you for your will in their lives.
+[1782.44 --> 1785.42]  And we just pray, God, that you'll be with them right now as they go to children's worship time.
+[1785.42 --> 1787.44]  God, help us learn more about you.
+[1787.86 --> 1790.44]  And for us non-kids who are staying back, let us do the same.
+[1790.66 --> 1792.02]  So we pray this in your son's name.
+[1792.22 --> 1792.54]  Amen.
+[1793.44 --> 1793.66]  Okay.
+[1793.74 --> 1797.16]  Who remembers the children's blessing, the Lord's blessing we do?
+[1797.26 --> 1797.72]  Hands up.
+[1798.60 --> 1798.92]  One.
+[1799.20 --> 1799.52]  One.
+[1799.74 --> 1800.48]  Okay, there's a few.
+[1800.56 --> 1800.68]  Okay.
+[1800.74 --> 1801.74]  So we're going to stand up.
+[1802.02 --> 1802.98]  And we're going to look at the church.
+[1803.06 --> 1804.32]  And we're going to do this with our hands.
+[1804.64 --> 1806.46]  And then we're going to say, the Lord be with you.
+[1806.64 --> 1806.92]  Okay?
+[1807.02 --> 1808.32]  And the church is going to stand up.
+[1808.42 --> 1809.76]  And they know their role, I think.
+[1809.80 --> 1811.78]  So we can all turn around to look at them.
+[1812.28 --> 1813.10]  It's very fun.
+[1813.10 --> 1815.50]  And we're going to say, the Lord be with you together.
+[1815.60 --> 1816.04]  Are you ready?
+[1816.60 --> 1818.42]  One, two, three.
+[1819.04 --> 1821.14]  The Lord be with you.
+[1821.68 --> 1823.22]  And also with you.
+[1823.40 --> 1823.70]  All right.
+[1823.74 --> 1826.68]  And if you are in kindergarten or younger, you can head to children's worship time.
+[1826.72 --> 1828.96]  And if you're older than that, you can head back to sit with your parents.
+[1843.10 --> 1854.40]  Oh, I can expectations.
+[1854.40 --> 1869.26]  offering is my mic on there we go we're going to do the offering right now
+[1869.26 --> 1874.12]  uh and i was thinking a deacon was going to come and do that but i don't see a deacon coming up
+[1874.12 --> 1880.40]  here to do that so i'm gonna do oh oh he's coming there he is there he is i've called him out but
+[1880.40 --> 1882.26]  he's smiling so it's all okay thanks mike
+[1882.26 --> 1894.66]  morning today's offering is for our church's budget and the special offering is for world
+[1894.66 --> 1900.38]  renewed disaster relief world renew works in 30 countries responding to both natural disasters
+[1900.38 --> 1907.10]  and civil unrest currently including haiti and afghanistan they partner with organizations
+[1907.10 --> 1913.90]  providing for displaced families and invest in local economies to help rebuild communities
+[1913.90 --> 1920.22]  renew hope and bring long-term stability unless otherwise marked all offerings will be given
+[1920.22 --> 1921.52]  to world renew thank you
+[1921.52 --> 1938.18]  warning
+[1938.18 --> 1951.66]  All to Jesus I surrender
+[1951.66 --> 1957.36]  All to Him I freely give
+[1957.36 --> 1963.20]  I will ever love and trust Him
+[1963.20 --> 1968.70]  In His presence daily live
+[1968.70 --> 1973.72]  I surrender all
+[1973.72 --> 1979.46]  I surrender all
+[1979.46 --> 1985.32]  All to Thee my blessed Savior
+[1985.32 --> 1990.12]  I surrender all
+[1990.12 --> 1996.74]  All to Jesus I surrender
+[1996.74 --> 2002.74]  Humbly at His feet I bow
+[2002.74 --> 2008.68]  Worldly pleasures all forsaken
+[2008.68 --> 2014.28]  Take me Jesus, take me now
+[2014.28 --> 2019.90]  I surrender all
+[2019.90 --> 2024.90]  I surrender all
+[2024.90 --> 2031.90]  All to Thee my blessed Savior
+[2031.90 --> 2037.52]  I surrender all
+[2037.52 --> 2067.50]  Thank you.
+[2067.52 --> 2069.06]  Good morning.
+[2070.72 --> 2073.60]  Shall we bow our heads in our congregational prayer?
+[2078.08 --> 2079.16]  Heavenly Father,
+[2081.44 --> 2083.74]  humbly we come before your throne.
+[2086.62 --> 2093.66]  We thank you, Lord, that freely again today we may be here in your house.
+[2093.66 --> 2102.40]  And Lord, may we too know that even before we were here, you were here already.
+[2102.40 --> 2111.10]  And we pray, Lord, that as we worship you this morning that we may come do so in adoration,
+[2111.42 --> 2117.12]  that we may honor you, that we may glorify you in word and in song.
+[2117.12 --> 2122.84]  Lord, you are great.
+[2123.34 --> 2127.64]  And Lord, it is impossible for us to understand your greatness.
+[2128.00 --> 2133.48]  And yet we pray that even today here so we may be drawn to you.
+[2134.44 --> 2141.50]  Lord, we pray for the children that are also worshiping in children's worship time at this time also.
+[2141.50 --> 2145.76]  And Lord, be with them, be with their leaders also.
+[2148.62 --> 2155.00]  May they too, Lord, in their own even simple ways acknowledge you and worship you.
+[2155.00 --> 2161.88]  Lord, we pray that they too, our children and grandchildren, may come to know you.
+[2165.16 --> 2171.20]  And Lord, we thank you for each of us that are here.
+[2171.30 --> 2174.58]  And yet, Lord, we know there are some that are not here this morning.
+[2175.72 --> 2177.26]  Lord, there are many who are on vacation.
+[2177.26 --> 2186.76]  We pray that in their time of rest, wherever they may be, may they too be here with you today.
+[2187.46 --> 2194.08]  Lord, we pray for those who have difficulties coming here, either, Lord, because of sickness.
+[2197.32 --> 2202.50]  Lord, for other reasons also, their hearts may be hardened and don't want to be here.
+[2202.74 --> 2204.20]  Lord, be near to each one.
+[2204.20 --> 2205.28]  Be with those who are ill.
+[2207.26 --> 2210.38]  Lord, you know the circumstances of each person.
+[2210.58 --> 2212.54]  And we pray, Lord, for healing for them.
+[2216.08 --> 2219.94]  Lord, as one member in our family hurts, we hurt also.
+[2220.10 --> 2223.02]  And when one rejoices, may we rejoice with them.
+[2224.40 --> 2231.28]  Lord, we pray this morning for Bob.
+[2231.28 --> 2238.58]  Lord, we pray, Lord, that as he continues to deal with his cancer, that you would be near to him.
+[2241.26 --> 2242.64]  Lord, we pray for healing.
+[2243.60 --> 2245.40]  We pray for Willie, Lord, also.
+[2245.60 --> 2249.62]  And as he too deals with his health issues.
+[2249.62 --> 2254.40]  Miraculously, Lord, we pray that each one may experience your healing touch.
+[2258.08 --> 2260.74]  And Lord, this morning we also remember John Trask.
+[2262.62 --> 2267.12]  Lord, who continues to deal with the fall he had a week ago.
+[2268.40 --> 2272.88]  Lord, as many ribs were broken in his body and other health issues.
+[2272.88 --> 2278.96]  Lord, we thank you and praise you for the successful surgery that took place on Friday.
+[2281.74 --> 2284.20]  And now the long road that is ahead of him, Lord.
+[2284.24 --> 2287.58]  We pray that there may also be miraculous healing in his life also.
+[2290.66 --> 2294.86]  Lord, we pray for the spouses of each, Lord, as they stand beside their partners,
+[2294.86 --> 2298.32]  that they too would be carried through these difficult times.
+[2298.32 --> 2310.98]  Lord, we pray for the Miles family as they prepare to celebrate the life of their son, Mike, this coming Saturday.
+[2314.54 --> 2319.20]  Lord, through that difficult time also, we pray that you would carry them, be with them.
+[2320.32 --> 2327.94]  And as they come together as family and friends, may, Lord, be strength, be given, and comfort to each one.
+[2328.32 --> 2336.68]  And Lord, we pray for the many who are dealing with the fires still throughout our province.
+[2337.10 --> 2345.44]  And not only in our province, but throughout the country and other countries around the world, Lord, there is many challenges in this.
+[2346.14 --> 2349.20]  We pray for those who have been displaced.
+[2349.40 --> 2351.36]  We pray for those, Lord, who are fighting the fires.
+[2351.36 --> 2359.46]  Each one, Lord, may they experience strength, courage, and your presence.
+[2363.24 --> 2367.36]  Lord, we pray for our country also as we prepare for another election this fall.
+[2370.80 --> 2374.16]  Lord, times like this also present to us many questions.
+[2374.16 --> 2381.80]  And, Lord, often it is difficult for us to know and see how you want us to vote,
+[2382.68 --> 2390.16]  who you want to lead this country, and the various members that stand for election.
+[2390.36 --> 2393.36]  Lord, we pray for each one that they would seek you,
+[2394.02 --> 2400.28]  and that we too may see, Lord, through this, who you want to lead this country.
+[2400.28 --> 2407.28]  Lord, as we prepare to come to the end of our summer as well, and as school begins,
+[2408.00 --> 2412.84]  we pray for the students and staff, Lord, who prepare for this new year.
+[2415.52 --> 2419.88]  And, Lord, through the season of life that we have gone through the last couple of years with the pandemic,
+[2420.06 --> 2423.92]  again, still there are questions, perhaps, in how this new year will look.
+[2423.92 --> 2432.30]  Lord, we pray that there may be normalcy may come back into play again.
+[2432.40 --> 2435.70]  We pray that this too may end.
+[2439.64 --> 2447.48]  We pray, Lord, that you would be with the students and staff, Lord,
+[2447.56 --> 2452.74]  and that they too may be kept at peace and comfort through this time also.
+[2454.84 --> 2459.10]  Lord, we pray for our church.
+[2460.36 --> 2464.14]  Through all the season of life that we have and are going through, Lord,
+[2464.16 --> 2468.12]  may we continue to be a light in this community and all that we do and wherever we go.
+[2468.30 --> 2470.78]  Lord, may others see that you live in us.
+[2472.18 --> 2475.88]  We pray even today, Lord, that there may be many who turn their hearts to you.
+[2475.88 --> 2485.02]  Lord, we pray for many who struggle.
+[2485.62 --> 2487.34]  May we walk beside them.
+[2490.96 --> 2495.74]  Lord, would you give us the strength also to carry each one through their difficult times.
+[2495.74 --> 2507.46]  Lord, we pray for our council here.
+[2507.46 --> 2513.20]  As we lead this church, Lord, give us wisdom.
+[2514.66 --> 2520.36]  We pray for our pastors that they too would seek you,
+[2520.36 --> 2522.92]  that you would walk beside them in their work.
+[2524.08 --> 2527.74]  Lord, we pray for Kevin this morning as he brings us your word.
+[2531.32 --> 2532.82]  Give him the words to speak.
+[2533.06 --> 2534.76]  We pray, Lord, that you would open our hearts,
+[2534.84 --> 2535.82]  that we may hear them,
+[2537.28 --> 2540.18]  that we may act on them also.
+[2541.46 --> 2544.68]  Lord, we pray these things in your name.
+[2544.68 --> 2545.56]  Amen.
+[2570.36 --> 2571.28]  Good morning.
+[2572.28 --> 2572.86]  All right.
+[2572.96 --> 2574.40]  We are arranged up here.
+[2575.12 --> 2579.82]  Today, we are going to be looking at the topic of heaven and hell,
+[2579.94 --> 2581.60]  which, I mean, that's a big topic,
+[2581.90 --> 2584.46]  and it's got all sorts of thoughts in this room, I'm sure.
+[2584.54 --> 2586.78]  There's all sorts of ideas of what that could look like.
+[2587.20 --> 2589.24]  But we're going to focus on four questions,
+[2589.34 --> 2592.18]  because a couple people asked questions of heaven and hell,
+[2592.22 --> 2595.48]  and we're going to kind of just lump them into one message here this morning.
+[2595.56 --> 2597.34]  So the four questions we're going to look at is,
+[2597.94 --> 2598.90]  is hell real?
+[2600.08 --> 2601.18]  What is hell?
+[2601.52 --> 2602.52]  Just answer the first one.
+[2602.52 --> 2606.16]  What does the Bible actually say of heaven?
+[2606.16 --> 2610.54]  And why do we rarely talk about either from the pulpit?
+[2611.18 --> 2615.18]  Now, I'm sure we've all asked questions like this in our lives.
+[2615.24 --> 2616.94]  It's in some form or another.
+[2617.30 --> 2619.10]  At some point, it's only natural.
+[2619.10 --> 2624.72]  We see books like this one right here called Heaven is for Real.
+[2624.92 --> 2626.28]  Perhaps some of us have read it.
+[2626.90 --> 2630.14]  It's about a boy who, during an emergency appendectomy, died,
+[2630.24 --> 2632.46]  and he had an out-of-body experience.
+[2632.76 --> 2634.18]  He knew what was going on in the hospital.
+[2634.56 --> 2637.74]  He went to heaven, and then he was resuscitated back to earth,
+[2637.78 --> 2640.10]  and he lived to talk about his time in glory.
+[2640.12 --> 2642.24]  And we ask ourselves when we read a book like this,
+[2642.24 --> 2643.30]  Is that it?
+[2643.40 --> 2644.24]  Is that what it is?
+[2644.28 --> 2645.70]  Is that what heaven's like?
+[2645.84 --> 2646.38]  We're curious.
+[2647.20 --> 2648.44]  We're curious, of course.
+[2650.74 --> 2652.14]  We want to know the unknown.
+[2653.26 --> 2655.32]  If someone could definitively answer,
+[2655.74 --> 2658.64]  what does heaven and hell actually look like?
+[2659.06 --> 2660.20]  If someone could answer that question,
+[2660.24 --> 2663.22]  it would dramatically affect the way we live
+[2663.22 --> 2665.40]  and the things we do here on this earth.
+[2665.46 --> 2666.72]  At least, I hope it would.
+[2666.72 --> 2670.90]  So we're going to try to flesh this out a bunch this morning.
+[2671.10 --> 2673.18]  But I do know that this topic can be a little bit edgy.
+[2673.60 --> 2677.86]  There's some controversial opinions about hell and about heaven.
+[2678.38 --> 2681.46]  And so if we don't get to what you want us to get to today,
+[2681.52 --> 2684.08]  I encourage you, please, don't hesitate to reach out this week.
+[2684.34 --> 2687.48]  You can email me at josh at licrc.ca,
+[2688.10 --> 2691.14]  and I'm sure I'll answer all of your questions if you reach out.
+[2691.24 --> 2693.70]  I heard that joke just slayed last week.
+[2693.70 --> 2697.30]  And so I thought, well, I'm going to want a piece of that joy.
+[2698.66 --> 2700.48]  And also, then I don't have to write my own joke.
+[2700.64 --> 2702.48]  So that's like two birds with one stone.
+[2703.12 --> 2704.50]  Work harder, not smarter, right?
+[2705.32 --> 2706.72]  No, work smarter, not harder.
+[2707.38 --> 2708.40]  I did that wrong.
+[2708.52 --> 2709.60]  See, I need to work on this.
+[2710.86 --> 2714.44]  Anyways, we're going to look at questions of heaven and hell today
+[2714.44 --> 2715.42]  that were asked by you.
+[2715.48 --> 2716.26]  Is heaven real?
+[2716.92 --> 2717.52]  What is hell?
+[2719.58 --> 2722.06]  Why don't we talk about them from the pulpit?
+[2722.06 --> 2724.94]  So to start, read with me a passage from Matthew 25.
+[2725.14 --> 2728.10]  And I hope that this passage helps springboard this discussion a little bit.
+[2728.38 --> 2731.70]  We're going to read Matthew 25, 31 to 46.
+[2731.98 --> 2733.82]  And so whether you're here or you're at home,
+[2734.10 --> 2735.60]  I do encourage you, please pull out your Bible.
+[2735.70 --> 2736.50]  There's some in the back.
+[2737.04 --> 2738.64]  And read along with me.
+[2738.78 --> 2740.10]  Also, keep those Bibles close,
+[2740.16 --> 2741.66]  because while we're going to look at this passage,
+[2741.82 --> 2743.76]  we're going to bounce around the Bible a little bit today.
+[2743.76 --> 2746.68]  And so having that on your person is just a really good idea.
+[2746.68 --> 2751.08]  So, Matthew 25, verses 31 to 46.
+[2751.88 --> 2753.84]  Jesus is speaking here, and he says this.
+[2755.00 --> 2757.04]  When the Son of Man comes in his glory,
+[2757.72 --> 2759.30]  and all the angels with him,
+[2759.42 --> 2761.36]  he will sit on his glorious throne.
+[2761.98 --> 2764.16]  All the nations will be gathered before him,
+[2764.18 --> 2766.42]  and he will separate the people one from another,
+[2766.82 --> 2769.82]  as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats.
+[2769.94 --> 2773.32]  He will put the sheep on his right and the goats on his left.
+[2773.32 --> 2776.30]  Then the king will say to those on his right,
+[2776.46 --> 2778.20]  Come, you who are blessed by my Father.
+[2778.28 --> 2781.76]  Take your inheritance, the kingdom prepared for you
+[2781.76 --> 2782.96]  since the creation of the world.
+[2783.04 --> 2785.90]  For I was hungry, and you gave me something to eat.
+[2786.24 --> 2788.24]  I was thirsty, and you gave me something to drink.
+[2788.58 --> 2790.66]  I was a stranger, and you invited me in.
+[2791.02 --> 2792.80]  I need clothes, and you clothed me.
+[2792.94 --> 2794.68]  I was sick, and you looked after me.
+[2794.76 --> 2797.60]  I was in prison, and you came to visit me.
+[2798.64 --> 2800.28]  Then the righteous will answer and say,
+[2800.44 --> 2803.12]  Lord, when did we see you hungry and feed you?
+[2803.12 --> 2805.02]  Or thirsty and give you something to drink?
+[2805.08 --> 2807.98]  When did we see you a stranger and invite you in?
+[2808.04 --> 2809.80]  Or need clothes and clothes you?
+[2810.66 --> 2813.64]  When did we see you sick or in prison and go visit you?
+[2815.00 --> 2816.02]  And the king will reply,
+[2816.42 --> 2819.04]  Truly I tell you, whatever you did
+[2819.04 --> 2821.52]  for the least of these brothers and sisters of mine,
+[2822.02 --> 2823.54]  you did for me.
+[2825.14 --> 2826.76]  Then he will say to those on his left,
+[2826.76 --> 2829.68]  Depart from me, you who are cursed into the eternal fire,
+[2829.78 --> 2832.34]  prepared for the devil and his angels.
+[2832.34 --> 2835.44]  For I was hungry, and you gave me nothing to eat.
+[2835.88 --> 2838.38]  I was thirsty, and you gave me nothing to drink.
+[2838.44 --> 2841.04]  I was a stranger, and you did not invite me in.
+[2841.08 --> 2842.94]  I needed clothes, and you did not clothe me.
+[2843.14 --> 2847.50]  I was sick and in prison, and you did not look after me.
+[2849.56 --> 2850.66]  They also will answer,
+[2850.78 --> 2853.38]  Lord, when did we see you hungry or thirsty or a stranger
+[2853.38 --> 2855.52]  or needing clothes or sick or in prison
+[2855.52 --> 2857.10]  and did not help you?
+[2858.62 --> 2862.06]  He will reply, Truly I tell you,
+[2862.92 --> 2866.56]  whatever you did not do for one of the least of these,
+[2867.16 --> 2869.70]  you did not do for me.
+[2870.74 --> 2873.20]  And then they will go away to eternal punishment,
+[2873.62 --> 2876.62]  but they're righteous to eternal life.
+[2876.62 --> 2879.38]  The word of the Lord.
+[2882.16 --> 2884.02]  Heaven and hell, the kingdom of God,
+[2884.10 --> 2885.60]  and eternal punishment.
+[2886.20 --> 2889.36]  Now, I saw an illustration about 10 years ago
+[2889.36 --> 2891.04]  done by Francis Chan.
+[2892.38 --> 2893.48]  It's an amazing illustration,
+[2893.74 --> 2894.74]  and I want to steal it,
+[2894.78 --> 2896.44]  and I want to do it for you this morning here today.
+[2896.50 --> 2897.78]  In fact, I'm not sure.
+[2897.84 --> 2899.26]  I might have done this in a sermon already,
+[2899.34 --> 2901.42]  so it's possible all of you have seen this before,
+[2901.48 --> 2902.96]  but too bad, because it's really good,
+[2903.00 --> 2903.66]  and I'm going to do it again.
+[2903.66 --> 2905.46]  So here's a rope, right?
+[2905.52 --> 2906.24]  We see this rope?
+[2906.76 --> 2908.74]  This rope, it goes on forever.
+[2908.96 --> 2909.34]  It doesn't.
+[2909.44 --> 2910.08]  It ends behind a curtain,
+[2910.12 --> 2911.28]  but it just goes on forever.
+[2911.40 --> 2912.20]  Use your imagination.
+[2912.36 --> 2914.94]  This rope, it extends, and it never ends,
+[2914.96 --> 2915.96]  and it goes on forever.
+[2916.68 --> 2918.52]  And this little taped part here
+[2918.52 --> 2919.80]  is at the end of the rope.
+[2919.90 --> 2923.92]  Now, this rope represents your existence.
+[2924.90 --> 2926.82]  It represents your existence.
+[2927.04 --> 2928.30]  So God created you,
+[2928.64 --> 2931.82]  and now you exist forever, for eternity.
+[2931.82 --> 2934.72]  This little taped part here, though,
+[2934.78 --> 2935.78]  at the end of the rope,
+[2936.02 --> 2937.78]  this is your existence on Earth.
+[2938.46 --> 2939.48]  So you're born,
+[2939.84 --> 2940.74]  and then you go to school,
+[2941.24 --> 2942.38]  and you make some decisions,
+[2942.86 --> 2944.10]  and who knows what you do.
+[2944.14 --> 2945.04]  You get a job,
+[2945.08 --> 2946.28]  and you buy that nice car,
+[2946.38 --> 2947.24]  and then you retire,
+[2947.44 --> 2949.30]  and then eventually you die,
+[2950.00 --> 2951.34]  and then there's this.
+[2952.20 --> 2953.28]  All of this.
+[2954.42 --> 2956.52]  And Francis Chan's point in this illustration
+[2956.52 --> 2959.68]  is we spend so much of our time
+[2959.68 --> 2962.42]  on this Earth worried about this.
+[2964.06 --> 2966.00]  And we don't think about this.
+[2967.18 --> 2969.64]  We forget to think about the eternity
+[2969.64 --> 2971.74]  that follows this.
+[2972.80 --> 2974.56]  And I think that's what the question
+[2974.56 --> 2975.68]  is getting at this morning.
+[2975.84 --> 2978.76]  Why do we not talk about what this is?
+[2978.94 --> 2979.74]  What is this?
+[2979.86 --> 2980.58]  What is heaven?
+[2980.72 --> 2981.48]  What is hell?
+[2981.48 --> 2984.86]  And why do we spend so much time
+[2984.86 --> 2985.76]  talking about this?
+[2985.92 --> 2986.94]  So hold on to this.
+[2987.04 --> 2987.90]  We'll come back to it.
+[2989.26 --> 2991.34]  But let that sort of sink in your brains
+[2991.34 --> 2992.30]  for a little bit.
+[2995.10 --> 2996.86]  The first question we're going to get to first.
+[2996.96 --> 2998.02]  Is hell real?
+[2998.80 --> 2999.72]  Now this is a question
+[2999.72 --> 3001.70]  that's captured the imagination
+[3001.70 --> 3003.56]  of people honestly forever.
+[3004.52 --> 3004.96]  However,
+[3005.14 --> 3007.32]  what was once more of a black and white issue
+[3007.32 --> 3008.28]  for a long time
+[3008.28 --> 3010.20]  has definitely become more gray
+[3010.20 --> 3013.44]  over the last decade or so.
+[3013.98 --> 3015.54]  Especially out here in the West.
+[3015.64 --> 3017.58]  And while I think that graying is problematic,
+[3018.00 --> 3019.62]  it is nonetheless the case
+[3019.62 --> 3021.02]  of where we live.
+[3021.12 --> 3023.18]  Many Christians, in fact, right now
+[3023.18 --> 3024.92]  are not as sure
+[3024.92 --> 3026.72]  that hell is even a thing anymore.
+[3027.20 --> 3028.38]  A documentary came out.
+[3028.70 --> 3029.90]  It was called Hellbound.
+[3030.00 --> 3031.28]  It came out in 2012.
+[3032.08 --> 3033.90]  It should show up behind me on screen there.
+[3034.12 --> 3036.16]  It explores this issue.
+[3036.16 --> 3038.34]  It was actually filmed here in BC,
+[3038.52 --> 3039.00]  believe it or not.
+[3039.06 --> 3040.64]  So if you end up watching it,
+[3040.68 --> 3042.56]  you'll see little pieces of Abbotsford in there.
+[3043.30 --> 3044.22]  It became very popular.
+[3044.32 --> 3045.40]  It even made it to the big screen.
+[3046.20 --> 3047.72]  Hellbound, like all documentaries,
+[3048.06 --> 3049.28]  it's a pretty biased one.
+[3049.62 --> 3052.82]  But it explores three different views on hell
+[3052.82 --> 3054.80]  that Christians have.
+[3055.74 --> 3057.64]  These three views that they explore,
+[3057.82 --> 3059.66]  one is called annihilationism,
+[3059.96 --> 3061.46]  one is called universalism,
+[3061.80 --> 3062.74]  and then a third one
+[3062.74 --> 3064.64]  is the more traditional view of hell.
+[3064.64 --> 3067.30]  So, we'll pick out all three of them real quick.
+[3068.04 --> 3069.98]  Annihilationism gets the least screen time
+[3069.98 --> 3070.84]  in this documentary
+[3070.84 --> 3072.34]  because it's a view
+[3072.34 --> 3074.02]  that just isn't held by very many people.
+[3074.14 --> 3075.86]  But an annihilationist believes
+[3075.86 --> 3076.92]  that if you believe in Jesus,
+[3077.04 --> 3077.62]  you go to heaven.
+[3078.34 --> 3079.56]  If you don't believe in Jesus,
+[3080.10 --> 3081.16]  you just, you don't,
+[3081.26 --> 3082.64]  you don't go to hell.
+[3082.72 --> 3084.04]  You just sort of cease to be.
+[3085.14 --> 3085.90]  So there's no hell.
+[3085.98 --> 3087.10]  There's no eternal suffering.
+[3087.80 --> 3089.00]  An annihilationist just believes
+[3089.00 --> 3090.84]  you sort of just stop existing
+[3090.84 --> 3091.96]  in body and soul.
+[3092.06 --> 3093.18]  Like, poof, you're gone.
+[3093.18 --> 3094.26]  You're annihilated.
+[3094.82 --> 3095.18]  Annihilationism.
+[3095.50 --> 3096.88]  That's all we're going to talk about that one
+[3096.88 --> 3097.68]  because, like I said,
+[3097.70 --> 3098.50]  it's not very popular,
+[3098.62 --> 3099.54]  but it is one of the beliefs
+[3099.54 --> 3100.72]  in Christian circles right now.
+[3102.16 --> 3102.84]  Universalism is the one
+[3102.84 --> 3103.74]  we're going to talk about
+[3103.74 --> 3104.94]  a little bit longer.
+[3105.84 --> 3107.20]  A universalist believes
+[3107.20 --> 3109.36]  that heaven and hell are both real,
+[3109.96 --> 3111.80]  but everyone goes to heaven.
+[3113.10 --> 3114.08]  No one goes to hell.
+[3115.20 --> 3116.88]  They believe that God's grace is so great
+[3116.88 --> 3118.80]  that if you were an unbeliever when you die,
+[3118.86 --> 3120.08]  you would instantly realize
+[3120.08 --> 3121.88]  the terrible mistake you've made on this earth,
+[3121.88 --> 3123.44]  and that God would be gracious
+[3123.44 --> 3124.30]  in this afterlife,
+[3125.08 --> 3126.02]  and you'd enter the kingdom
+[3126.02 --> 3126.88]  of heaven forever.
+[3127.06 --> 3128.50]  Rob Bell writes a book
+[3128.50 --> 3129.80]  all about this.
+[3129.90 --> 3130.86]  Very popular book.
+[3130.96 --> 3131.94]  Again, I'm sure some of you
+[3131.94 --> 3133.36]  have read it called Love Wins.
+[3133.44 --> 3135.40]  It explores this thoroughly.
+[3135.80 --> 3137.02]  So it talks about how
+[3137.02 --> 3138.84]  his argument is that,
+[3138.96 --> 3140.18]  again, God's grace is big enough
+[3140.18 --> 3142.38]  that everybody goes to heaven.
+[3143.12 --> 3144.18]  Hellbound, that documentary
+[3144.18 --> 3144.96]  I mentioned as well,
+[3144.98 --> 3146.52]  it is biased to this direction.
+[3146.62 --> 3147.66]  That is the position,
+[3147.78 --> 3149.44]  the posture that it sort of pushes.
+[3149.44 --> 3151.72]  That makes sense.
+[3151.84 --> 3152.46]  That makes sense
+[3152.46 --> 3153.54]  that this book is being written.
+[3153.70 --> 3154.22]  That makes sense
+[3154.22 --> 3155.34]  that that documentary exists
+[3155.34 --> 3156.36]  because that makes sense
+[3156.36 --> 3157.38]  to our culture, doesn't it?
+[3157.56 --> 3158.58]  This is an extremely
+[3158.58 --> 3160.76]  attractive viewpoint, right?
+[3161.12 --> 3162.24]  Everyone goes to heaven,
+[3162.38 --> 3163.52]  no matter what they do,
+[3163.58 --> 3165.06]  no matter what they believe on earth,
+[3166.12 --> 3167.68]  especially out here in the West
+[3167.68 --> 3169.40]  where we live in this
+[3169.40 --> 3171.44]  extremely inclusive society,
+[3171.54 --> 3172.50]  or so we say we do.
+[3173.24 --> 3174.94]  We would be very attracted to this.
+[3175.62 --> 3177.38]  Our culture is very attracted to this.
+[3177.38 --> 3179.98]  It sure makes my rope illustration
+[3179.98 --> 3181.42]  useless, though, doesn't it?
+[3182.82 --> 3187.02]  Actually, it kind of makes life useless,
+[3187.54 --> 3188.48]  doesn't it?
+[3189.42 --> 3192.06]  Or God's missional calling
+[3192.06 --> 3193.50]  on our lives to go out
+[3193.50 --> 3194.76]  and make disciples.
+[3194.86 --> 3195.72]  What's the point?
+[3197.12 --> 3197.96]  Actually, it has a really
+[3197.96 --> 3200.54]  what's-the-point vibe everywhere
+[3200.54 --> 3201.68]  when you think about it, right?
+[3202.32 --> 3203.38]  It's universalism.
+[3203.38 --> 3205.84]  And thirdly,
+[3206.14 --> 3208.28]  there's the traditional view of hell.
+[3209.02 --> 3209.74]  And that's simply
+[3209.74 --> 3211.14]  the viewpoint
+[3211.14 --> 3212.44]  that if you believe in Jesus
+[3212.44 --> 3213.80]  as the author of your salvation
+[3213.80 --> 3214.52]  and you accept
+[3214.52 --> 3215.84]  his free gift of grace,
+[3216.22 --> 3217.42]  you go to heaven.
+[3218.26 --> 3219.80]  And if you reject that truth,
+[3219.88 --> 3220.76]  you go to hell.
+[3222.44 --> 3223.40]  That is not that fun.
+[3223.80 --> 3224.70]  That is not as fun
+[3224.70 --> 3225.50]  as universalism.
+[3226.30 --> 3227.90]  It does not seem very inclusive.
+[3227.90 --> 3231.84]  But I want to ask you today,
+[3231.88 --> 3233.34]  and I am posing this question for real.
+[3233.50 --> 3235.22]  I am not trying to be patronizing with this,
+[3235.58 --> 3236.66]  but if we read the text
+[3236.66 --> 3237.44]  that we read today,
+[3237.52 --> 3238.44]  the sheep and the goats,
+[3239.38 --> 3240.70]  or if we read any of the other
+[3240.70 --> 3241.76]  dozen or so times
+[3241.76 --> 3243.30]  that Jesus speaks of heaven and hell
+[3243.30 --> 3244.22]  in his gospels,
+[3244.78 --> 3247.22]  it's hard to think
+[3247.22 --> 3248.16]  that the traditional view
+[3248.16 --> 3249.36]  of hell is wrong, isn't it?
+[3249.36 --> 3252.96]  And maybe that makes us uncomfortable,
+[3253.24 --> 3254.62]  or perhaps that makes us anxious,
+[3255.26 --> 3257.56]  but just because we feel that way,
+[3257.82 --> 3258.64]  it doesn't mean
+[3258.64 --> 3261.56]  that we should just ignore it either,
+[3261.64 --> 3263.88]  or come up with some new way of thinking.
+[3264.68 --> 3264.92]  Right?
+[3266.18 --> 3267.54]  Again, I pose this honestly.
+[3268.10 --> 3268.82]  Francis Chan,
+[3268.98 --> 3270.28]  turns out I'm a big fan of his today,
+[3270.36 --> 3270.64]  apparently,
+[3271.28 --> 3272.44]  he writes this book
+[3272.44 --> 3273.98]  with a guy named Preston Sprinkle,
+[3274.20 --> 3275.24]  which is a great name.
+[3276.48 --> 3277.92]  It's called Erasing Hell.
+[3278.38 --> 3279.18]  It's called Erasing Hell
+[3279.18 --> 3280.80]  What God Said About Eternity
+[3280.80 --> 3283.00]  and the Things We've Made Up.
+[3284.18 --> 3284.78]  It's a good book.
+[3284.88 --> 3286.08]  It's in response to
+[3286.08 --> 3287.82]  the issue of universalism,
+[3287.92 --> 3289.26]  and they say in this book
+[3289.26 --> 3290.52]  that sometimes we don't want
+[3290.52 --> 3291.18]  to believe in hell.
+[3291.26 --> 3292.00]  It's a touchy subject.
+[3292.10 --> 3292.94]  We don't want to go near it.
+[3293.18 --> 3294.26]  But, and I quote them here,
+[3294.66 --> 3297.30]  we cannot afford to be wrong
+[3297.30 --> 3298.44]  about this issue.
+[3301.14 --> 3302.24]  The truth is,
+[3302.50 --> 3304.66]  when we read passages
+[3304.66 --> 3305.60]  like ours today,
+[3305.64 --> 3306.64]  it makes us uncomfortable
+[3306.64 --> 3308.10]  that God is going to judge people
+[3308.10 --> 3309.60]  at the end of their lives.
+[3309.66 --> 3311.00]  The sheep going to heaven,
+[3311.10 --> 3312.48]  the goats going to hell,
+[3312.56 --> 3314.66]  but the reality is
+[3314.66 --> 3316.50]  God is the judge of his creation.
+[3318.78 --> 3320.02]  And if we give it some thought,
+[3320.48 --> 3321.22]  that's okay.
+[3321.72 --> 3322.56]  In fact, that's good.
+[3324.00 --> 3324.88]  Peter Shackle says,
+[3324.98 --> 3326.12]  the image of a judge
+[3326.12 --> 3327.38]  imposing a sentence
+[3327.38 --> 3328.26]  upon the guilty
+[3328.26 --> 3330.82]  should vindicate God.
+[3331.76 --> 3332.62]  Not the opposite.
+[3332.62 --> 3335.34]  A judge in a courtroom is,
+[3335.42 --> 3337.10]  or at least ought to always be,
+[3337.66 --> 3339.34]  not a vindictive punisher,
+[3339.84 --> 3341.60]  but one who weighs evidence
+[3341.60 --> 3342.14]  objectively,
+[3342.34 --> 3344.18]  reaches conclusions impartially,
+[3344.18 --> 3346.36]  and imposes sentences
+[3346.36 --> 3347.20]  equitably.
+[3348.08 --> 3349.68]  The king in Jesus' parable
+[3349.68 --> 3350.56]  is not a prosecutor
+[3350.56 --> 3352.08]  accusing the defendants
+[3352.08 --> 3353.56]  and building a case against them.
+[3354.44 --> 3355.50]  The defendants
+[3355.50 --> 3356.64]  have already been found guilty.
+[3356.76 --> 3358.20]  Their deeds have been,
+[3359.04 --> 3360.04]  or have condemned them.
+[3360.04 --> 3363.76]  Their life has condemned them.
+[3364.14 --> 3364.36]  God,
+[3364.94 --> 3366.84]  God is the ultimate judge.
+[3366.96 --> 3368.40]  We are not.
+[3368.82 --> 3370.36]  We don't decide
+[3370.36 --> 3371.36]  what heaven is,
+[3371.42 --> 3372.52]  or what hell is,
+[3372.58 --> 3373.94]  or who gets to go,
+[3374.12 --> 3375.62]  or what people will be
+[3375.62 --> 3376.24]  ending up doing
+[3376.24 --> 3376.90]  in their eternity.
+[3377.04 --> 3377.20]  No.
+[3377.76 --> 3379.16]  God does.
+[3380.14 --> 3381.12]  There's no use for us
+[3381.12 --> 3382.14]  to design some sort of
+[3382.14 --> 3382.98]  new rubric
+[3382.98 --> 3383.88]  for judgment
+[3383.88 --> 3384.66]  in a cosmos
+[3384.66 --> 3385.28]  that honestly
+[3385.28 --> 3386.50]  we barely understand,
+[3386.60 --> 3387.46]  let alone function
+[3387.46 --> 3388.38]  adequately in.
+[3390.04 --> 3392.04]  He is the ultimate judge.
+[3392.10 --> 3392.84]  He is the ultimate
+[3392.84 --> 3394.70]  fair judge.
+[3395.42 --> 3396.50]  It's His universe.
+[3399.30 --> 3399.60]  So,
+[3400.60 --> 3401.74]  hell is real,
+[3402.30 --> 3403.28]  and heaven is real,
+[3403.40 --> 3405.34]  but what are they exactly?
+[3405.56 --> 3406.34]  Question number two.
+[3406.98 --> 3408.60]  What is hell?
+[3409.36 --> 3410.36]  Great question.
+[3410.82 --> 3411.96]  Borderline unanswerable.
+[3412.08 --> 3412.66]  But let's try.
+[3413.58 --> 3414.16]  Like I said,
+[3414.24 --> 3415.94]  Jesus does speak of hell
+[3415.94 --> 3417.46]  quite a bit in the Gospels.
+[3417.46 --> 3417.66]  So,
+[3418.02 --> 3418.72]  take for example
+[3418.72 --> 3419.46]  Matthew 11,
+[3419.58 --> 3420.46]  23 to 24.
+[3420.58 --> 3421.32]  I didn't slap that up
+[3421.32 --> 3422.12]  on the screen behind me,
+[3422.18 --> 3422.90]  so you're going to have to look
+[3422.90 --> 3424.02]  at your own Bibles for this one.
+[3424.58 --> 3424.84]  Jesus,
+[3424.96 --> 3426.24]  He's speaking about towns
+[3426.24 --> 3427.22]  and people who have seen
+[3427.22 --> 3427.84]  and heard Him
+[3427.84 --> 3429.28]  and heard the message,
+[3429.40 --> 3430.22]  the Gospel message,
+[3430.56 --> 3432.24]  but they are unrepentant
+[3432.24 --> 3432.70]  and they're stuck
+[3432.70 --> 3433.74]  in their wickedness
+[3433.74 --> 3434.94]  and they choose sin over Him.
+[3435.18 --> 3436.00]  And Jesus says
+[3436.00 --> 3437.02]  in Matthew 11,
+[3437.10 --> 3438.08]  23 to 24,
+[3438.52 --> 3439.64]  to the city of Capernaum,
+[3439.68 --> 3440.58]  which is not a good city,
+[3440.96 --> 3441.32]  and you,
+[3441.42 --> 3441.90]  Capernaum,
+[3442.60 --> 3442.90]  you,
+[3443.10 --> 3444.08]  or will you be lifted
+[3444.08 --> 3444.66]  to the heavens?
+[3445.56 --> 3445.90]  No,
+[3446.70 --> 3447.76]  you will go down
+[3447.76 --> 3448.42]  to Hades.
+[3449.84 --> 3450.78]  For if the miracles
+[3450.78 --> 3451.58]  that were performed
+[3451.58 --> 3452.16]  in you
+[3452.16 --> 3452.82]  had been performed
+[3452.82 --> 3453.44]  in Sodom,
+[3453.56 --> 3454.24]  if you remember Sodom
+[3454.24 --> 3454.72]  and Gomorrah
+[3454.72 --> 3455.38]  in the Old Testament,
+[3456.00 --> 3456.84]  Sodom would have remained
+[3456.84 --> 3457.48]  to this day.
+[3458.36 --> 3459.04]  But I tell you
+[3459.04 --> 3459.52]  that it would be
+[3459.52 --> 3460.76]  more bearable for Sodom
+[3460.76 --> 3461.60]  on the day of judgment
+[3461.60 --> 3462.22]  than for you.
+[3463.56 --> 3464.48]  You would go down
+[3464.48 --> 3464.96]  to Hades.
+[3465.08 --> 3465.92]  We read the word Hades
+[3465.92 --> 3466.62]  in our Bibles,
+[3466.92 --> 3467.32]  but in Greek,
+[3467.44 --> 3468.60]  Jesus uses the word
+[3468.60 --> 3470.02]  Gehenna here.
+[3471.04 --> 3471.28]  Now,
+[3471.30 --> 3472.52]  this is not the only place
+[3472.52 --> 3473.64]  that Jesus speaks of hell.
+[3473.70 --> 3474.28]  He speaks of hell
+[3474.28 --> 3475.12]  throughout the Gospels,
+[3475.28 --> 3476.40]  like Mark 9,
+[3476.52 --> 3477.46]  43 to 48,
+[3477.74 --> 3478.62]  or Luke 10,
+[3478.82 --> 3479.76]  12 to 15,
+[3479.84 --> 3480.74]  or John 15,
+[3481.08 --> 3481.54]  verse 6,
+[3481.58 --> 3482.38]  and over half a dozen
+[3482.38 --> 3483.44]  other times.
+[3483.96 --> 3485.86]  And Jesus often uses
+[3485.86 --> 3487.40]  the word Gehenna
+[3487.40 --> 3489.60]  to describe hell.
+[3491.06 --> 3491.32]  Now,
+[3491.36 --> 3491.92]  what's interesting
+[3491.92 --> 3492.64]  is Gehenna
+[3492.64 --> 3493.64]  is an actual place.
+[3493.72 --> 3494.32]  It is a real,
+[3494.58 --> 3495.50]  physical place,
+[3495.54 --> 3496.24]  and it's a reference
+[3496.24 --> 3497.02]  that not only
+[3497.02 --> 3498.08]  would have Jesus' readers
+[3498.08 --> 3498.48]  under,
+[3498.56 --> 3499.12]  or a listener,
+[3499.26 --> 3499.42]  sorry,
+[3499.54 --> 3500.00]  understood,
+[3500.56 --> 3501.24]  but a lot of them
+[3501.24 --> 3501.96]  probably would have
+[3501.96 --> 3502.68]  been there before.
+[3503.84 --> 3505.20]  Gehenna is this valley
+[3505.20 --> 3507.64]  where ancient and evil
+[3507.64 --> 3508.86]  Old Testament kings
+[3508.86 --> 3510.42]  sacrificed babies
+[3510.42 --> 3511.38]  to false gods.
+[3513.00 --> 3513.84]  In the Old Testament,
+[3513.96 --> 3515.02]  the good king Josiah
+[3515.02 --> 3516.14]  eventually outlawed
+[3516.14 --> 3517.22]  child sacrifice,
+[3517.40 --> 3518.14]  which, you know,
+[3518.22 --> 3519.08]  good for him.
+[3520.30 --> 3521.76]  But the physical valley
+[3521.76 --> 3522.46]  where all of these
+[3522.46 --> 3524.22]  horrific acts took place,
+[3524.30 --> 3525.20]  they still existed
+[3525.20 --> 3526.14]  in Jesus' day.
+[3526.64 --> 3527.66]  It had actually become
+[3527.66 --> 3528.36]  a dump.
+[3529.58 --> 3530.40]  The Gehenna Valley
+[3530.40 --> 3531.28]  turned into a dump
+[3531.28 --> 3533.46]  where people burned garbage
+[3533.46 --> 3534.54]  and the dead animals
+[3534.54 --> 3536.00]  that died in their flocks.
+[3536.08 --> 3537.78]  It was always smoking
+[3537.78 --> 3538.76]  and on fire
+[3538.76 --> 3540.10]  and just reeked
+[3540.10 --> 3540.94]  of hot garbage
+[3540.94 --> 3542.10]  and smoldering death.
+[3542.56 --> 3543.82]  That's what Gehenna was.
+[3544.72 --> 3545.84]  A smoldering pit
+[3545.84 --> 3546.92]  of decay
+[3546.92 --> 3548.18]  and repugnancies.
+[3548.92 --> 3549.40]  And that
+[3549.40 --> 3550.68]  was the image
+[3550.68 --> 3551.82]  that Jesus went to
+[3551.82 --> 3552.88]  time and time again
+[3552.88 --> 3553.82]  when he spoke of hell.
+[3553.82 --> 3557.26]  Now, I don't think
+[3557.26 --> 3557.76]  it's a secret
+[3557.76 --> 3558.74]  that Jesus is using
+[3558.74 --> 3560.02]  Gehenna symbolically here.
+[3560.08 --> 3560.50]  If you die,
+[3560.56 --> 3561.14]  you don't end up
+[3561.14 --> 3562.92]  going to this dump.
+[3563.50 --> 3564.84]  But when he references hell,
+[3564.92 --> 3566.30]  he uses it to symbolize
+[3566.30 --> 3567.16]  what hell is,
+[3567.20 --> 3568.00]  which makes sense.
+[3568.08 --> 3569.52]  However, by using symbols,
+[3569.66 --> 3570.94]  what that doesn't do for us
+[3570.94 --> 3572.36]  is paint this beautiful
+[3572.36 --> 3573.12]  literal picture
+[3573.12 --> 3573.80]  of what hell
+[3573.80 --> 3574.70]  actually looks like.
+[3575.18 --> 3576.72]  So we often think of hell
+[3576.72 --> 3577.70]  as lakes of fire
+[3577.70 --> 3578.48]  and brimstone,
+[3578.60 --> 3579.64]  but many have taken
+[3579.64 --> 3580.88]  a very creative approach
+[3580.88 --> 3582.36]  to what hell could be.
+[3582.36 --> 3584.78]  Perhaps none are more famous
+[3584.78 --> 3586.50]  than Dante's interpretation.
+[3587.42 --> 3589.06]  Anybody heard Dante's Inferno?
+[3589.20 --> 3589.66]  Hands up.
+[3589.94 --> 3590.88]  Is that a popular thing?
+[3591.24 --> 3592.26]  Four people only?
+[3592.70 --> 3593.02]  Really?
+[3593.30 --> 3594.32]  I don't believe it.
+[3594.84 --> 3595.64]  People are not
+[3595.64 --> 3596.80]  raising their hands.
+[3597.20 --> 3597.80]  It's this big,
+[3597.96 --> 3598.80]  giant poem,
+[3598.94 --> 3599.86]  Dante's Inferno.
+[3599.94 --> 3601.02]  There's a movie based on it.
+[3601.06 --> 3601.88]  There's a video game
+[3601.88 --> 3602.44]  based on it.
+[3602.52 --> 3603.40]  There's paintings
+[3603.40 --> 3604.24]  and literature.
+[3604.64 --> 3605.28]  Very popular.
+[3605.40 --> 3606.00]  In his poem,
+[3606.74 --> 3607.58]  hell is depicted
+[3607.58 --> 3609.40]  as nine concentric
+[3609.40 --> 3610.56]  circles of torment
+[3610.56 --> 3611.88]  located within the earth.
+[3611.88 --> 3613.48]  And as you spiral down,
+[3613.96 --> 3615.22]  the sins of humanity
+[3615.22 --> 3615.84]  are worse
+[3615.84 --> 3616.40]  and therefore
+[3616.40 --> 3617.18]  the punishments
+[3617.18 --> 3617.74]  are worse.
+[3618.20 --> 3618.58]  And so,
+[3618.78 --> 3620.20]  there's violent storms
+[3620.20 --> 3621.10]  in the second ring
+[3621.10 --> 3622.16]  for those kind of sinners
+[3622.16 --> 3622.88]  but not so bad.
+[3622.94 --> 3624.20]  There's storms there for them.
+[3624.54 --> 3625.34]  Rivers of fire
+[3625.34 --> 3625.88]  in the fifth.
+[3625.96 --> 3626.52]  Now we're talking
+[3626.52 --> 3627.32]  about real torture.
+[3628.12 --> 3629.16]  Flaming tombs
+[3629.16 --> 3630.10]  in the sixth rings.
+[3630.20 --> 3630.70]  We're going down
+[3630.70 --> 3631.16]  even further.
+[3631.28 --> 3632.18]  And in the bottom level,
+[3632.52 --> 3633.96]  the ninth circle of hell,
+[3634.30 --> 3635.60]  there are frozen lakes
+[3635.60 --> 3636.26]  of ice
+[3636.26 --> 3637.44]  which people are stuck in
+[3637.44 --> 3638.66]  for the rest of time.
+[3639.20 --> 3640.58]  That is Dante's take
+[3640.58 --> 3641.10]  on hell.
+[3641.40 --> 3641.88]  Others view it
+[3641.88 --> 3642.40]  quite differently.
+[3643.46 --> 3645.26]  Rabbi Haim told a parable
+[3645.26 --> 3646.48]  saying that all inhabitants
+[3646.48 --> 3648.32]  of hell are given access
+[3648.32 --> 3649.06]  to good food.
+[3649.86 --> 3650.94]  But the utensils
+[3650.94 --> 3651.64]  that they are given
+[3651.64 --> 3652.72]  are far too long
+[3652.72 --> 3653.44]  and unwieldy
+[3653.44 --> 3654.54]  to serve oneself with.
+[3654.62 --> 3655.60]  You can't get the food
+[3655.60 --> 3656.18]  in your mouth.
+[3656.74 --> 3657.64]  But rather than help
+[3657.64 --> 3658.56]  each other out in hell,
+[3658.62 --> 3659.86]  we're all selfish down there,
+[3659.86 --> 3661.12]  you just struggle
+[3661.12 --> 3662.60]  with this long spoon
+[3662.60 --> 3663.90]  and never get to enjoy
+[3663.90 --> 3665.20]  the sustenance down there
+[3665.20 --> 3667.46]  and you constantly starve.
+[3669.26 --> 3669.80]  C.S. Lewis,
+[3669.94 --> 3670.28]  in his book
+[3670.28 --> 3670.98]  The Great Divorce,
+[3671.00 --> 3671.64]  he paints a picture
+[3671.64 --> 3672.26]  of what he thinks
+[3672.26 --> 3672.78]  hell is like.
+[3673.12 --> 3673.94]  He imagines hell
+[3673.94 --> 3675.00]  as this gray city
+[3675.00 --> 3676.98]  where it's always rainy.
+[3677.48 --> 3678.48]  It's always gloomy.
+[3678.56 --> 3679.54]  The streets are empty.
+[3680.08 --> 3680.64]  They're lined
+[3680.64 --> 3682.00]  with dingy houses,
+[3682.38 --> 3683.76]  small tobacco shops,
+[3683.92 --> 3685.06]  windowless warehouses.
+[3685.82 --> 3686.98]  The citizens of hell,
+[3687.12 --> 3688.00]  they're quarrelsome.
+[3688.12 --> 3689.32]  They fight all the time.
+[3689.38 --> 3689.78]  And the streets
+[3689.78 --> 3690.76]  actually are quite empty
+[3690.76 --> 3691.82]  because the residents
+[3691.82 --> 3692.66]  keep moving further
+[3692.66 --> 3693.32]  and further away
+[3693.32 --> 3693.82]  from each other
+[3693.82 --> 3694.48]  because they can't
+[3694.48 --> 3694.94]  stop fighting.
+[3695.20 --> 3697.04]  Interestingly,
+[3697.30 --> 3698.80]  C.S. Lewis thinks
+[3698.80 --> 3699.52]  the residents of hell,
+[3699.56 --> 3700.62]  they can construct a house
+[3700.62 --> 3702.86]  or even various commodities
+[3702.86 --> 3703.96]  just by thinking of them,
+[3704.20 --> 3705.08]  which I find fascinating.
+[3705.22 --> 3706.60]  But the houses
+[3706.60 --> 3707.44]  that they think up
+[3707.44 --> 3709.00]  and the sustenance
+[3709.00 --> 3710.50]  that they think of
+[3710.50 --> 3711.00]  aren't good.
+[3711.24 --> 3712.24]  The houses they think up
+[3712.24 --> 3713.46]  don't keep out the rain
+[3713.46 --> 3714.20]  or the intruders
+[3714.20 --> 3714.88]  and the sustenance
+[3714.88 --> 3715.76]  they think up is gross
+[3715.76 --> 3716.96]  and it doesn't satisfy anything.
+[3717.50 --> 3718.30]  It's a tiny town.
+[3718.82 --> 3719.56]  There's nothing to do.
+[3720.38 --> 3721.20]  There's nothing to see.
+[3723.92 --> 3725.06]  Three different pictures
+[3725.06 --> 3725.42]  of hell.
+[3725.42 --> 3726.62]  Who knows?
+[3727.42 --> 3728.48]  But the truth is,
+[3728.54 --> 3729.32]  what hell looks like
+[3729.32 --> 3730.14]  is anyone's guess.
+[3730.22 --> 3731.24]  But what we do know
+[3731.24 --> 3732.88]  about hell
+[3732.88 --> 3733.60]  is that God
+[3733.60 --> 3735.40]  is not there.
+[3737.40 --> 3739.22]  And if God is not there,
+[3740.38 --> 3740.76]  hope
+[3740.76 --> 3742.36]  is lost.
+[3743.50 --> 3744.84]  Love does not exist.
+[3746.44 --> 3747.60]  Selfishness would reign.
+[3747.60 --> 3750.64]  And that in and of itself
+[3750.64 --> 3752.10]  is torturous enough.
+[3753.24 --> 3754.60]  It's a smoldering pit
+[3754.60 --> 3755.36]  of decay
+[3755.36 --> 3757.24]  and repugnancies.
+[3758.52 --> 3759.02]  So whether hell
+[3759.02 --> 3760.02]  is a sea of sulfur
+[3760.02 --> 3762.36]  or spirals of torture
+[3762.36 --> 3763.36]  or a kitchen
+[3763.36 --> 3763.96]  with spoons
+[3763.96 --> 3764.72]  that are too big
+[3764.72 --> 3766.76]  or a long,
+[3767.14 --> 3767.96]  tiny,
+[3768.44 --> 3768.78]  gloomy,
+[3768.96 --> 3769.56]  gray town,
+[3770.96 --> 3772.38]  hell has no God.
+[3772.84 --> 3773.88]  And without God,
+[3774.54 --> 3775.98]  you don't want to be there.
+[3775.98 --> 3778.94]  Let's switch.
+[3779.06 --> 3779.80]  Let's switch gears.
+[3779.90 --> 3780.30]  What's heaven?
+[3780.46 --> 3781.26]  What's heaven then?
+[3781.52 --> 3782.26]  Let's talk about
+[3782.26 --> 3782.88]  something nice.
+[3783.54 --> 3784.42]  The Bible paints
+[3784.42 --> 3785.46]  some awesome pictures
+[3785.46 --> 3786.14]  of heaven
+[3786.14 --> 3787.64]  in the book of Revelation.
+[3788.64 --> 3789.08]  Again,
+[3789.14 --> 3790.06]  there's some symbolism here,
+[3790.12 --> 3791.08]  but listen to the words
+[3791.08 --> 3792.50]  of Revelation 21,
+[3792.76 --> 3793.90]  verses 1 to 5.
+[3794.14 --> 3794.70]  And I think that's
+[3794.70 --> 3795.20]  behind me there.
+[3795.24 --> 3795.70]  Yes, perfect.
+[3795.70 --> 3796.88]  It says,
+[3796.88 --> 3798.40]  Then I saw a new heaven
+[3798.40 --> 3799.28]  and a new earth,
+[3799.40 --> 3800.22]  for the first heaven
+[3800.22 --> 3801.42]  and the first earth
+[3801.42 --> 3802.26]  had passed away,
+[3802.58 --> 3803.64]  and there was no longer
+[3803.64 --> 3804.22]  any sea.
+[3805.00 --> 3806.20]  I saw the holy city,
+[3806.60 --> 3807.46]  the new Jerusalem,
+[3807.66 --> 3809.02]  coming down out of heaven
+[3809.02 --> 3809.70]  from God,
+[3810.24 --> 3811.46]  prepared as a bride,
+[3812.22 --> 3812.98]  beautifully dressed
+[3812.98 --> 3813.60]  for her husband.
+[3814.44 --> 3815.52]  And I heard a loud voice
+[3815.52 --> 3816.26]  from the throne saying,
+[3816.34 --> 3816.52]  Look,
+[3816.98 --> 3818.02]  God's dwelling place
+[3818.02 --> 3819.20]  is now among the people,
+[3819.24 --> 3820.46]  and he will dwell with them.
+[3820.68 --> 3821.78]  They will be his people,
+[3821.86 --> 3822.62]  and God himself
+[3822.62 --> 3823.40]  will be with them
+[3823.40 --> 3824.60]  and be their God.
+[3824.60 --> 3826.66]  He will wipe every tear
+[3826.66 --> 3827.52]  from their eyes.
+[3827.86 --> 3828.96]  There will be no more death
+[3828.96 --> 3829.74]  or mourning
+[3829.74 --> 3831.40]  or crying or pain,
+[3831.78 --> 3833.02]  for the old order
+[3833.02 --> 3834.14]  of things has passed.
+[3835.32 --> 3835.94]  He who was seated
+[3835.94 --> 3836.72]  on the throne said,
+[3836.82 --> 3838.24]  I am making everything new.
+[3838.78 --> 3839.16]  And then he said,
+[3839.22 --> 3839.88]  Write this down,
+[3839.96 --> 3841.08]  for these words
+[3841.08 --> 3843.34]  are trustworthy and true.
+[3844.08 --> 3845.32]  If you go one chapter further,
+[3845.40 --> 3846.44]  read the first five verses
+[3846.44 --> 3847.52]  of Revelation 22.
+[3847.94 --> 3849.60]  It continues and says,
+[3849.66 --> 3850.78]  The angel showed me,
+[3850.86 --> 3851.88]  this is the writer John,
+[3852.46 --> 3853.82]  the angel showed me
+[3853.82 --> 3855.68]  the river of water of life,
+[3855.88 --> 3857.24]  as clear as crystal,
+[3857.38 --> 3859.00]  flowing from the throne of God,
+[3859.16 --> 3860.78]  and of the lamb down the middle
+[3860.78 --> 3862.36]  of the great street of the city.
+[3862.66 --> 3863.98]  On each side of the river
+[3863.98 --> 3865.34]  stood the tree of life,
+[3865.86 --> 3867.62]  bearing twelve crops of fruit,
+[3867.74 --> 3869.34]  yielding its fruit every month.
+[3869.70 --> 3870.92]  And the leaves of the tree
+[3870.92 --> 3872.46]  are for the healing of the nations.
+[3872.72 --> 3874.58]  No longer will there be any curse.
+[3875.14 --> 3876.14]  The throne of God
+[3876.14 --> 3877.72]  and of the lamb
+[3877.72 --> 3878.68]  will be in the city,
+[3878.82 --> 3880.26]  and his servants will serve him.
+[3880.26 --> 3881.40]  They will see his face,
+[3881.48 --> 3882.48]  and his name will be
+[3882.48 --> 3883.42]  on their foreheads.
+[3883.72 --> 3885.04]  There will be no more night.
+[3885.82 --> 3886.78]  They will not need
+[3886.78 --> 3888.02]  the light of a lamp
+[3888.02 --> 3889.04]  or the light of the sun,
+[3889.10 --> 3889.92]  for the Lord God
+[3889.92 --> 3890.74]  will give them light,
+[3890.90 --> 3891.66]  and they will reign
+[3891.66 --> 3893.54]  forever and ever.
+[3895.22 --> 3896.56]  When I read these examples,
+[3896.64 --> 3897.34]  this is what I read.
+[3898.54 --> 3899.78]  Heaven is a beautiful city,
+[3900.28 --> 3901.36]  surrounded by rivers
+[3901.36 --> 3902.80]  and trees and gardens.
+[3903.12 --> 3904.98]  We will dwell with God there.
+[3905.78 --> 3906.96]  There will be no more sadness,
+[3906.96 --> 3908.06]  no more grief,
+[3908.50 --> 3909.88]  no more anxiety,
+[3910.44 --> 3911.08]  or depression,
+[3911.50 --> 3912.20]  or illness,
+[3912.44 --> 3914.02]  or pain of any kind.
+[3915.16 --> 3915.96]  There will be life,
+[3916.90 --> 3917.76]  not just human life,
+[3917.84 --> 3918.80]  but life of all kinds,
+[3918.94 --> 3920.66]  rivers as clear as crystal,
+[3920.80 --> 3922.00]  trees thriving
+[3922.00 --> 3922.82]  and more abundant
+[3922.82 --> 3924.24]  than any we have ever seen.
+[3924.48 --> 3926.08]  There will be food and drink
+[3926.08 --> 3927.66]  and unending sustenance,
+[3927.74 --> 3929.56]  no more hunger or thirst.
+[3930.20 --> 3931.10]  All wounds,
+[3931.80 --> 3932.84]  physical and emotional,
+[3932.96 --> 3934.34]  will fully be healed,
+[3934.34 --> 3936.28]  and no memory of pain
+[3936.28 --> 3937.18]  will ever exist.
+[3938.58 --> 3939.34]  We will be marked
+[3939.34 --> 3940.28]  as God's children,
+[3940.42 --> 3942.02]  children of a perfect Father,
+[3942.14 --> 3944.68]  fully under His wonderful care.
+[3944.78 --> 3946.24]  There will be no darkness,
+[3946.90 --> 3947.84]  no temptation,
+[3948.08 --> 3948.64]  no guilt,
+[3948.82 --> 3949.62]  no shame,
+[3950.12 --> 3951.28]  and no fear.
+[3952.78 --> 3954.66]  Only love and fulfillment
+[3954.66 --> 3956.74]  and peace and light.
+[3957.48 --> 3959.18]  Isn't that amazing?
+[3961.82 --> 3962.84]  Now, right now,
+[3962.84 --> 3963.96]  when we die,
+[3964.12 --> 3965.26]  our souls go to be
+[3965.26 --> 3966.32]  with Jesus in heaven,
+[3966.80 --> 3967.54]  which is amazing.
+[3969.06 --> 3970.80]  But when Jesus comes again,
+[3971.34 --> 3972.58]  at the end of time,
+[3973.14 --> 3974.50]  that heaven will come down,
+[3974.56 --> 3975.58]  and there will be a new heaven
+[3975.58 --> 3976.46]  and a new earth,
+[3976.70 --> 3978.22]  and our souls will join
+[3978.22 --> 3979.36]  our bodies.
+[3981.04 --> 3982.34]  And then we will dance
+[3982.34 --> 3983.94]  and laugh and swim
+[3983.94 --> 3985.28]  and play and rest
+[3985.28 --> 3986.32]  and read and eat
+[3986.32 --> 3987.34]  and drink and sing
+[3987.34 --> 3989.24]  and pick a verb
+[3989.24 --> 3990.08]  that you love doing.
+[3990.08 --> 3992.80]  and we'll be fully able
+[3992.80 --> 3994.08]  to enjoy the things
+[3994.08 --> 3995.00]  of this earth
+[3995.00 --> 3995.68]  that we love
+[3995.68 --> 3997.34]  without needing to worry
+[3997.34 --> 3998.48]  about the dark things
+[3998.48 --> 3999.26]  in our life
+[3999.26 --> 4001.14]  ever again.
+[4007.36 --> 4008.64]  And we won't have to worry
+[4008.64 --> 4009.00]  about them
+[4009.00 --> 4009.74]  for all of eternity.
+[4009.74 --> 4014.36]  All of this,
+[4015.22 --> 4016.72]  according to the word of God,
+[4017.20 --> 4017.96]  is trustworthy
+[4017.96 --> 4019.34]  and true.
+[4022.42 --> 4023.54]  So if heaven and hell
+[4023.54 --> 4024.04]  are real,
+[4024.46 --> 4025.18]  why don't we talk
+[4025.18 --> 4026.04]  about them that often?
+[4027.12 --> 4028.12]  Why don't we talk about them
+[4028.12 --> 4028.68]  from the pulpit?
+[4029.94 --> 4031.02]  This is another good question.
+[4032.38 --> 4033.18]  It's also one that I
+[4033.18 --> 4034.82]  think is relative,
+[4035.02 --> 4035.90]  how often is often.
+[4036.06 --> 4036.86]  I think it is mentioned,
+[4037.02 --> 4038.62]  but perhaps we don't talk
+[4038.62 --> 4039.28]  about it that often.
+[4039.36 --> 4040.02]  And I think there are
+[4040.02 --> 4040.70]  reasons why.
+[4040.92 --> 4041.62]  I think there's actually
+[4041.62 --> 4042.52]  two reasons why.
+[4044.30 --> 4045.02]  Reason number one,
+[4045.08 --> 4045.56]  for those of you
+[4045.56 --> 4046.42]  who are sitting here
+[4046.42 --> 4047.88]  or who are watching online,
+[4049.12 --> 4050.40]  who have put their faith
+[4050.40 --> 4051.20]  in Jesus Christ
+[4051.20 --> 4051.94]  as their savior,
+[4052.74 --> 4053.96]  the reason that we don't
+[4053.96 --> 4055.22]  discuss heaven or hell
+[4055.22 --> 4056.32]  all that often to you
+[4056.32 --> 4057.78]  is because you're
+[4057.78 --> 4058.74]  already saved.
+[4059.94 --> 4060.62]  The truth is,
+[4060.90 --> 4061.50]  while these things
+[4061.50 --> 4062.08]  are maybe fun
+[4062.08 --> 4062.92]  and interesting to discuss,
+[4063.00 --> 4063.88]  if you put your faith
+[4063.88 --> 4064.46]  in Jesus,
+[4064.78 --> 4066.14]  your salvation from hell
+[4066.14 --> 4067.36]  and a promised eternity
+[4067.36 --> 4067.96]  with God
+[4067.96 --> 4068.82]  is already
+[4068.82 --> 4069.84]  a concrete reality
+[4069.84 --> 4070.32]  for you.
+[4070.86 --> 4071.46]  There's no need
+[4071.46 --> 4072.28]  to discuss hell
+[4072.28 --> 4073.10]  if you believe
+[4073.10 --> 4073.78]  because hell isn't
+[4073.78 --> 4074.76]  even within your grasp.
+[4075.52 --> 4076.80]  Jesus has already
+[4076.80 --> 4077.64]  saved the world.
+[4078.44 --> 4079.20]  It's just not been
+[4079.20 --> 4080.22]  fully revealed yet.
+[4080.46 --> 4081.94]  It's already not yet.
+[4082.36 --> 4083.72]  Jesus lived on this earth
+[4083.72 --> 4084.80]  the sinless life
+[4084.80 --> 4085.58]  that we have all
+[4085.58 --> 4086.42]  failed to live.
+[4086.62 --> 4087.34]  And then he died
+[4087.34 --> 4088.34]  a death on the cross
+[4088.34 --> 4089.98]  that we all deserve to die
+[4089.98 --> 4092.56]  so that we wouldn't have to.
+[4093.52 --> 4094.98]  He atoned for our sinfulness.
+[4095.32 --> 4096.84]  He was raised from the dead
+[4096.84 --> 4097.82]  and he has defeated
+[4097.82 --> 4099.70]  sin and death forever.
+[4099.70 --> 4100.72]  For you and I
+[4100.72 --> 4101.70]  and all who believe
+[4101.70 --> 4103.60]  this is the truth.
+[4104.52 --> 4105.68]  So there's nothing
+[4105.68 --> 4106.84]  for you to do
+[4106.84 --> 4108.22]  to gain your salvation
+[4108.22 --> 4109.42]  but believe that Christ
+[4109.42 --> 4110.20]  has accomplished
+[4110.20 --> 4110.88]  this already.
+[4112.10 --> 4113.02]  Grace is yours.
+[4113.16 --> 4114.66]  Forgiveness is yours.
+[4115.44 --> 4116.84]  Eternity is yours.
+[4117.14 --> 4118.12]  If you believe this
+[4118.12 --> 4118.74]  to be true,
+[4118.94 --> 4119.60]  there's no need
+[4119.60 --> 4120.78]  to worry about hell
+[4120.78 --> 4122.16]  because heaven
+[4122.16 --> 4122.80]  is already
+[4122.80 --> 4123.90]  the concrete reality
+[4123.90 --> 4124.46]  for you.
+[4125.26 --> 4126.52]  You're just not there yet.
+[4128.16 --> 4129.32]  So that's the first one.
+[4129.82 --> 4130.52]  Second answer,
+[4130.62 --> 4131.74]  what about those
+[4131.74 --> 4132.50]  who don't believe?
+[4132.62 --> 4133.60]  Should we not be talking
+[4133.60 --> 4134.46]  about this in church
+[4134.46 --> 4135.30]  more for those
+[4135.30 --> 4136.16]  who don't believe?
+[4137.02 --> 4138.04]  Why don't we talk
+[4138.04 --> 4138.78]  about this
+[4138.78 --> 4140.40]  in our mission?
+[4142.98 --> 4143.70]  If you're someone
+[4143.70 --> 4144.46]  who doesn't believe
+[4144.46 --> 4145.06]  here today
+[4145.06 --> 4146.54]  or if you're watching online,
+[4147.22 --> 4148.52]  should we not be bringing
+[4148.52 --> 4149.34]  this truth to you?
+[4149.34 --> 4151.38]  Why don't we talk
+[4151.38 --> 4152.16]  about this for you?
+[4154.36 --> 4155.16]  But if you're someone
+[4155.16 --> 4156.18]  who doesn't believe,
+[4156.98 --> 4158.16]  you don't need someone
+[4158.16 --> 4158.86]  to talk to you
+[4158.86 --> 4159.70]  about heaven and hell.
+[4160.54 --> 4161.44]  You need someone
+[4161.44 --> 4162.12]  to talk to you
+[4162.12 --> 4162.76]  about Jesus.
+[4165.98 --> 4166.90]  So some Christians,
+[4167.02 --> 4167.44]  some churches,
+[4167.60 --> 4168.20]  they use heaven
+[4168.20 --> 4168.98]  and they use hell
+[4168.98 --> 4169.54]  as their sort of
+[4169.54 --> 4170.40]  missional platform.
+[4170.72 --> 4172.08]  They love a good
+[4172.08 --> 4173.56]  turn or burn sermon.
+[4174.34 --> 4175.32]  You see it in the States
+[4175.32 --> 4176.08]  quite a bit actually.
+[4176.20 --> 4176.92]  It's creeping up here
+[4176.92 --> 4178.08]  in Canada a little bit too
+[4178.08 --> 4179.24]  but in the States
+[4179.24 --> 4180.02]  you see it all the time.
+[4180.10 --> 4180.84]  People on the corners
+[4180.84 --> 4181.46]  of intersections
+[4181.46 --> 4182.78]  with giant big signs
+[4182.78 --> 4183.76]  and they've got their bullhorn
+[4183.76 --> 4184.20]  and they're like,
+[4184.44 --> 4185.68]  repent or die
+[4185.68 --> 4186.46]  and they're just saying
+[4186.46 --> 4187.34]  it to crowds of people.
+[4188.40 --> 4189.56]  People use hell
+[4189.56 --> 4191.72]  as a missional motivator.
+[4193.30 --> 4194.16]  I just don't think
+[4194.16 --> 4194.76]  that's helpful
+[4194.76 --> 4195.66]  or effective
+[4195.66 --> 4196.88]  but people do do it.
+[4197.32 --> 4197.58]  Do do.
+[4199.18 --> 4200.62]  The problem with that
+[4200.62 --> 4203.44]  beyond the lack of tact
+[4203.44 --> 4204.92]  because let's face it,
+[4204.94 --> 4205.78]  that's pretty tactless
+[4205.78 --> 4208.26]  is that using hell
+[4208.26 --> 4209.44]  as a sin repellent
+[4209.44 --> 4210.36]  or vice versa,
+[4210.48 --> 4211.32]  using heaven
+[4211.32 --> 4212.22]  as sort of a carrot
+[4212.22 --> 4213.82]  to dangle in front of people
+[4213.82 --> 4214.92]  to get them to repent,
+[4215.62 --> 4216.78]  you're already guilty
+[4216.78 --> 4218.36]  of becoming a morality gospel.
+[4218.80 --> 4219.66]  And what I mean by that
+[4219.66 --> 4220.54]  is by using heaven
+[4220.54 --> 4221.34]  or hell
+[4221.34 --> 4222.10]  as a means
+[4222.10 --> 4223.52]  to convert to unbelievers
+[4223.52 --> 4224.24]  becomes about
+[4224.24 --> 4225.88]  what they must do
+[4225.88 --> 4228.16]  to gain some salvation
+[4228.16 --> 4229.56]  or to lose
+[4229.56 --> 4231.42]  out in eternity.
+[4231.42 --> 4234.24]  but this is not
+[4234.24 --> 4235.62]  about what we must do,
+[4235.74 --> 4236.96]  it's about a God
+[4236.96 --> 4237.42]  who did.
+[4239.90 --> 4241.00]  We need to be talking
+[4241.00 --> 4242.10]  about what God did
+[4242.10 --> 4242.74]  to save us.
+[4242.86 --> 4243.60]  It's personal,
+[4243.74 --> 4244.58]  not locational.
+[4244.96 --> 4245.96]  We aren't moral
+[4245.96 --> 4246.64]  because we're trying
+[4246.64 --> 4247.38]  to be good enough
+[4247.38 --> 4248.18]  to get into heaven
+[4248.18 --> 4248.80]  and avoid hell.
+[4248.86 --> 4250.10]  No, that's actually selfish.
+[4250.38 --> 4251.76]  That's selfishly motivated.
+[4252.14 --> 4252.78]  Your salvation
+[4252.78 --> 4253.74]  is not determined
+[4253.74 --> 4254.58]  by your actions,
+[4254.78 --> 4255.48]  it's determined
+[4255.48 --> 4256.18]  by Jesus.
+[4258.18 --> 4259.04]  Your salvation
+[4259.04 --> 4259.90]  has been granted
+[4259.90 --> 4260.74]  to you by Christ,
+[4260.82 --> 4261.18]  you just,
+[4261.42 --> 4262.72]  you need to accept it.
+[4264.00 --> 4264.86]  So our mission
+[4264.86 --> 4265.38]  as a church
+[4265.38 --> 4266.58]  is not to scare people
+[4266.58 --> 4267.92]  into living moral lives
+[4267.92 --> 4269.08]  because morality
+[4269.08 --> 4270.38]  is not the determiner
+[4270.38 --> 4271.08]  of your outcome.
+[4271.46 --> 4272.46]  Jesus is.
+[4273.88 --> 4275.66]  Morality is the response
+[4275.66 --> 4277.04]  of a faith in Christ,
+[4277.32 --> 4278.56]  a faith which saves,
+[4278.64 --> 4279.54]  a faith which works.
+[4279.60 --> 4280.20]  Remember James?
+[4281.42 --> 4282.10]  Our mission
+[4282.10 --> 4283.20]  is not to tell people
+[4283.20 --> 4284.20]  about heaven and hell,
+[4285.06 --> 4285.96]  it's to tell people
+[4285.96 --> 4287.20]  of the one who saves.
+[4287.46 --> 4287.86]  Our mission
+[4287.86 --> 4289.14]  is to tell the stories
+[4289.14 --> 4290.22]  of his saving grace
+[4290.22 --> 4291.32]  in our lives,
+[4291.42 --> 4292.16]  of the hope,
+[4292.38 --> 4292.94]  the salvation,
+[4293.10 --> 4293.42]  the love,
+[4293.50 --> 4294.58]  the joy that we find
+[4294.58 --> 4295.44]  in him.
+[4297.18 --> 4298.40]  We don't need heaven
+[4298.40 --> 4298.92]  or hell
+[4298.92 --> 4300.66]  as real as they are
+[4300.66 --> 4301.84]  as gimmicks
+[4301.84 --> 4303.00]  to share this news.
+[4303.46 --> 4304.60]  We just need
+[4304.60 --> 4306.14]  the gospel of Christ
+[4306.14 --> 4308.72]  and the Holy Spirit.
+[4310.68 --> 4311.64]  Fear of hell
+[4311.64 --> 4312.84]  just brings on anxiety
+[4312.84 --> 4313.74]  and the promise of heaven
+[4313.74 --> 4315.22]  might change a decision
+[4315.22 --> 4315.92]  or two, sure,
+[4315.92 --> 4317.60]  but the Holy Spirit
+[4317.60 --> 4318.94]  changes lives.
+[4319.40 --> 4320.48]  Jesus' gospel
+[4320.48 --> 4322.22]  changes lives.
+[4324.84 --> 4326.38]  Once Christ's gospel
+[4326.38 --> 4327.24]  message of grace
+[4327.24 --> 4327.94]  is understood
+[4327.94 --> 4328.62]  and accepted,
+[4329.00 --> 4330.84]  then faith abounds.
+[4331.60 --> 4332.98]  And once faith abounds,
+[4333.46 --> 4334.22]  then eternity
+[4334.22 --> 4337.24]  with the triune God
+[4337.24 --> 4338.52]  in eternal heaven
+[4338.52 --> 4340.44]  becomes certain.
+[4340.44 --> 4342.56]  And once heaven
+[4342.56 --> 4343.44]  becomes certain,
+[4343.86 --> 4344.64]  for those who believe,
+[4344.70 --> 4345.48]  hell doesn't even need
+[4345.48 --> 4346.36]  a whisper of thought.
+[4348.52 --> 4349.66]  We don't need
+[4349.66 --> 4350.58]  to think about heaven
+[4350.58 --> 4351.32]  or hell that often
+[4351.32 --> 4352.82]  because once we start
+[4352.82 --> 4354.02]  using heaven and hell
+[4354.02 --> 4354.90]  as a motivator
+[4354.90 --> 4355.74]  for good behavior
+[4355.74 --> 4356.68]  or an instrument
+[4356.68 --> 4357.40]  for mission,
+[4357.90 --> 4359.42]  we start missing
+[4359.42 --> 4360.46]  the gospel truth
+[4360.46 --> 4361.32]  found in Christ.
+[4362.48 --> 4363.66]  So Francis Chan,
+[4363.74 --> 4364.16]  he's right.
+[4364.16 --> 4367.40]  what happens here
+[4367.40 --> 4369.12]  affects this.
+[4372.64 --> 4374.16]  But it's not what we do
+[4374.16 --> 4375.26]  here that does.
+[4376.72 --> 4378.28]  It's who we put our faith
+[4378.28 --> 4379.44]  in here that does.
+[4381.52 --> 4382.76]  So hell exists
+[4382.76 --> 4383.88]  and so does heaven.
+[4384.70 --> 4385.84]  But the truth behind
+[4385.84 --> 4387.24]  all of that
+[4387.24 --> 4388.56]  is that Jesus
+[4388.56 --> 4390.20]  has already saved
+[4390.20 --> 4390.66]  the world
+[4390.66 --> 4391.64]  from the clutches of hell.
+[4391.64 --> 4394.10]  and all who believed
+[4394.10 --> 4395.02]  are saved.
+[4396.20 --> 4397.12]  Do we believe that?
+[4398.58 --> 4398.98]  Amen.
+[4399.08 --> 4399.46]  Let me pray.
+[4403.54 --> 4404.30]  Father God,
+[4404.80 --> 4405.66]  heaven, hell,
+[4406.86 --> 4408.62]  these things,
+[4408.74 --> 4409.46]  these constructs
+[4409.46 --> 4410.00]  are so hard
+[4410.00 --> 4410.56]  for us to wrap
+[4410.56 --> 4411.08]  our mind around.
+[4411.18 --> 4412.18]  You've given us pictures,
+[4412.36 --> 4412.44]  Lord.
+[4412.48 --> 4413.32]  You've given us symbols
+[4413.32 --> 4414.16]  which is wonderful
+[4414.16 --> 4415.34]  but to understand
+[4415.34 --> 4416.38]  truly what they are
+[4416.38 --> 4417.94]  we cannot fully grasp.
+[4418.90 --> 4419.26]  But Lord,
+[4419.30 --> 4419.84]  what we do know
+[4419.84 --> 4420.66]  is we want to be
+[4420.66 --> 4421.58]  in eternity with you.
+[4422.42 --> 4423.56]  And more than that,
+[4423.64 --> 4423.82]  Lord,
+[4423.96 --> 4424.96]  we know that you have
+[4424.96 --> 4425.86]  come and saved us.
+[4426.40 --> 4427.36]  We know that your son
+[4427.36 --> 4428.16]  has died for us,
+[4428.26 --> 4429.40]  that our sins are forgiven,
+[4429.64 --> 4430.54]  that you are gracious
+[4430.54 --> 4432.38]  and that we belong to you.
+[4432.50 --> 4433.32]  And because of that,
+[4433.38 --> 4433.52]  God,
+[4433.54 --> 4435.48]  we are so eternally grateful.
+[4436.58 --> 4438.04]  May our faith
+[4438.04 --> 4439.38]  rest in that truth.
+[4440.82 --> 4441.16]  And Lord,
+[4441.20 --> 4442.98]  as we know what that means
+[4442.98 --> 4443.64]  for eternity,
+[4443.82 --> 4444.98]  may that not become
+[4444.98 --> 4446.40]  something that causes us
+[4446.40 --> 4448.18]  to think that there's things
+[4448.18 --> 4449.00]  that we can do
+[4449.00 --> 4449.68]  for this.
+[4449.68 --> 4450.98]  but may we just simply
+[4450.98 --> 4453.16]  submit to your will
+[4453.16 --> 4453.96]  for our lives
+[4453.96 --> 4455.04]  to love your Lord,
+[4455.14 --> 4455.78]  to love you
+[4455.78 --> 4456.72]  with all our hearts,
+[4456.96 --> 4457.62]  to love our neighbor
+[4457.62 --> 4458.42]  as ourselves.
+[4458.54 --> 4459.68]  May selfishness disappear.
+[4460.44 --> 4461.08]  May we live
+[4461.08 --> 4462.22]  as you've called us to live
+[4462.22 --> 4463.06]  and may we live
+[4463.06 --> 4463.94]  knowing the promises
+[4463.94 --> 4465.12]  that you have given for us
+[4465.12 --> 4466.24]  are true in our lives
+[4466.24 --> 4467.48]  and that you reign
+[4467.48 --> 4468.52]  over us
+[4468.52 --> 4469.58]  for all of eternity.
+[4470.14 --> 4470.74]  Thank you, Lord.
+[4470.78 --> 4471.52]  We pray in your name.
+[4471.74 --> 4471.94]  Amen.
+[4471.94 --> 4472.04]  Amen.
+[4472.46 --> 4472.94]  Amen.
+[4472.94 --> 4473.94]  Amen.
+[4473.94 --> 4474.94]  Amen.
+[4474.94 --> 4476.18]  Amen.
+[4476.18 --> 4478.30]  Amen.
+[4478.30 --> 4478.64]  Amen.
+[4478.64 --> 4478.94]  Amen.
+[4479.24 --> 4479.72]  Amen.
+[4484.16 --> 4486.68]  Amen.
+[4487.96 --> 4488.62]  Amen.
+[4488.62 --> 4492.00]  Amen.
+[4494.80 --> 4495.22]  Amen.
+[4495.62 --> 4495.78]  Amen.
+[4496.14 --> 4496.16]  Amen.
+[4496.16 --> 4496.62]  Amen.
+[4496.66 --> 4497.14]  Amen.
+[4497.14 --> 4497.94]  Amen.
+[4497.94 --> 4498.18]  Amen.
+[4498.18 --> 4498.32]  Amen.
+[4498.32 --> 4498.70]  Amen.
+[4498.74 --> 4498.92]  Amen.
+[4498.92 --> 4499.30]  Amen.
+[4499.30 --> 4500.14]  Amen.
+[4500.14 --> 4500.26]  Amen.
+[4500.36 --> 4500.70]  Amen.
+[4500.70 --> 4501.68]  Amen.
+[4501.68 --> 4502.16]  Amen.
+[4502.18 --> 4502.42]  Amen.
+[4502.42 --> 4502.74]  Amen.
+[4502.74 --> 4502.80]  Amen.
+[4502.80 --> 4503.26]  Amen.
+[4503.26 --> 4504.90]  Amen.
+[4504.90 --> 4506.90]  Amen.
+[4534.90 --> 4536.90]  Amen.
+[4564.90 --> 4566.90]  Amen.
+[4594.90 --> 4596.90]  Amen.
+[4624.90 --> 4626.90]  Amen.
+[4654.90 --> 4656.90]  Amen.
+[4684.90 --> 4686.90]  Amen.
+[4714.90 --> 4716.90]  Amen.
+[4744.90 --> 4756.90]  See the stone is rolled away, behold the empty tomb.
+[4756.90 --> 4769.90]  Hallelujah, God be praised, is risen from the grave.
+[4769.90 --> 4775.90]  Hold and rocked in cross my salvation.
+[4775.90 --> 4781.90]  Pray an old war out of the need.
+[4781.90 --> 4788.90]  Now my soul cries out, Hallelujah.
+[4788.90 --> 4794.90]  Praise and honor unto Thee.
+[4794.90 --> 4802.90]  Praise and honor unto Thee.
+[4802.90 --> 4804.90]  Amen.
+[4804.90 --> 4805.90]  Amen.
+[4805.90 --> 4806.90]  Amen.
+[4806.90 --> 4807.90]  Amen.
+[4807.90 --> 4812.90]  And so go forth from this place today into your weeks, into the rest of your summer, into the start of school,
+[4812.90 --> 4816.90]  just knowing that Christ's death and resurrection covers you.
+[4816.90 --> 4818.90]  That you are free.
+[4818.90 --> 4821.90]  That the rugged cross gives you your salvation.
+[4821.90 --> 4829.90]  And that while heaven and hell are real, we can rely on the truth that we are saved in him.
+[4829.90 --> 4833.90]  Now please receive God's parting blessing on your lives.
+[4833.90 --> 4835.90]  Reading here from Numbers 6.
+[4835.90 --> 4837.90]  A priestly blessing.
+[4837.90 --> 4840.90]  The Lord bless you and keep you.
+[4840.90 --> 4844.90]  The Lord make his face shine upon you and be gracious to you.
+[4844.90 --> 4849.90]  The Lord turn his face toward you and grant you his peace.
+[4849.90 --> 4852.90]  And all of God's people say, Amen.
+[4852.90 --> 4870.90]  The Lord...
+[4870.90 --> 4880.90]  those are the days of enlightenment Declaring the word of the Lord.
+[4880.90 --> 4888.96]  And these are the days of your servant Moses, righteousness being restored.
+[4890.36 --> 4898.72]  And though these are days of great trials, of heaven and darkness and storm,
+[4899.16 --> 4906.42]  still hear the voice in the desert crying, preparing the way of life.
+[4906.42 --> 4913.02]  Behold the cloud, riding on the clouds, shining like the sun.
+[4913.56 --> 4919.64]  Have a trumpet call, lift your voice, hear of new leaders,
+[4920.16 --> 4924.12]  run as I am still salvation, God.
+[4925.44 --> 4932.88]  These are the days of Ezekiel, the dry bones becoming as flesh.
+[4932.88 --> 4941.44]  And these are the days of your servant David, building a temple of praise.
+[4942.18 --> 4950.74]  And these are the days of the harvest, the field are as one in your world.
+[4951.10 --> 4958.30]  And we are the laborers in your vineyard, the caring word of God.
+[4958.30 --> 4964.90]  Behold me, He comes, riding on the clouds, shining like the sun.
+[4965.44 --> 4971.44]  Have a trumpet call, lift your voice, hear of new leaders,
+[4971.92 --> 4975.68]  that out of my eyes and of salvation, God.
+[4975.68 --> 4991.34]  There's no God like Jehovah.
+[4991.34 --> 4992.24]  There's no God like Jehovah.
+[4992.82 --> 4999.04]  Behold me, God, riding on the clouds, shining like the sun.
+[4999.04 --> 5005.18]  Have a trumpet call, lift your voice, hear of new leaders,
+[5005.18 --> 5010.22]  that out of my eyes and of salvation, God.
+[5010.22 --> 5016.36]  Behold me, God, riding on the clouds, shining like the sun.
+[5016.36 --> 5022.36]  Have a trumpet call, lift your voice, hear of new leaders,
+[5022.36 --> 5027.28]  that out of my eyes and of salvation, God.
+[5027.28 --> 5031.78]  How does I am still salvation, God?
+[5031.78 --> 5050.16]  I was buried beneath my shame.
+[5052.92 --> 5059.00]  Who could carry that kind of weight?
+[5059.00 --> 5063.14]  It was my time.
+[5063.14 --> 5067.74]  Till I made you.
+[5067.74 --> 5076.48]  I was breathing the night alive.
+[5078.48 --> 5085.42]  All my failures I tried to hide.
+[5085.42 --> 5089.56]  It was my time.
+[5089.56 --> 5090.16]  Yeah.
+[5090.16 --> 5094.16]  Till I made you.
+[5094.16 --> 5099.16]  You called my name.
+[5099.16 --> 5102.68]  And I ran out of that rain.
+[5102.68 --> 5107.48]  Out of the darkness.
+[5107.48 --> 5111.32]  To your glorious day.
+[5111.32 --> 5138.12]  Now your mercy.
+[5138.12 --> 5138.30]  You're coming.
+[5138.30 --> 5138.98]  You're coming.
+[5138.98 --> 5139.12]  Hollaag.
+[5139.12 --> 5139.98]  Jam.
+[5139.98 --> 5140.38] zkowicz.
+[5140.66 --> 5140.86]  Big Ash。
+[5140.86 --> 5141.18]  Big Ash.
+[5141.18 --> 5142.18]  Big Ash.
+[5142.24 --> 5143.72]  Please remember all the kolk toazoge.
+[5143.72 --> 5144.26]  Get that good idea.
+[5144.26 --> 5144.96]  fathersed demons of history.
+[5145.32 --> 5146.26]  Have to get those.
+[5147.22 --> 5147.96]  Hey.
+[5147.96 --> 5148.28]  Collaborate.
+[5148.52 --> 5148.88]  Stay.
+[5148.88 --> 5149.18]  Stay.
+[5149.18 --> 5150.16]  Especially for the sweet glory.
+[5150.18 --> 5151.12]  Fillock in the natural process.
+[5151.36 --> 5151.42]  không운�� sixthAME.
+[5151.42 --> 5151.98] OLOGY.
+[5151.98 --> 5152.28]  Be omdat.
+[5152.28 --> 5152.96]  To triumph.
+[5153.00 --> 5153.48]  Jen من Beimonder.
+[5153.48 --> 5154.20] ben د!
+[5154.20 --> 5155.66]  Visiting Ultimately,
+[5157.82 --> 5159.48]  I go forward to grew-naire butarsi.
+[5159.54 --> 5160.50]  Not进す.
+[5160.86 --> 5162.58]  People for the most well.
+[5162.62 --> 5163.68]  To rent for this.
+[5163.68 --> 5164.68]  If you'reidi not.
+[5164.68 --> 5165.68]  Oh my residww-
+[5165.72 --> 5166.22]  씨가worms.